In the maiden issue of Pangarap at Pamana newsletter, we featured in our frontpage the “amazing” feat of Myrna Modesto Daplas, who despite living in poverty as a mother of nine children, still managed to get back to school and obtain a high school diploma.
After finishing her secondary education, Myrna, as though a teenage girl very eager and excited to enter college, decided to enroll at Mondrian Aura College located at Subic Bay Freeport Zone. And what could be a more fitting course for a person so much pre-occupied with the value of education such as Myrna? She is now taking up Bachelor of Elementary Education. And guess what area is she majoring in. Well, it is English. Who says English is only for the accent-conscious English-speaking colegiala of the elite socialites? Determination and drive for education transcend socio-economic class and background.
In the first semester, she took the maximum load of 21 units of regular subjects plus 2 units of P.E. and 1.5 units of Civic Welfare and Service Training. The grades that she got are high considering that she is not your ordinary type of student, she is a full-time mother of 9 kids in a poor family and a part-time laundrywoman. Only two subjects registered a grade in the level of 2, the rest were in 1, with a flat 1 as the highest. She is presently enrolled for the second semester.
If you are wondering what fuels Myrna’s drive for academic heights, two factors are obviously on top. One is her determination to fulfill her ambition to finish her studies. The other is the continued support (financial, moral, and spiritual the most notable forms) that the Barkada ng Sagrada Pamilya Foundation, Inc. is giving her. At age 38, she is no doubt the most senior among BSPFIs scholars, even older than Fr. Albert Avenido, who encouraged her and endorsed her to BSPFI’s Board of Trustees. But age doesn’t matter in God’s love and grace. Especially in the case of Myrna, with her life full of determination and dedication, she remains young at heart and in mind.
Photo: Taken on one of the regular visits of BSPFI program coordinator Mr. Dennis Sanga and board director Rommel Sune.
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