In celebration of National Homeschool day, HAPI or the Homeschoolers Association of the Philippines launched a #makeothershapi campaign amongst homeschoolers in the Philippines. It was a call to celebrate by sharing what your family can do to #makeothershapi.

We were presented with quite an opportunity when we came across this post about educational books for a small library for the Manobo tribe in Arakan Valley, North Cotabato.

We picked some favorites and books my little ones gave finished reading a few times. Small, but informative books such as:

• Children's Picture Encyclopedia
• My First Atlas
• My First Ocean Encyclopedia
• Voyager (about Space)
• I Wonder Why Vultures are Bald
• Can we Live on Mars?
• Can we Drink the Ocean?
• Can we Live without Trees?
• My Favorite Book of ABC's
• My Favorite Nursery Rhymes 1
• My Favorite Nursery Rhymes 2
• Book of Stories with Moral Lessons
• My First Flip and Spell
• Learning Shapes
• Learning Numbers
• Olympic Ball Games
• Addition to 10

We also included some great story books like:

• Frozen
• Dora's Birthday Surprise
• Finding Nemo, Fish are Friends not Food
• Farm Babies-Piglet
• Hello Kitty book
• An Emotional Well being book for kids on Sadness
• Sparkly Day
• The Tigger Movie
• Beauty and the Beast

We had to remove some old large ones because they wouldn't fit in the box but we made sure the kid friendly ones would fit.

Most of these books we bought at various book and garage sales. Some of them were hand-me-downs by my friend Jackie and her adorable kids Joax and Elise.

Special thanks to these adorable kiddos!

We sorted the books one last time and let the kids say goodbye to their beloved books.

Their favorites were the handy encyclopedias and the Finding Nemo book. They watched as the books were sealed in and my daughter included a message for the kids. She was happy that other children will learn and enjoy from the books she once enjoyed so much.

It was a learning opportunity also for her to understand how to send packages so we let her write down the addresses.

I noticed today that we were a bit late sending the books but we're still hoping it reaches the Manobo tribe children and that we can send more. I'm sure they would need solar lamps for their library, right?

For more information on this initiative, visit this post on CHARITY WORK: Needing Your Help to Provide Medicine Kits, Educational Books and Hygiene Kits for the Manobo Community in Arakan Valley and let me know in the comment below if you also want to help.

Thanks for reading!

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