MCI‘s 5th Tools for School Project
MINORITY Care International’s goal to raise awareness of the importance of giving was made possible through the community outreach project Tools for Schools. MCI’s scholars experienced the joy of giving by handing out school supplies to the delighted detainees at the Davao City Jail on January 21, 2019.
MCI teaches that giving is living and living is giving. This was MCI’s fifth batch of Tools for School at the jail. The purpose of the project is to teach the recipients the value of education and to inspire them to become the hope and role model of their generation.
MCI is not just giving scholarships and training them in life skills but also teaches its scholars on how to give back to the community. This was an opportunity for Jerwin Capurus to return a blessing to the community and to model the values he learned in the MCI program.
Jerwin is the one who sponsored this year’s MCI annual Tools for School project at the jail. He helped purchase the school supplies for 183 Alternative Learning inmate students. Jerwin, a former MCI scholar, has already graduated and served as a surgical nurse first off the coast of Benin and then in Bangladesh to administer medical care to the Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from Myanmar. Recently Jerwin began working for Doctors without Borders.
Students of MCI return something of themselves to the community. Jerwin said, “It made me feel amazing inside knowing that I was given the chance to give back to the community and see the smile on these students. MCI is making the world a better place.” He encouraged the inmates to continue to do the right thing and not to focus on the past but to learn lessons from it.
Also, he urged them to trust the current process they have undertaken in terms of rehabilitation, etc. Living as a community means having a genuine relationship with our God and demonstrating His love and service from our core.
An official in charge of the Davao City Jail has launched an Alternative Education System for some of the young detainees that could give prison inmates a chance for rehabilitation and a meaningful life after imprisonment.