Visiting Basag, the Hot Town in Philippines

Visiting Basag, the Hot Town in Philippines
- The New JTS Activist’s First Journey

JTS Activist, Lee Jae-Gon

“Can you tell me where I can wash my hands?”

JTS Activist, Lee Jae-Gon

JTS Activist, Lee Jae-Gon

Whenever I ask something, the children in town become very shy and busy to run away from me. They just smile at me who looks different from them. High grade students randomly understand my English but the lower grade students don’t understand English at all. I don’t know how speak Bisayan(Mindanao language) either, so I made a gesture like washing my face. Even though I try so hard to know where a bathroom is, they just point at somewhere and never tell me exactly where it is. I asked one of the school teachers this, and he said, I should go for about 1Km out of town to get water. Continue reading

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Water That Carry on Living or Diseases

Water That Carry on Living or Diseases

I’m on my way to gather up laundries from the top roof of a building in Jivaka because it’s pouring outside. It was perfect sunny day just a few minutes ago, so I tried drying laundries outside, but it turns out I’m in India.

It has been in rainy season in this area since last month, so now the activists in Jivaka are no longer suffered from 40 degree heat. Although there is no extremely hot weather anymore, still it is hot, rainy, and humid. so I feel unpleasant these days. After the pouring for a week, town people including the old and young, are busy to transplant rice. They start their work from dawn to dusk. Continue reading

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Apa kabar Indonesia!

Apa kabar Indonesia!

- Let’s eat! Ramadan is finally over!

* Apa kabar is Indonesian which means “how are you?”

2012 08.20
JTS INDONESIA
Lim Hee Sung

I run into town people on my way to go to work like everyday. For JTS activists in Indonesia, it is the beginning of the day to say good morning to the town people at the work place. JTS Indonesia have supported kindergartens, town medical offices, and water canals in Lubu cba song, Dil la dang ky mang, and Ttyu this year. We are also planning to provide farming equipments at the proper time. We had to ask medical officials’ advice because we’ve never had any experiences to build a medical office in town before, while we had built a kindergarten and water canal last year. We are about to build a living space in the new medical office this time, so that the medical staffs can stay in for 24 hours, since the medical office is the first step for town people to get treatment. We believe that the medical office will be helpful for pregnant women and infants, who feel difficult to move to far places, after it’s completed. The kindergarten will be built with 3 classrooms just like the previous building, built in last year. I think 3 class rooms are enough to handle increasing children’s number in town. We decide to provide farming equipments, mainly the ones which can be delivered from Indonesia and are easy to be fixed by people in town. Continue reading

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