A Thank You Letter from Taberna NHS

I asked Dara a few days ago to look for the old letters and journals from our students so that I can post it here. That way, the JamJar Project supporters can read for themselves about the lives of the students while they were still being tutored and while they were already studying in CITE.


While I was browsing through the letters, I saw one that I immediately wanted to post. I am used to reading the letters from the students, and I immensely enjoy reading their stories about their first few days in Cebu. But this letter came from the teachers and the administrator of Taberna National High School. A new read for me. And since mababaw ang aking luha (yes, I cry easily when I am happy, sad, angry, exhausted, touched..), I became teary-eyed after reading it. Here's the letter:

Dear Tutors and Sponsors,

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for unconditionally rendering your free tutorial services to our students. You're so wonderful that you have spared your precious time to our students, wherein people like you are rare nowadays.

Thank you for inspiring our students to pursue their dreams and apply what they have learned for their betterment.

You really are good models to them that made them realize to do best than the rest.

Thank you for sharing your gift of knowledge to our students, guiding them to have a better future.

Thank you for letting them see the real meaning of their existence.

And finally, thank you for being you that you opened the opportunity they once had longed for.

Your kindness is already carved not only to the heart of our students but to the teachers and administrator of Taberna National High School as well. You really helped us in a way.

You are one in a million.

Let our Lord Almighty pay you back for all the good things you've done and yet to be done for the people's sake.

Taberna NHS Administrator and Teachers

Dara once told me, you become more and more sentimental as you become more and more involved in this project. I guess I have come to that point where I am already very sentimental about it. (LOL!)



What the others say is indeed true: the satisfaction of being able to help others is just amazing! And what is even more amazing is that what I had hoped for in the beginning of this project - being able to send these young students to CITE - has evolved to become something bigger: we are now able to touch the lives of even those who are not the recipients of the JamJar Project. Who would have thought that by simply saving P50 every payday for their tuition or by devoting four of the one hundred sixty eight hours we have in a week to tutor these students, we have already become modern-day heroes? We may not have capes, superpowers, and telekinetic abilities, but we care. We care deeply. We care enough to inspire others to care. And we care enough to change the world, one JamJar at a time.


~Chali ☺