I am looking forward to making some new crafts for this year…

I’m starting to decorate a variety of boxes with ‘beachy’ decorations. I also want to experiment with paper mache, making some small decorative scenes of a seaside nature. 

I am planning a special sponsored event for May.. watch out on the Facebook page for more details later. 

It has been a pleasure to raise money for the good work of Lamp Community Services this year. 

My legs still ache 😂 from walking so far during the summer on my ‘sponsored walk’ and I have a great plan for next year’s sponsored event.

I have loved making crafts to sell to people, and at the same time talking with people about how the love of Christ is being shown in Valencia.

I am looking forward to carrying on supporting Lamp in 2024.. 🥰🥰

On May 16th I started a walk from Portsmouth Harbour, walking the coastline eastwards and ending up at Brighton Palace Pier two weeks later. The walk was over nine days and I walked over 70 miles to raise awareness of poverty in local areas and raise money for the work of Lamp Community Services. 

Thanks to many people supporting me, I’ve been able to raise £500 to send to aid charity work of Lamp.

I would like to sincerely thank all those who have contributed to this successful event - my feet will recover at some point…!!

I live in the city of Valencia, in the province of Bukidnon, Mindanao, Philippines.

Before I met LAMP, my perspective in life was low, I only had a limited view on life and what I could do with it. I focussed only on bringing my family out of poverty. LAMP opened my view about life into something much more positive. I met Lamp when we transferred church to Christian Refuge and I was involved in the Vacation Bible school sponsored by Lamp.

LAMP helped me to develop myself as a person through the guidance of God’s word.

LAMP also helped me financially, they helped me so I was able to do my degree. They gave me the job of technician in church, operating sound and multimedia, lately that has been extended to organising online meetings for church groups.

Lamp inspired me to apply for a scholarship to college to start a course in biology, and I graduated Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2016. I work now as a Medical sales specialist.

I am now attempting to take up a medical degree and become a Doctor of medicine. It is my wish and dream to help the less fortunate, the poor and underprivileged, as a medical doctor, and I pray that donors will help bring this to reality.

Miss Clene Rose Palle

04/03/2022

April 2018:

My first impression of the school was a small painted building with a couple of doors and a few windows. It was school holidays and the only children I saw were a few attending a summer school. The playground was a small area of stubby grass and baked earth - didn’t really look like any school that I’d visited before. 

Ma’am Joyce (the headteacher) took me round the two main classrooms, one larger than the other because it was portioned out into a few sections for different age groups and a special needs area. The walls were decorated in plain but pleasant colours, the teachers had spent a lot of time and effort to make the rooms comfortable for the children to learn in.

The children that I saw were all eager to be there and to learn from the adults. They especially loved to listen to stories.. eager faces concentrating on the speaker. 

Because of the dangerous social climate with Muslim extremists there at the time, I was not allowed to visit the communities where education is needed the most, and I was escorted by friends when away from the school in Juanilla village; but I did see poverty on a level that I had not personally seen before; and I was convinced of the need for this school and the charitable work that comes from it. 

I am honoured and blessed to have been asked to be the UK representative for the charity since then.