PPCRV gets timely help from special volunteers 0 SHARES Share it! They were also deaf, but that didn’t matter at all in their mission to safeguard the votes cast last May 13. The deaf students’ presence infused energy into the other volunteers as hundreds of printed election returns (ER) poured into the Church-backed poll watchdog’s base in Manila that evening. “Most of them are from Visayas and Mindanao and 98 percent of them are scholars,” said Sidayon, who served as the students’ interpreter. “As part of the La Sallian community, isa sa tinuturo sa amin is the La Sallian value (we are taught the La Sallian value) which is…to be socially responsible despite their condition.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 17, 2019 06:33 UTC