In a spate of internet-related crimes, many parents have shown concern for their children's safety online. However, not all is cause for worry. Someone had this brilliant idea of using the internet for tapping into the kind hearts of individuals who are only too willing to help. Not all is evil on the internet.
To assuage the net donors that the site is not bogus, photos and videos of the schoolchildren are constantly updated and donors are sent assurances that their hard-earned money goes to good use. Because of these concerned netizens, 34 poor Christian and Muslim kids in Zamboanga City are going to school this year as scholars and thousand more will benefit from receiving books, use free computers and study in private.
The Kristiyano Islam Peace Library (KRIS) was founded by Armand Dean Nocum to help poor kids pursue their dreams of an education. He aims to empower these children to become independent and productive citizens after formal schooling. This development should be welcome news to Mark Zuckerberg who envisioned Facebook as an online dating site. Proves to show that a worthy cause will always draw in financial support. Nocum's advocacy, in its ten year existence has received at least US 1,500 , new and used computers and books and money from his friends and relatives from here and all over the globe. The funds were used to complete the KRIS Library, construct restrooms for the female scholars as well as computer and livelihood rooms and the improve educational facilities because their parents can't afford to send them to school.
Not to venture too far, but just recently, the Malate Catholic School Batch '76 has been active in soliciting the support of friends and classmates living abroad to help put some disadvantaged children through school with pledges of financial support....
Now, isn't that heart-warming?
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