My Mission
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, 12-07-2010 at 07:16 AM (1686 Views)
I am a teacher. Therefore, my missions are to teach my students and mold them to be better individuals.
But that was my perception before until I met Chinamae. Chinamae is my student.
One day, she approached me and ask me if she can be my laundrywoman. I was really shocked with her question and I asked her why. And then I learned from her that she was already the breadwinner of her family. Her father already left them. And she has a baby sister that's why her mother can't work for a living. So all the responsibilities are already left on her shoulder. She was washing clothes every 6 in the evening in one their family's friends and paid her 50 pesos.
I didn't want to leave her that time without an assurance that she can have an extra work. So after my work hours, we went to my previous private school and asked the director and principal if she can work in their school even as a janitress. I also asked my co-teachers if they can give a work to my poor student but she was unlucky.
Being bothered with her situation, I offered her some little help. I told her that she can eat her lunch with me everyday (for sometimes, she and her family can't eat three times a day). I also told her that I can give her 20 pesos everyday. But she needs to help me in recording my quizzes, tests, etc. I also told her that I can support her studies.
The next day, we ate lunch together and she helped me in some of my paper works. She was very thankful to me and was very happy because 20 pesos for her is a big help.
Chinamae is now included in my mission: To assure that she can eat even once a day and can have a little extra money from me. I will not leave Chinamae until I see she graduate in her studies.
Sometimes, we are just focusing ourselves in our work. But situation will bring us into a realization that we have many missions in our life to be done or to be fulfilled.