Save Our Souls
SOS children learn to appreciate visual arts
From left are Eileen Benedicto,
Ana Marie Gomez and Pia Nava Gueco
* Currently, there are 107 adopted children and the youngest is 2 ½ years old and the eldest is 18 years old
Last May 31, 2007 , kids from the Save Our Souls Children Village have been given a privilege to learn how to paint which was sponsored by the Iloilo Rotary Club.
It's me trying to join the art class with
Mayette Alegario at my back.
The learning workshop was held at the Museo de Iloilo from May 31 until June 2, 2007. They were accompanied by their village educator Roquita Batogon and their instructor was Norman Posecion, one of the professional artists of Museo de Iloilo.
There were 24 students who got lucky in this once-in-a-lifetime experience, which is to learn and appreciate arts. The primary purpose of the Rotary Club was to promote art awareness to the children of the SOS.
Norman Posecion, Roquita Batogon
and a mother
The organizers from the club who were present were Emma Nava, Rotary district governor nominee for 2008, Ana Marie Gomez, Mayette Alegario, Eileen Benedicto from STI, and Pia Nava Gueco.
Actually, SOS started in Austria to help the less fortunate children so they could be successful. In the Philippines, it started in 1967 at Lipa Batangas. There are seven villages present here in the Philippines and the youngest is in Zarraga, Iloilo.
Emma Nava with the children of SOS.
Currently, there are 107 adopted children and the youngest is 2 ½ years old and the eldest is 18 years old.
There are 12 houses where there live. There are 10 children in each house and they are accompanied by a house mother.
The houses sit on a 16,000 sq. meter wide lot and it's like a community inside a community.