BSA volunteers

Here's Sir Jon Mannion and Ms. Kat Pauso. They are the NGO coordinators. 

Livelihood

We noticed that most of the livelihood or business that they put up are sari-sari stores in which they sell the basic necessities in their community or the nearby houses. Lola Angelita was one of our interviewee told us that she put up a sari-sari store for her to have hobby and to earn even a small amount of money but some says that it helps them to earn money for their everyday expenses. in my point of view, it is a good idea that they have this kind of business so that they have something to provide for their families.

BSA volunteers

This picture above was taken during the first immersion day of the team in DLS-CSB with their professor Ms. Jennylyn Villena.

Map to Barangay San Antonio

Here is the map on how to go at Barangay San Antonio, Pasig City!

If you are from Manila, you can take LRT or jeepney going to EDSA. Then, you ride on the MRT bound to Shaw Boulevard. When you are already there, you can take a ride on a jeepney going to Pasig, Palengke or you can just walk going to Barangay San Antonio. But we recommend that you take a ride 'cause it's quite far from the MRT Station to Barangay San Antonio.If you see the Red Ribbon, turn left. Then, you will see Mini Stop. You turn right and then, you pass on the first street. Finally, you're there at the Barangay San Antonio, City Hall. The Learning Center is located at the second floor of the building. :))

kids in BSA center

We asked them to create their own Valentine's cards. The center has provided them with coloring materials and we provided them the papers they are going to use. On the picture above, the kids were thinking what to write and how to start their valentines card. :)

The kids were busy making their valentines card while their facilitator Aileen and Steph were watching them. And they are actually shy when they caught us looking at their works.

Here's a boy doing his valentines card seriously and trying his best to accomplish it.

And finally! here were the finished products of the kids! isn't it nice? The kids in BSA really has creative minds. :)

In the other corner (pictures above), Dhanica, Sharmie and Krisha were teaching the kid how to make accessories out of the magazine pages.

Then, here's a little girl learning how to do the beads out of magazine.

and in another corner, there are boys playing monopoly with their facilitator Aileen.

you can see in this picture a boy, he's the banker in the game.

The kids love to make a pose when taking a picture of them. :)

Finally, they are done with their activities so its time for their break or play time. :)

And as you can see with the pictures, kids are enjoying doing things like paper works, alternative accessories, playing board games, and playing educational games on the computer. :) Some games that they are playing is the Book Worm, which is a spelling game. You have to form a word from random letters. Another game is the Memory game; you have to remember where the two identical pictures are placed then once you found it, you click on it. :)

Animoto Test with pics

PSP in the Barangay

A boy plays with his PSP in Malvar

Labels! or Tags

Health and sanitation, housing, work, transportation, entertainment, youth activities, environment, peace and order, gender, jon, test, energy and utilities, 

Gender issues

What an inspiration! :)

We were exploiting the informal settler's area in Barangay San Antonio to be able to witness or see their situation in their area. As we pass through each houses, this old lady caught our attention (See the above picture) while she is busy with her business "sari-sari store". One thing that pops into our mind when we saw her, who are with her to help her? Then, we started to ask her with an interview. 

While we're interviewing her.. (See below picture).

She's Lola Angelita and she's 67 yrs old. Lola Angelita has been living in the area for more than 54 years. She also have her own business, which is a sari-sari store, its maximum income is 1,000 pesos. She have 10 children and all of them have their own family now. Lola Angelita is already old yet, she strives hard for herself and doesn't want to ask anything to her children if she could still manage to work and do something for her to survive anything.

Youth Activities

Past Time (Caught in action!)

While conducting an interview in the area, we heard the teenagers, no more on adults talking about the children's favorite past time place which is the gymnasium. After the children had finished helping in the house chores, they go there to play and have fun by playing there favorite sports. They used to be "magbabarkada" in their childhood. They said that every afternoon between 12-4 they're always there to play with their playmates. They usually play the basketball and sometimes volleyball. They play with each other that will serve as their bonding times with their buddies.

So we thought of visiting the area and fortunately, we spotted them playing basketball. (See the pictures)

We weren't able to capture a nice shot because the building was contradicting the sun's light.

 These are the pictures taken by our group while they are playing basketball.
While taking the shots, there were audiences telling us that they wanted to have them pictured too. But we weren't able to take pictures of them due to dead battery of the camera we we're using.

Luckily, we were able take these pictures after the battery died. :) They were using the whole court to enjoy the game with their buddies. And they were really counting the scores of the 2 teams. They were not fighting in the game, they were more on really enjoying it by laughing at each others joke and etc. They do not actually take the game seriously they take more on bonding and enjoying everyone's company. :)

Whoops! There goes the ball! Counted or not?  Ready for rebound! :)

Transportation

Introducing the E-JEEP! 

The first time we got in Barangay San Antonio we saw 2 E-jeeps that was parked beside the Barangay Hall. We were really shocked and at the same time amazed that Barangay San Antonio have these very environmental friendly vehicles that will help the residence from the air that was polluted by the chemical it brings.

E-jeep is a vehicles that can be used by charging in into a electric socket, using the power from the biodegradable waste. It's like charging your cellphone into the socket. It helps the environment by preventing polluted fumes that causes air pollution.

Environment

A clean environment is a must to have a healthy lifestyle!

In this barangay, the some place has lots trashes but some are also clean. In this picture, we can see that one is clean and the other one is dirty. Well maybe it depends on the person who lives near that place on how they take care of their area. Some areas are clean while others are dirty, that's why most of the people in the community get sick. We should start helping the people in the community to make them live in a more enticing environment. Be the change,start helping now at BSA community located in Pasig City!:)

Housing

A nice shelter is one of the basic needs of a person. 

The houses there are like apartments made for hundreds of people. Some had more than 2 families or more inside a house.Their living is not that easy because they only have small rooms, but they don't have other choice but to stay. As a concerned citizen, shouldn't we be helping our neighbors and the ones who are in deep need? Come and join us at Barangay San Antonio, Pasig City and be part of the volunteer work!

Peace and order

In a barangay, discipline is important to maintain peace and order in the community.
Good thing that Barangay San Antonio had this..

While we're exploring the barangay, we passed by a sign which serve as the rules in their barangay. As said by the people we had interviewed there that the rules are being followed by most of the people.

Children in BSA

Wonderful Children

They're having fun taking pictures. Either a person, place, things or anything! And well, that's a good thing at an early age.  How wonderful it is. Left to right: Johnce, Justin, Allen, 

Jericho, Angelo and Luke having fun with us while we're about to start the tutorial.

On our way to the Internet shop for the activity. There they go again, pose! 

At the back, we're having sort of a meeting on how to start. Oh well, hoping that it'll be great!

Uh-oh! Seems like we had a problem with the memory card reader. The computer couldn't read it. We can't begin because we badly need the pictures for this activity. (20 mins after..)

Finally, we're done with the problem! Here's Raizza, teaching the children on how to upload pictures on the blog and put something about it. Go Raizza! (Don't mind the face .)

Nice! We think that they'd understand Raizza's instructions, or they're just fast learners? Well done kids! Here's a picture of Jericho doing it by himself.

Jericho takes a picture of Lanz taking a picture of Jericho taking a picture (ad nausium) Thanks Sir Paul for the Canon and Jon for the Nikon. I think the Nikon won.

 Chris in the back alley at Luke's House

Bantay Chris in BSA

This is the house of Julius in Malvar Street.  RJ and Chris guide the ISM and GIN visitors around their neighborhood.