Kind Words to End the Week

It's always nice to end the (work) week on a positive note. So here's a very nice comment we received from Ms. Joanne Tupas- Parsons on the most recent library we inaugurated at Cuyapo, Central School in Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija.

Thank you for your kind words, Ms. Joanne! It's always great reading inspirational messages of thanks like yours.

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Have a GREAT week end ahead!

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Good News on a Monday

Monday isn't always the most popular day of the week, but we're happy to report that we're coming to you with good news today.

As if last week we didn't already receive a great number of donations, on Thursday, Ms. Kathleen Yao in behalf of 21st Century Steel Mill came to our office and dropped off their donation of children's magazines worth  Php112,000! 

The magazines that were donated to us were Asian children's magazines with articles written by other kids from different parts of Asia. The magazines also included lots of colorful art work and creative writing submissions.

We're sure that these magazine donations will add life and more color to the new libraries we're opening in the upcoming months.

Another good thing we have to share is that we also partnered with Bagong Kulturang Pinoy Inc, a non-profit for literacy! We signed a MOA over the weekend with Ms. Alice Quilicot, their Executive Director. The reading seminar conducted by them will take place some time in October. 

And finally, we're having a fundraiser this Friday! 

AHON Foundation will be at Kaya Natin's R18: Kaya Natin Kung Kakayanin Mo Rin voters education concert on Friday, September 28. We will be selling drinks, the proceeds of which go to AHON Foundation. You can also sign up to be a volunteer at our booth during the event.  

The concert will be at Amoranto Theater in Quezon City, and gates open at 6pm. Bands like 6Cyclemind, Never the Strangers, Peryodiko, Join the Club, Flying Ipis, and Circa will be playing. To find out more, here's the Event Page on Facebook. 

We hope to see you there! Don't forget to drop by our booth! :-) 

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A Letter of Thanks We Received

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

We felt it would be nice to share a letter of thanks we received from Reynard A. Andaya, Principal of Tagudin Central Elementary School in Tagudin, Ilocos Sur. The AHON Library in Tagudin Central School, Ilocos Sur was completed by the community and inaugurated in the first quarter of this year. You can view some pictures of the library here. Messages like these are the additional cherry on top of the work we do!

New insight or perspective and understanding of the world around are gained through reading. Readers can apply the insight in everyday life or as or as a way of building up on the knowledge that already encompasses their minds and enriches their lives. We can never underestimate the amount of different things that can be learned from reading.

In the educational landscape, how can we attain our goal of quality education through reading? One answer is through a functional Learning Resource Center or library.

Tagudin Central School could only once dream about building a library that was fully functional. We were content with our humble collection of books donated by various benefactors of our school. But luck knocked on our door when AHON Foundation, together with Atty. Meljohn Verzosa visited the school and gave the whole staff hope and inspiration to develop our existing library to become a complete and fully functional one. Through the recommendations of AHON Foundation were were motivated to work cooperatively, tapping the support of the stakeholders for the development of our school library. In order to to make it child-friendly and conducive to learning, the walls were painted with colorful murals, and tables, chairs, and bookshelves were constructed and painted to complete our library. All these were such great manifestations of commendable cooperation as well as and initiative of both internal and external stakeholders. 

They say "Work on what you lack, give your best, and the best comes back." We were not disappointed with the outcome of the fruit of our cooperative labor that we were able to reap. All this was truly made possible by our passionate local chief executive Honorable Roque S. Verzosa Jr., our supportive District Supervisor, Dr. Buenafe D. Medrano, Atty. Meljohn I. Verzosa, and Ms. Mary Herbel Santiago, AHON Foundation's representative in the work we undertook. 

On behalf of the Tagudin Central School teaching staff, PTA Officers, Barangay Officials, parents, and pupils we would like to extend our heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the AHON Foundation Board of Trustees headed by Mr. Harvey S. Keh and of course the energetic program officer Ms. Mary Herbel Santiago. We can never thank you more.

Sincerely,
Reynard A. Andaya
Principal, Tagudin Central School

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As Always, Thank You For Your Book Donations!

We had a wonderful start of the week as on Monday, we received a book donation from Mrs. Mari Delfin! She donated several bundles of preloved books...

As well as brand new children's story books! Now don't get us wrong, preloved books always make us smile. But we loved these brand new books just as much.

Which is why again, it made us very happy when Ms. Claire Carolino, a college student taking up communication arts, personally dropped off these brand new story books yesterday morning before she went to school.

In terms of book donations, it has been a great week for us! We hope everyone else is having a great week as well.

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Thank you for the Book Donations!

It was almost as though it rained books on us this week since for two days in a row we received book donations from two supporters of AHON Foundation!

Ms. Rosemary Jota contacted us a few weeks ago to ask what kind of books we accepted for our libraries. After a few days of back and forth correspondence we settled on a date to pick up her donation which was quite literally a whole car trunk's worth.

Ms. Jota says that while conducting general cleaning in the house she grew up she realized how much books they actually owned, and how these still could be put into good use. She donated several encyclopedia sets, stacks of general knowledge books, more than a couple of children's literature novels, and over a dozen story books.

The day after we picked up Ms. Jota's donation, Cid Jacobo, a long time volunteer of AHON foundation, dropped off a box worth of children's reference books. According to Cid these reference books were his favorite as a child, and he learned a lot from these in the past. He was even able to identify one specific book that he used to take with him everywhere when he was younger.

These books will find new homes in the three libraries that we are launching next week in Nueva Ecija. They will surely be utilized well in the new libraries of Entablado Elementary School in Cabiao, Sto. Cristo Elementary School in San Isidro, and Cuyapo Central School in Cuyapo.

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