Assisting people in 3 stages of life.

• In America, we have lived the American dream.• Our goal is to share our riches with those around the

world.

• Our first cause, stages, will highlight people in 3 stages

of life in the Philippines.

Stage One-Preschoolers

• In the province of Negros Occidental in the Philippines,preschoolers struggle to get an education.

Look at what they consider a school… Do you see AC, a floor, or anything *modern* about this

school?

Think of the American preschooler.

• Do they travel up a mountain with a chair every day to get to school?

• Do they share one textbook with the whole class,along with other school supplies?

• Do they only get fed once a week, instead of 5 days a week by the school?

• Do they have teachers with only elementary level education teaching them?

• These kids do. We complain about going to school, yet these kids want to go. They need to go if they are to suceed in life, and prevent them from entering stage 2.

A 1st hand account from a member of International Outreach during a trip to the

Philippines.• Teacher Helen explains what “Bayanihan” is…helping each

other to build this school. Our program has 2 sessions: 3-4 yr olds in the morning and 5-6 yr olds in the afternoon. We have books… Phonics, Math, English, Science, Pilipino, Religion. (Show us your books..and does each child have a book?).

• We only have one book (embarrassed laughter) for the whole class. I write the text on the board and the children copy it…we are not like the “private” schools.(Helen shows Math, Science & Religion books). I (Helen) am a high school graduate. Mrs Sonia is an elementary school graduate with training gained

• from different teaching “seminars”. (Sister Bebie explains…)

• (You Helen, what do you need for your school?).• Lots of things! We need toys, books,(she smiles longingly)…

• [Teacher Helen is an outspoken school teacher who has relentlessly

• pushed for better conditions for her school children.]

Our feeding program is once a week…if we had moneywe would do it more than once a week, maybe 3 or 4 times.

We have underweight kids who come to school without breakfast.People are poor in this area…

• How can we help such small children, whom are halfway around the world?

Stage 2, The Juveniles

• As is the case in numerous places of the world, juveniles of Cebu,Philippines whom commit minor crimes are subject to the abuse of the real criminals in prison.

• If a minor steals here, it’s a fine, possible ban from the store, juvenile detention, etc.

• There, they spend time in jail.

• And they would not be spending time with just your low level security prisoners, but any level is fair game.

• They spend time with druggies, murderers, rapists, sex offenders, etc.

• There is no chance of these teens maintaining the little innocence they have left here.

Why is an 11 yr old behind iron bars?

Diosel, the minor in the previous slide.

• Diosel was the 3rd minor highlighted in the UNICEF documentary “Bunso” which highlighted the abuse these minors are subject to in prison.

• Before his prison time, Diosel would have to sing like a beggar on the streets for money to feed his siblings and him.

• He was sent to prison because his siblings and himself were hungry, and he stole from a store. The owner wanted to let it slide, but his father insisted he go to prison.

• The amount stolen was a very tiny amount by Filipino standards, yet his own father, too lazy to raise his child, and too lazy to feed his own child, opted for prison time.

• In a follow up to the documentary, it was discovered he was living off the streets once again. IF he is still alive, he would be around 15 yrs old.

There is no halfway house.

• These minors are in jail because there is no halfway house for minors in the Philippines sponsored by the government. Furthermore, only those of adult age have rehab centers.

• This leaves minors subject to abuse, rape, and numerous other things resulting in the development of bad habits, and a sure return to prison.

• These children have no one to love them. All they know how to do is survive, not how to live.

• Only the older prisoners get food, the minors are left to fend for themselves, this is because in a everybody for themselves atmosphere, the bigger person always wins.

Think of the American Teenager

• Do they rejoice when it rains since it gives them a chance to take a bath and wash their clothes?

• Do they go straight to a prison not knowing if their cellmates are a murderer or drug addict?

• Do they have parents who do not care about them well?• Does no one love them?• Do they not have a rehabilitation center to put them on the right path

should they make a mistake?• Are they food insecure?• All of the above are true for these juveniles of the Philippines. As of

2004, 52,000 minors in the Philippines were subject to these conditions.

• These children want to put this life behind them, and start fresh.

• Father Vic Labao, a diocesan priest, is doing his best to combat this growing problem, but how much can he do without funds?

• He is starting a halfway house.

In it he attempts to rehab the teenagers, rather than put them in a

regular prison.

He gives them a work ethic.

He gives their life meaning.

He gives them a second chance at life.

At the halfway house,there is no intruder alert.

• How do we help juveniles halfway across the world?

Stage 3, the Abandoned Elderly

• What happens to the old who do not have children to care for them?

• What happens to the old whose children choose to become a nun or priest?

• They are abandoned…

Think of the elderly in America…

• Do they know someone will care for them in the future?

• Are they in a nursing home?• Do they have family to look after them?• Do they have social security? A pension?• DO THEY HAVE SOMEONE WHO WILL LOOK

AFTER THEM?• These people do not.

All these people want is for someone to care for them. Someone to make their last moments in this

world bearable.

The Carmelite Nuns have an idea…

• Build a home called Our Lady of Guadalupe, where these people could do just that…. But where is the money to conduct such a project?

How do we help abandoned seniors halfway around the world?

So, how do we deal with these 3 problems?

• The uneducated child.• The jailed and neglected teenager.• The abandoned senior.

We do something about it.

STAGES CONCERT 2008Featuring 3 of a Kind

STAGES CONCERT 2008

• Tickets are $10• Raffle are $5• Last year, the 2007 concert raised over $20,000.• Even more supplies were raised with Operation

Backpack at Simbang Gabi.

STAGES CONCERT 2008

• On September 14th, 2008, at St Paul the Apostle, 3pm, the International Outreach Committee will hold the 2nd annual Stages Concert.

• The concert will feature the singing trio of 3 Of A Kind.

• ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE DIVIDED EVENLY AND SENT TO ASSIST STAGE 1, 2, and 3.

What is 5 dollars to you?

• Lunch• Coffee• Wendys• Keeping a child in school.• Giving a teen a 2nd chance.• Giving an abandoned senior closure.

But can a concert really make a difference?

• Hrrrrm…… • $4 keeps one of those school huts open for a

month…. HEY! Some cars have 12 gallon tanks, 1 fill up=funding a school for a year.

• More money is needed for Father Vic Labao, a Diocesian priest trying to open a halfway house, to rehab the minors of Stage two, 9 cents keeps them out of prison.

• Money to stage 3 would fund the creation of the Our Lady Of Guadalupe home in which those abandoned seniors could live out their life, under the care of the Carmelite nuns.

What is 50 dollars to you?

• A video game.• Shoes• Jeans• A fill up at the gas station.• Keeping a preschooler in school.• Teaching a teenager how to live.• Getting someone to care for an abandoned

senior.

Mother Theresa once said…

• We are all drops in an ocean. However, the ocean would be different without that drop.

• Together our drops can be a lake.

So many people say that…

• When given the opportunity, they would help that person in need.

• But how many people actually do something? • Here’s the stage, the lights are on you.• So prove it.

Music By

• Common• Lupe Fiasco• Nickelback• 3 of a Kind