Cararoo Newsletter May 2016 Kids' Newsletter | Page 4

My Village
By Carla Orapa, Angelica Sualog and Angelee Dacuba

Hi. My name is Carla Orapa. I’m one of the High School students that Cararoo is sponsoring. Helping with this
project are Angelica Sualog, another high school graduate student, and Angelee Dacuba from grade 4.
In our village there are always a lot of things happening with families: kids playing around the area with their
friends, and parents doing the usual things to earn money to help their families, like doing laundry for other
people. They earn very little money from this kind of work, just enough to survive from day to day. Others have to
borrow money from the Bombay (Indian people who lend money for small business capital - and they pay them
back little by little everyday - the amount of money depends on how much they borrowed).
One of the best things in our village is that everybody knows every body. Most of the kids the same age as me go
to the same school. We hang around together if we have free time.
Sometimes we have special occasions in the village which make our life very interesting. Every summer we have
different kinds of activities such as basketball for different ages, volleyball for mums, or just normal social games.
Sometimes the whole community gets together to carry out some jobs such as cleaning the creek area. We call this
bayanihan - it is when the people provide the manpower whenever there is help needed in the community. This is
always a typical tradition of the Filipino.

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