Metamorphosis_Kalahi-CIDSS Compendium 2015
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pay for what she does,” he said.<br />
Area Coordinator Roxan Ramirez of the <strong>Kalahi</strong>-<strong>CIDSS</strong> has similar words for the mildmannered<br />
lady. “Manang Elsie is one of the most active members of the community and she<br />
is very transparent especially in paper works, I never noticed any problems on her work,”<br />
she stated.<br />
Lifting her community<br />
Though admittedly skeptical at first, Manang Elsie became a community volunteer in 2012<br />
when the <strong>Kalahi</strong> <strong>CIDSS</strong> was being implemented in Besao on its second year.<br />
She said it was the system of how the program was being implemented that initially attracted<br />
her like many others who tried volunteering. However, many did not last as community<br />
volunteers, she lamented.<br />
There was a lot of work done yet it was without compensation which dissuaded many of the<br />
early volunteers, manang Elsie stated.<br />
5<br />
Superwoman. At home, Manang Elsie never fails to keep the house warm fulfilling her<br />
duties as a wife and a mother.*
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