Highlands Ladies golf to benefit Sisters of Mary center

THE Highlands Ladies Cup’s return on April 29 at Tagaytay Midlands and Lucky 9 courses will offer players of all genders the chance to not just enjoy a fun round of golf but also a meaningful opportunity to help the less fortunate.

The organizing Tagaytay Highlands Ladies Chapter (THLC) is earmarking part of the tournament proceeds for the Sisters of Mary boys’ and girls’ town center in Silang, Cavite as part of its commitment to help the underprivileged youths fulfill their dreams.

“Sisters of Mary is such a positive force in helping kids from low income families have a chance at a better future. They need all the help they can get because it’s expensive to run the school,” said Highlands Ladies Sports captain Sandy Romualdez.

The center has flourished to four school campuses, two each in Cavite and Cebu, from its modest beginnings in 1985 in Sta. Mesa, Manila funded through local and global philanthropy.

The schools’ viable curriculum has motivated the Highlands team to make the Silang campuses as its perennial beneficiary.

Initiated by the late Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz, a diocesan priest who suffered from ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) and two Korean nuns, the school’s mission—inspired by the Virgin of the Poor—aims to provide high quality secondary education intensive on vocational technical curriculum.

Since the congregation’s founding in 1964 in Busan, Korea, the feast day of the Assumption, it has expanded to the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and Brazil. The “active contemplatives” continue to inculcate the “Martha and Mary” attitudes, balancing practical realities of life with the spiritual, to their students.

“During the pandemic, we didn’t host any fund-raiser but we continued our humble donation to the school,” said tournament chair Dionne Cu.

Team president Rosalind Wee also said she is “impressed that the school holds financial literacy training for the school kids.”