We will be partnering with a local university to teach construction skills so that these young people from these communities can begin rebuilding their lives, their communities, their homes, their community buildings. The university had been destroyed but some structures still stood. In a classroom, we found students who lived through the typhoon, ready to engage their minds. We spoke to them – you would never have known what they had to live through. Some students were still missing... almost 4 months later.
Faculty offices had been destroyed, so, they simply moved their offices where natural sunlight would shine in – simple enough, that just meant moving their desks a little closer to where a wall once stood. 5 months later... still no electricity. A generator was being used to supply electricity to their laptops and phones.
Books and papers lay on bushes and trees, still drying them out in hopes they could be used again.
The head of the school, still emotional about all that had happened. She shared that in her heart she didn’t think they could restart the school. Looking at the destroyed campus, not knowing where all of the students were, it was too difficult... too heart wrenching... but when she saw students start coming back, she knew, if the kids came, then we must rebuild. We must go on. We must. But you could see the emotion in her eyes just how hard it was... it is... So, classes will official begin in a few short months.
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