*This event will be at no cost to you except for the transportation cost to and from the venue/venues. You may opt to bring your own food/snacks for lunch break.
All Together in Dignity (ATD) Fourth World is an international non-governmental organization with no religious or political affiliation who works with individuals and institutions to find solutions to eradicate extreme poverty. ATD works in partnership with people living in extreme poverty. Its human rights-based approach focuses on supporting families and individuals through its grassroots presence and involvement in disadvantaged communities, in urban and rural areas. It creates public awareness of extreme poverty and influences policies to address it.
WHO CAN JOIN?
Do you like reading books with children, encouraging them to read and talk about what they have just read? Do you like participating in creative workshops that makes it possible for children and you to discover your creative potentials? Do you like doing all these in an informal setting, squatting on mats, receiving hugs and touches from kids around you?
GET ORIENTED AND ATTEND THE STREET LIBRARY
If you answered YES, YOU are invited to an orientation for volunteers to our STREET LIBRARY PROGRAM. The program will be held from January to February 2018. The Street Library relaunch will be held on Jan. 13, 2018, at 2-5pm at Manila North Cemetery. Volunteers who attend the orientation will proceed to the venue along with ATD team members. Grab this chance for YOU to have a new, nice experience together with children in our communities.
THE STREET LIBRARY
The STREET LIBRARY aims to foster a love for reading books in communities that do not have much access to books and provides an atmosphere for learning that is encouraging. It may start with book reading time that may be done with more than one child, followed by storytelling (by one or two storytellers) and then the creative workshops.
KEEP UPDATED
Change of schedules, news and updates will be posted on our Facebook page (
https://www.facebook.com/ATD.Philippines/. We will also use all other means to get in touch with you for any changes through all the contact information you shared with us. Please make sure that these are all accurate.
DIRECTIONS TO ATD HOUSE (Pls. do not rely entirely on google maps, where ATD is at the other side of the street, but they got the gate pic correctly).
The jeep terminal is almost at the junction of five streets (Nagtahan, Legarda, Lacson, Laurel and Magsaysay Blvd.). It is directly under Magsaysay-Legarda flyover. Fare is P8.
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From Sta. Mesa/Cubao/Mandaluyong, Pasig/San Juan: Take a
Mendiola-St Jude jeep at Pureza or from Pureza LRT station. Landmarks you will pass are SaveMore and Mercury Drug just before you reach Lacson. Get off after the jeep crosses Lacson and reaches Laurel St. Go around the street corner to Legarda. The jeep terminal is about 15 meters away. Get off at terminal in Pandacan. Walk towards Sto. Nino de Pandacan Church at Jesus St. and cross towards Labores. Landmarks at the entrance to Labores from Jesus St.: 7-11 and Merryland Mini Mart. Walk along Labores past Central St. (where a lot of vehicles are parked) until you reach No. 1225, a cream-colored three-storey house with a skyblue gate.
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From Espana: Take a Lardizabal jeep from V. G. Cruz St. cor. Espana and get off at jeep terminal at Lardizabal cor. Dela Fuente. Turn left at Dela Fuente and walk straight to Magsaysay Blvd. At Magsaysay, turn right and walk straight to Legarda (under flyover). Get off at terminal in Pandacan. Walk towards Sto. Nino de Pandacan Church at Jesus St. and cross towards Labores. Landmarks at the entrance to Labores from Jesus St.: 7-11 and Merryland Mini Mart. Walk along Labores past Central St. (where a lot of vehicles are parked) until you reach No. 1225, a cream-colored three-storey house with a skyblue gate.
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From Taft: Take LRT, get off at Pedro Gil St., or take jeep and get off at Escoda St. (a street away from P. Gil). The Pandacan jeep terminal is at Escoda cor. Leon Guinto St. The jeep will pass in front of ATD House. Landmarks: The jeep will pass via E. Zamora St. (where Jacinto Zamora Elem. Sch. is). You will see a bakery at the corner of Hilum and the entrance to Labores if you come from Zamora. The jeep will pass Victorino St. where a barangay outpost is. ATD is a few houses away from Victorino. Number 1225 Labores is a cream-colored three-storey house with a skyblue gate.
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See you at the orientation and street library! :-)
