The Last Saturday Club (TLSC) at the Sta. Ana Elementary School

September 26, 2009 - Typhoon "Ondoy" (internationally known as "Ketsana") brought the worst (amount of) rainfall to Metro Manila. Roads, highways, streets were impassable due to heavy floods. People were stranded. People were hurt. People were killed. Streams, rivers, lakes, and canals overflowed. Houses were damaged. Cars turned upside-down. Schools were muddied out, and this particular one was not spared.

Fast forward to May 2010 - the Kindergarten classroom of the Sta. Ana Elementary School remains unusable. Since the room and everything in it were drenched in floodwater during Typhoon Ondoy, the school had no choice but to cease using the room and convert it into a stock room instead. The school's administration maintains that they never had sufficient funding to clean up, repaint, and refurbish the room. They were left with no other option but to transfer the kids previously using the room to another room.

May 29, 2010 - Around 30 volunteers from TLSC and 20 volunteers from the Rotary Club of Makati joined hands to distribute food and school supplies to the students, and more importantly clean up, repaint, and refurbish not only the Kindergarten classroom, but also the Library of the Sta. Ana Elementary School. Through the generosity and kind-heartedness of so many people, the seemingly impossible task of feeding 330 students, distributing school supplies to them, cleaning up, repainting, and refurbishing the rooms was completed.

To the many sponsors and volunteers, THANK YOU! ---your friends from TLSC :)

*work begins at the Kinder classroom

*work begins at the library

*bottom-left: Tanya & Ros provided food and school supplies for the kids

*all these came from that small library!!!

*repainting has begun (library)

*multi-colored walls for good vibes!

*just as the School requested: heavenly bodies for the library walls

*after repainting and cleaning the shelves, we put back the books ;)

*while there was a lot of cleaning and repainting inside the rooms, this was happening outside

*school supplies for the kids

*inside the Kinder classroom: artists at work

*paint courtesy of Mr. Vincent Lee of DAVIES Paint! Thank you!!!

*the kids helped out as well :)

*Kinder classroom: Before and After

*Library: Before and After

*Tippi with volunteers from the Rotary Club of Makati

*All photos grabbed from the TLSC Facebook Page