IP ASSISTANCE. Aileen Usob Hualde (left), executive director of the Women Organization of Rajah Mamalu Descendants (WORMD), prepares the slippers for distribution to IP children during an outreach program in South Upi, Maguindanao on Friday (August 9, 2019). WORMD is a United Nations’ Women partner organization. (Photo courtesy of WORMD)
SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao -- A total of 135 pupils of a far-flung primary school in Maguindanao have benefitted from an outreach program organized by the Women Organization of Rajah Mamalu Descendants (WORMD) and participated in by multi-sectoral groups here on Friday.
Aileen Usob Hualde, WORMD executive director, has partnered with the local government of South Upi, Army’s 6th Infantry (Redskin) Battalion, Army Warrior Angels and other civil society organizations to bring food and services to the Tumbaga Primary School in Sitio Linamas, Barangay Romongaob, South Upi.
WORMD is a United Nations’ Women partner organization.
The outreach program includes feeding, distribution of medicine, slippers, dental kits and free haircut for 135 pupils.
Those who brought goodies to the Indigenous Peoples (IP) children had to walk for several kilometers to reach the school that was named after Timuay Andres Angias Tumbaga.
Tumbaga, a tribal leader, donated the land for the one-hectare school compound. The Lumad Development Center Incorporated contributed the school main building while another classroom building was built by the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund through BALAY Non-Government Organization.
Hualde said it was her passion to extend help in whatever way to the less fortunate people of the upland towns of Maguindanao.
“It’s a personal passion, I am happy when I see children smile for what I have done,” Hualde said, adding that she was glad the soldiers and the Army Warrior Angels, an association of women composed of soldiers’ spouses, readily extended help.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1077513
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