31/05/2026
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ: ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฃ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ด๐ด๐น๐ฒ๐
Have you ever wondered how life is like a sandwich? Sometimes, good things happen, challenges come between moments, but we try to end each day as hopeful as we can be.
What started as a simple sandwich-making performance task (PT) for Grade 6 students turned into an insightful and eye-opening experience for them.
๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ: โ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒโ
Using their cooking and entrepreneurial skills, Ateneans from Grade 6 Borgia, Faber, Loyola, and Xavier prepared and sold โsandwiches of hopeโ as part of their second trimester PT in TLE, Mathematics, and Filipino.
Students earned more than PHP 20,000 after the one-week period of selling to the community.
๐๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด (๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ)
The project did not just end with selling, as the money earned, along with school supplies, was donated to an Ati community in Brgy. Ubang, Pototan, Iloilo, and received by representatives Merriam Francelizo and Jessa Mae Elo.
A portion of the donated money was used for the repair of their community activity centers.
During the turnover of donations on March 28, selected Grade 5 and 6 students from the Grade School Student Council and The Pebbles Publication joined in and learned from a conversation with Maโam Merriam and Maโam Jessa about the struggles of their community.
The loss of language, culture, and tradition due to the influence of mainstream society, bullying in school, and a lack of livelihood remain the difficulties faced by the indigenous people.
For many children in their community, education is both a dream to attain and a daily struggle, which inspired Maโam Jessa, a second-year agriculture student at Iloilo State University of Fisheries Science and Technology in Di**le, Iloilo, to pursue and finish her degree.
โKung maka-graduate โko, mabalik โko sa community ko [para] mabuligan sila,โ said Elo, who was among the few from their community to get a tertiary education.
๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ: ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต๐
The conversation, facilitated by Sir Emmanuel Blance, Ma'am Gina Matutina, and Sir Eric Morguia, Jr., ended on a hopeful note as student representatives shared insights about the discussion.
โThrough this talk, I understand even more about [the community], which makes my heart a little braver that I get to know and meet people, which also gives me a very nice experience to tell my classmates,โ said student council chairperson Sophia Arroyo.
Moved by the community youthโs experiences with societyโs stereotypes of Atis, The Pebbles editor-in-chief Myss Ashchelle Traviรฑa shared: โIndi kamo magpati nga may limit sa inyo kay damo pa gid ang inyo maubra.โ
Indeed, life is like a sandwich โ for many people, despite the painful lived realities in every slice, there is still hope in every bite.
โ๏ธ Eliana Lao/The Pebbles
๐ธ Emmanuel Blance & Eric Morguia, Jr.
