The homes are built in our IDEA shop by our deaf carpenters. We are not able to go down to a Home Depot and buy the lumber. Instead we have to order the lumber rough cut by chainsaw and then bring it into our shop to mill it down to ship-lap siding and studs. It is a very labor and equipment intensive effort. The homes are then either built in knockdown form or totally assembled and delivered to the building site on a trailer or truck.
Gifts for Bohol and Leyte in Christmas 2011
DEAF FESTIVAL BOHOL, PHILIPPINES It has been three years since the last Bohol Deaf Festival. On December 6 & 7 deaf children and adults from all over the island made their way to the Bohol Deaf Academy for the two days of fun, games, presentations and fellowship. For many of the youngsters this was the
Starkey Hearing Foundation and IDEA Philippines Team Up To Provide Hearing Aids to Bohol December six and seven were a whirlwind couple of days at IDEA’s Dao Diamond Hotel in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. The six member Starkey Hearing Foundation audiology team from the States plus nine audiology student volunteers from the University of
Getting Ready for Christmas There are no evergreen trees on the island of Bohol in the Philippines so having a traditional Christmas tree is out of the question. This means that every year the kids up at IDEA’s Bohol Deaf Academy “build”a Christmas. This year they decided to use a native grass and bamboo as
Faith Chapel Volunteers from Billings, Montana transform abandoned building into a home for deaf children. Maasin City, Southern Leyte, Philippines, August 21, 2011 Hundreds of deaf children live in isolation in the mountains of Southern Leyte with no chance for an education because of distance and economics. There is only one practical solution to providing
FIRST BATCH OF MAYON STOVES July 5, 2011 Perla Manapol (pictured at the left) is the president of an organization known as Sustainable Rural Enterprises based in Aklan, Philippines. Her fervour to help the poor and at the same time helping the environment is contagious. She initially infected Ambassador Benny Tan (pictured on the right)
The Consuelo Foundation has come to the rescue with not only new computers but also a whole list of e-skills modules for teaching vocational skills.
June Sixth Marks The Beginning of a New School Year Each May we survey the mountains on the islands of Bohol and Leyte for deaf children who have never been in school. The survey only lasts a week and is carried out by the teachers. This means they spend many hours riding on the back
Samaritan’s Purse Gifts for IDEA Deaf Students httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs114qH-Q4c The gift giving was probably actually meant to happen in December of 2010 but a 40 foot shipping container full of “Gifts in a Shoe Box” from Samaritan’s Purse got held up in Philippine Customs. With the final release of the container van, we got a last
