Great progress in the Philippines!

We are very pleased to report to all our family and friends in Australia that much progress has been made in the three areas of work we targeted for the time we are here .... teaching, dental work and computer installation.

The teachers on team successfully ran a seminar last Saturday for local teachers in the areas of mathematics, music and we also worked through the question 'what makes a good teacher a great teacher'.  Linda is now continuing to assist in the teaching of mathematics in Years prep to grade three by working with teachers in their individual classes.  Georgie is also working with individual classes demonstrating different ways to teach music.

Mal, Andrew and Jim (a local dental technician from the church here) have completed denture work for more than a dozen local people who had no teeth or very few teeth.  Working under trying circumstances and with less equipment than they are used to in Australia, the team are successfully alleviating much suffering and embarrassment in the lives of local people caused by missing teeth.

The computer savvy people on team are helping to install a bank of computers in the school (our church funded this equipment)  The installation process is not easy as much prep work needs to take place first - such as the installation of security doors for the computer room, computer work benches built, power supply and a wireless system to install.  We are wanting to make the system as robust as possible so little maintenance will be required in the coming year.

Today we are heading off to the feeding program at Nasisi.  Many church members have financially supported this critically important program so we'll be able to report in the next blog as to how it all turns out!

The attached photos show the group of 'graduating' teachers from the teaching seminar and also one of Andrew hard at work helping to build up a set of dentures.