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The following update is focused on the three weeks I spent in Manila visiting various Viva Network partner projects (mostly to do with Street Children). “Tell me, I will forget.
Show me, I may remember.
Involve me, I will understand.?
- Chinese Proverb

The Street Children of Manila

Rob Lilwall
2007-12-01 14:55:17

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insightfully pointed out, the travesty of our age is not so much that a child dies every three seconds from preventable causes, but rather that a child dies every three seconds and we (rich) could stop it if we really wanted to (though of course we must acknowledge that there are other causes for poverty besides lack of money). If it is true that (in the west) we often "buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like?, perhaps we should bravely test out this Christmas whether rather it might indeed be more blessed to give than to receive??

Since Manila, I have cycled down the length of the Philippines to the southern island of Mindanao. I now nervously await the departure of a Muslim cargo ship bound for Indonesia sometime tomorrow. This update is already too long, and I apologize (a little) if it is a bit heavy. My next update will be all about life on the road in these Eastern Archipelagos as I make my way towards (apparently rather wild) Papua New Guinea.

Finally, on a much more cheerful note (and in case you do not already know), Al Humphreys (the guy who I cycled through Siberia with and who is in many ways responsible for getting me started on this whole variety show) has finally made it home to England and completed his 46,000 mile, 4 year, spectacular Round The World By Bike expedition ( www.roundtheworldbybike.com ). This quote is dedicated to his stupendous achievement, from which we can all learn.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.?
- Teddy Roosevelt

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why the government not take the street children in the philippines
if the government we don't have care to all street children!
why we take them in the abortion house..then we have to learn the all street children!!!

steph, 2008-05-20 19:45:26

wow your story amazes me . we are doing a project on how we could get our fellow classmates to get involved on how to help the children in philippines to receive education. I would love to have a video of your testimony about your experience in the philippines if i may or probably even more pictures would be nice .
My email is keziajoy@gmail.com. Thank you so much for sharing!

Joy, 2008-03-30 05:01:01