The Young Euramersian Philanthropist: Help Build The First High School In Mapita

Let us join hands together and make this world a better place to live each day.

You can make a dramatic difference to help these children

URGENT PROJECT

The Familia Sauza-Berenguer de Marquina does not forget our ethnic ancestries. Our Mexican-Indian ancestries are traced back to Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, the home of our Sauza ancestors. We are proud and grateful of our Mexican-Indian ancestries. In the Philippines, Doña Ysabel located on Doña Ysabel Berenguer de Marquina y Sumulong, the wife of Don Santiago Sauza of Tequila, Jalisco, Mexico, was a Dumagat by her maternal Sumulong ancestry. The Dumagats are one of the Philippine natives who reside in eatern, central and southern parts of the island of Luzon.

Because of our indigenous roots, we have a soft spot in our hearts in caring for our fellow indigenous peoples. We present to you about the present situation of one of the indigenous peoples in the Philippines, the Cordillerans or in generic, the Igorots. We believe you can be of big help.

Mapita is a sitio located on the top of the mountains of Barangay Laoag, of Aguilar, a third class municipality of the province of Pangasinan, a northeastern province of the Republic of the Philippines. Mapita is a community of mixed Cordillerans or Igorots, one of the ethnic groups of the country. The Cordillerans of Mapita are Ibalois, Kankana eys and Bontocs who are all depending on farming in the highlands.

Since the formation of Mapita in 1960s, there is only one elementary school functioning up to this day and no electricity from the town central has reached the place. Only few can provide seasonal generators to produce electricity at night. This elementary school is called Mapita Elementary School. Since then, there are no public high school or even a private school located in Mapita.

The nearest public high school and private school from Mapita is almost 20 kilometers. The students after graduating from elementary either help their parents in farming and go to high school. Only few were able to finish high school because many students from Mapita went back to Mapita either in their teenage pregnancy, culture shock from the lowland and preferred to work as a farmer. This kind of set up is still going on in Mapita.

The Mapita students and out-of-school youth are intelligent, talented and most of all willing to study, but their parents are financially hard up in providing the needed daily allowances of them such as food and transportation plus the house or room rent of their stay in the lowland. The only income of Mapita is a seasonal occupation called farming.

To support and to help these indigenous children and youth to go to and to finish high school not away from their mountainous home, please help us build an indigenous high school for them called NEW CORDILLERANS ACADEMY for the development and honing of their skills. We are now raising funds worth PhP 1,000,000.00 (one million Philippine pesos) or US$ 22, 999.08 for us to purchase the 1 hectare land for the establishment of NEW CORDILLERANS ACADEMY.

We welcome any individual, corporation, group or even NGO to help us build this school that we target to open for 1st year and 2nd year in 2013. We also welcome in kind donations such as educational materials, science laboratory apparatus, sports equipment and other materials needed to build this school. We also welcome volunteer builders of this school. You can be our partner. Rest assured that your donation will be given to the shool and its beneficiaries. Partner With Us Now! Helping these children and youth of Mapita to earn a quality education that they deserve will surely and dramatically change the world through you. Who knows through your help, you will help the world produce the best servant leaders of the future. (Below are the pictures of Mapita and the children who await your help.)