21 GFI boxes recieved

Jocelyn Robles, GFI Mindanao Outreach Coordinator, confirmed the arrival of 21
boxes from GFI as of October 28, 2011. Herein the number of the boxes 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160,161,162,163,165,167,169,170, 171, 172. The school teachers from Landan National High School along with some volunteers helped in the assorting of books and other educational resource materials and transportation to benefit the following:

1. Maligo Day Care School

2. Maligo Elementary School

3. Maligo Public Library

4. Landan National High School

Jocelyn also sponsored for the creation of a general turn over tarpaulin that will be used for each beneficiary. Formal turn over ceremony photos will be submitted to GFI once available.

Assorted educational materials

Some photos of the first 9 boxes recieved by GFI Mindanao Coordinator as of October 10, 2011. The assorted educational materials will be turned over to the following beneficiaries:

1. Landan National High School

2. Maligo Elementary School

3. Maligo Day Care School

4. Maligo Public Library

Thanks so much for all GFI donors!

May 2011 shipment

Deatils from this link for the shipment of 20 boxes to the GFI Mindanao Outreach Schools

http://galingfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/06/ces-alberto-tony-molina-and-bernadette.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26i6dukM2p0

April 2011 shipment

Details in this link

http://galingfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/04/gfi-ships-2-balikbayan-boxes-full-of.html

February 2011 shipment

Details in this link:

http://galingfoundation.blogspot.com/2011/04/galing-foundation-inc-ships-donated.html

Thank you donors and volunteers.

LNHS Youth Leaders

GFI Youth Leadership Awardees with school principal and librarian

Landan National High School

School principal Mrss. Ninfa Macabenta; Librarian Renante Balleno and GFI School Coordinator Josseth Ante

Documentation done by Jocelyn Robles prior to her trip to Atlanta

Maligo Elementary School students enjoying toys from GFI donors

Toys that students do not have at home but now they can enjoy it from their school after their reading time.

Thanks to the generous donors of GFI.

Maligo Elementary School Mission

Maligo Elementary School Vision

More dictionaries, reading books, text books and school supplies are on its way to GFI Mindanao partners

GFI shipped 5 boxes of educational resource materials last September 4, 2010.

Beneficiaries:
1. Maligo Day Care School
2. Maligo Elementary School
3. Maligo Public Library
4. Landan National High School
5. Kipalkuda Elementary School

Details on the shipment can be accessed from this link:
http://galingfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-dictionaries-reading-books-text.html

Picture science books for the GFI assisted schools

During the GFI visit to the different schools last May, the teachers expressed to the Mission Team that they are in need of science picture books. They have shown us their impovised visual of body parts and their functions used during science class.

The above books will benefit the following schools:

1. Maligo Elementary School - Polomolok, South Cotabato

2. Landan National High School - Polomolok, South Cotabato

3. Kipalkuda Elementary School - Maitum, Sarangani Province

Donations for big visual books for science is very much welcomed!

Dictionary for schools

One of the expressed needs of the different schools during the GFI Mission Trip 2010 is dictionary for the school library and also pocket sized dictionaries for the students. The dictionaries above will be sent to the different schools assisted, 1 big dictionary and 2 pocket sized dictionaries for each kind per school. The schools will be asked for feedback if they like it and more will be sent later.

This project dubbed as ....help stump illiteracy, Buy Me A Dictionary (BMAD) was conceptualized by Bernard Turner after talking to students during the visit to the schools. The pocket sized dictionaries were bought from Barnes & Noble, tax free. Upon knowing the concept behind buying bulk dictionaries in the future for Galing Foundation, Inc...the Barnes & Noble store in Cobb Parkway decided to donate 4 medium sized boxes of educational materials.

Everyone is enjoined to participate in this project...dictionaries are not necessarily bought brand new but at least published within the last 5 years.

Barnes & Noble Booksellers book donation

Barnes & Noble Booksellers donated 4 medium sized boxes of educational materials for the Galing Foundation Inc. on August 13, 2010.

Thank you Barnes & Noble!

Galing Foundation, Inc (GFI) 2010 Mission Trip to evaluate the 5-year school library development plan for Landan National High School

GFI's intervention with this school started in 2008. The school administration is very supportive to the project of library development that they lobbied for the construction of their school library given the influx of book donations made possible by donors and supporters of GFI in Atlanta.

The school is being seen a a model of good leadership practices for outsorucing and establishing external partnership to support the development of their school. The book shelves used in the library are the project of the Parent and Teachers Association (PTA) of the school.

The school adopted the the Youth Leadership Award and Best in English Award in 2009. In 2010, they started to have their Summer Arts Workshop that will form part of the annual GFI's Filipino Children's Arts Exhibit here in Atlanta.

The school used the Dewey Decimal System for their library indexing, cataloging, classification. It is very impressive that the teachers and the school teachers are utilizing the educational resources sent to them to imrpove the learning skills of their students. It is the first high school in the province of South Cotabato with support from an international non-profit organization like the GFI.

The school designated a school librarian to oversee and implement rules and regulations on the use of their school library. The school is also sharing their educational resource materials with the barangay council of Landan.The school has only one old edition of dictionary and the teachers truly expressed the need to have more dictionaries and encylopedia that are at least 5 years old edition/publication.

Other resource materials needed are the folllowing:

1. Mini-classroom globes

2. English, Science and Math resource books

3. National Geographic Magazines as part of their general reference and other world news resource materials e.g. Time Magazine

4. Visual aid materials for teachers especially in the Science and English subjects

5. Artwork materials

6. Music materials

7. College based reference materials for students from the community that have gone to colleges/universities and are spending their weekends back home for weekend research oppotunities

8. Maps and geographical visual aids

Thanks so much for the leadership of Maam Nemfa Macabenta, our GFI school coordinate Joseth A. Malida, the students, the teachers and the parents association.