With the objective of reaching out and giving back to the community, Michael Tuazon, Head of Legal for Reed Elsevier Philippines (REPH) along with other REPH employees has conducted its very first RE Cares activity sessions for the year entitled “Sinag ng Pag-asa Library Visit - Tutorial Sessions” at the Payatas Community, Quezon City in March 2016.
This monthly activity will be in partnership with REPH’s partner foundation, the Kapatid Kita Mahal Kita Foundation (KM). KM believes in community-building in the most poverty-stricken areas. Through the people’s kind-heartedness, children of the poorest of the poor are sent to schools and become useful members of their respective communities.
The scholars supported live in a barangay which lies within an open dumpsite known as the Payatas open dumpsite. It is the largest open dumpsite in the Philippines and remains a very poor area with most of the families making a living off the garbage they collect. To help uplift the children’s condition and with the hope of giving them a better future, REPH now sponsors more than 100 kids who live in Payatas. Besides sponsoring the children’s academic financial needs (e.g. tuition fees, uniform, books, etc.), REPH likewise helped in making into a reality the “Sinag ng Pag-asa Library” (literally meaning Ray of Hope Library) which was inaugurated last November 2015 so the scholars have a place to study and do their research after class. It is stocked with reference books and also is equipped with several computers with internet access. It is where we conducted our tutorial class on basic English sentence construction and grammar.
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