Service from the heart
Through time, SLMCS continues to serve the poor through the Louise de Marillac Educational Foundation (LMFI) – Community Extension Services (CES).
LMFI-CES envisions a vibrant integrated CES, committed to organize small faith-communities that are self-sustaining, self-nourishing, and self-governing. To this end, LMFI-CES focuses on four priority thrusts: 1) the alleviation of poverty and hunger, 2) primary education, 3) ministry to migrants, HIV-AIDS and 4) environmental sustainability.
In response to these thrusts, the school community continues to its commitment through the following programs and services.
• Community Organizing for Sustainable Development Program for two partner communities: Sitio Bagong Sirang in Macabog, and Encabuhan Tres in Roro, Sorsogon City.
• The Alternative Learning System being implemented in 15 barangays in the three districts of Sorsogon.
• The Balik-Eskwela Program caters to out-of-school youths and potential drop-outs aimed at bringing hope for a brighter future to the youth, and even adults.
• The Adopt-a-School Program serves more than a hundred malnourished elementary pupils every year at Bitan-o Elementary School.
• For Health and Nutrition Program, elderly clients in six barangays enjoy the ‘Meals on Wheels’ carried out, regularly.
* The Marillac Ecology Farm serves as the place for Agricultural and Economic Productivity.
Other community outreach activities include the Community Service at Vincentian Family Village in Anislag, Daraga, Albay; Disaster Response; Case Studies, Referrals and Advocacies; and jail apostolates. It also maintains a Training and Renewal Center at the Marillac Ecology Park for recollections, retreats, seminars, meetings and sports activities of the school community. Another group of student-volunteers "VoCES" which stands for "Volunteers for CES" is organized to expedite implementation of the CES programs.
In this spirit of mutual collaboration and true to its vision and mission towards "integral formation for transformation" of its community of learners, the outpouring of these blessings through service to the larger community is the school’s expression of love and fidelity to the "calls of the Church and the cries of the poor." In the process, its poor partner communities and institutions become not just vibrant artisans of their own development, but truly partners and collaborators who, in turn, become agents of social transformation.
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