without 25 cents, there will be no single peso...

Corazon Mendoza's 25 CENTS FROM THE POOR TO THE POOREST OF THE POOR (http://www.misyononline.com/janfeb09-25cents) reminds me of a simple story told to me by a friend. There was this child who never value the worth of the 25 cents Philippine coin. She would just play with the coin and would leave it in the ground. One day, an ice cream vendor was passing by in there house. Her mother went marketing and so the the little girl, hurriedly look for coins in their table and drawers.She did found four pesos. She only need one peso to buy a cone of ice cream but she can't fine one anymore. The vendor was approaching nearer and nearer when she remembered of the 25 cents she used to play with outside. She desperately started looking for those and ended up with three 25 cents. She kept on searching for one more but found none. The ice cream vendor was already far from their house. She was sad but she learned something. Since then, she started to have a piggy bank for 25 cents. At the end of the year, she was surprised with how much she has collected.

The project that the students of Ms. Mendoza has accepted and initiated also confirmed that 25 cents is something. It did helped a lot of students and I believe that their hearts were filled with happiness and joy.Certainly, without 25 cents, there will be no single peso...

For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
—Deuteronomy 15:11