Team Journey visits Melanio T Vergara Elementary School (MTVES) in Brgy Kagawasan, Guihulngan City, and brings notebooks and smiles to more than 300 kids.

2. Melanio T. Vergara
Elementary School
Brgy Kagawasan
Guihulngan City
by Team Journey

3. The road going up to Brgy
Kagawasan...home of pandan products
from Guihulngan...

5. Truly the home of pandan
A mother whiles her time weaving a
handbag made of pandan leaves while
waiting for her daughter to finish her
pre-school class...

8. Yeheey! New notebooks for
everyone!

14. (From left) With Brgy Captain Leonardo Arombo, Jessica Trinidad-
Villarmente, a Kagawasan basket weaver, and Mercedes Bontigao, also a
pandan bag weaver.

15. Quick stats
Name of School:
Melanio T. Vergara Elementary School
(MTVES)
Schoolhead:
Mr Wilmer M. Delasondra, School
Principal I
No. Of children served: 365
(as of July, 2012)
“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.”
--William Butler Yeats