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A month of riches [2014-06-21]

Donations are the lifeblood of Reneal IEO, enabling us to serve students and teachers in schools overseas.  The last few weeks have thus been so invigorating, as we’ve received contributions of both money and equipment that we will now send on to create new opportunities for those schools. 

Through a connection with our former church, Alum Rock United Methodist Church in San Jose, CA, we received a donation of 20 used flat panel monitors and 15 keyboards.  Monitors are always problematic in the Philippines.  Many schools have old CRT monitors that are flickering or dim or just don’t work at all anymore.  This renders still-functional computers unusable, since monitor costs are very high relative to schools’ small budgets.  We now have the opportunity to “rescue” twenty computers from this fate!

Our current church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Fremont, CA, just had their annual yard sale.  For the last few years, they have carefully set aside items for Reneal IEO to send to the Philippines.  We work with our church there, United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Compostela, to get these items to people in need.

Rogie, our valued colleague who works at Aboitiz Equity Ventures in Cebu City, just e-mailed that AboitizLand is gathering up a set of used desktop computers, monitors, keyboards, and mice to donate to Reneal IEO for our 2015 Philippines projects.  For 2014, the Aboitiz group of companies donated a total of 10 laptops, 7 desktops, 3 monitors, 1 keyboard, and 1 mouse.  The computers usually need some repair, but thankfully our intern Jade has a magic touch when it comes to coaxing old computers back to life.  Not all were repairable, but most were.  What a wonderful bounty of equipment that we were able to give new life to in schools!

One of our other activities is collecting and sending vocational educational supplies.  Two of my work colleagues just donated several large bags of fabric for the high school students who are specializing in garment-making.  And the real gem is a gift of sixty new “French curves”, plastic implements which are used by the students to make sewing patterns.  Right now, an entire class must share a small number of hand-made wooden curves, so this is going to make a huge difference for them!

We offer a big THANK YOU to our donors and supporters.  We couldn’t fulfill the mission of Reneal IEO without you!