We started out at 10 AM when Rose Marie and Fred, the driver, dropped by at Laila's house to pick us up. Again the traffic was terrible as MMDA was doing some road works along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). I am starting to learn the names of some of the cities around here. Anyway near the airport is Tramo, Parañaque City where Sarah and her family live in a depressed area.
We met Sarah, Shiela, and their mother up at McDonalds and then took a short drive over to the SM Sucat Mall. On the way, we were talking about possible places to eat when Laila mentioned Chow King and we found that the kids had not been there yet, so Chow King it was.
We parked the van in a basement and met Riel at Chow King. After Laila had them remodel the place to accomodate our group (she is very good at that), we sat down to a meal of Sweet and Sour Pork, Chicken, Pancit Bihon, Rice and other stuff. The meal was great and the kids really stuffed themselves as did everyone else.
After the meal we all went upstairs to the food section to buy food for Sarah and her family. Laila, who is always really observant of things caught Sarah's mother trying to add things to the list like milk formula for her son's baby and things like that. We were there to spend our money on Sarah and her needs other than the extended family.
We went ahead and filled up a shopping cart with grocery items and then took them to Tramo where we put them on a tricycle for home. It was great to see the smiles on Sarah and her sister's face as they left, even though we have the feeling that their mother would probably sell some of the food for cash. Sort of how the welfare folks in the states do.
Anyway, we then headed back to Laila's house which again took quite a while as the traffic again was miserable. She didn't know about the traffic because she had slept through the trip back. I look forward visiting Sarah and the Save the Children again on my next visit. It was a very good feeling to be helping someone less fortunate than ourselves and Laila and myself enjoyed it alot.