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Faculty and students prepare the toys.

Students wrap the toys to be distributed the next day.

MCCID Santa Clauses (From Left): Andrew Calaycay Jr., Sir Jerome Marzan, Sir Jojo Esposa, Sir Edmond Guzman, Sir Ervin Reyes, Lucky Paltep and Kurt Patrick Galicha

Together with MCCID Quezon Branch Faculty, Administrators and Students

Bethsaida School students give their special sign language number.

Parents and kids who are recipients of the gifts

Bethsaida Ptr. Ben Hugo gives his welcome address.

Bethsaida Teacher Loida Alvarez thanked everybody in making the occasion a success.

Sir Jojo introduces the MCCID Santa Clauses.

Ptr. Hugo exchanges gifts to Sir Jojo.

MCCID and Tiaong Quezon Officials and Students

MCCID Tiaong Branch students do their special dance number.

MCCID Cubao head office joins in a special number.

Andrew motions the kid to kiss him on his cheek.

Kurt Patrick gives fruits to the deaf kid.

MCCID Quezon Trainor Edmond Guzman pose with a child recipient.

More than 35 kids received the toys and fruits courtesy of MCCID Main School students.

MCCID Santa Clauses greet the parents and kids on their way home.

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MCCID Santa Claus Team pose on top of future school site (From Left) Joanna Teves, Mark Angelo Reyes, Ariel Quibol, Sir Ervin, Sir Jojo, Jepa Kerena Basilio and Moises Libot

Sir Jojo explains to the children and their parents about the purpose of the Share-a-Toy activity.

Buntong Palay Day Care Center pupils together with their parents and siblings

More than 70 children were given toys and other gifts.

Esposa Kids Patricia, Mariegin and Regina Mae together with MCCID Registrar Ma'am Remedios Esposa assists in giving out toys and gifts.

Day Care Center Teacher Gina Ballatan calls the names of the recipients of the toys.

Sir Jojo introduces the MCCID Student Santa Clauses Joanna, Moises and Jepa.

MCCID Santa Clauses' Joanna and Ariel assists in giving out gifts.

With the goal of spreading cheers to children this Yuletide Season, the MCCID College of Technology decided to hold a Share-A-Toy for Disabled Children of Tiaong, Quezon and Indigent Pupils of Buntong Palay Day Care Center in Silangan, San Mateo, Rizal.

Each MCCID student donated toys for every child assigned to him/her. The school, for its counterpart, gave fruits, chocolates, candies and other expenses. A total of 110 children received toys and other gifts. Two separate deaf student groups were given the opportunity to give the toys.

MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa and Deaf Coordinator Ervin Reyes led the team composed of Deaf Trainors’
Jerome Marzan and Edmond Guzman Jr., MCCID Student President Lucky McGill Paltep, Andrew Calaycay Jr., Owen Domagtoy and Kurt Patrick Galicha went to Tiaong, Quezon in December 21. A special program was held wherein MCCID Tiaong Branch students gave their dance and other numbers. Bethsaida Director Ptr. Ben Hugo and Teacher Loida Alvarez welcomed the group. More than 35 disabled kids received the toys.

For the San Mateo gift-giving program, MCCID Registrar Remedios Esposa, Sir Jojo, Sir Ervin and Owen led the group together with Student Leaders’ Joanna Teves, Jepa Kerena Basilio, Mark Angelo Reyes and the Esposa kids Mariegin, Patricia and Regina Mae distributed the toys and fruits on December 22. Teacher Gina Ballatan of B Palay Day Care Center assisted the group. Over 70 pupils received the toys and fruits.

Ma’am Esposa, School Registrar hoped that this share-a-toy program would be an annual event for MCCID. She thanked and gave blessings to all the students who participated in this activity.

Thailand APCD

Day 0 - Sir Edmond Guzman of MCCID College Tiaong, Quezon and Jojo in front of APCD PWD Friendly Service Bus

Day 1 - Participants and delegates in front of APCD Training Building

Day 1 - From Left: Ms. Rachmita Harahap. Deaf representative from Indonesia, Ms. Kurnia Ige, Interpreter from Indonesia, Sir Edmond and Sir Jojo

Day 2 - Mr. Reginaldo Tolentino of NCDA presents a summary of day one's activities.

Day 2 - Sir Edmond presents the summary of day one's activities.

Day 2 - Sir Jojo explains about NCDA website and web accessibility initiatives in the Philippines as part of the country report.

Day 3 - A Thai Visually Impaired resource person explains the different assistive devices used by PWDs in accessing the computer.

Day 4 - A visit at Suanlum Night Bazaar

Day 5 - Tour at Thailand's Grand Palace

Day 5 - APCD Delegates in front of Grand Palace

Day 5 - Sir Edmond behind Grand Palace

Day 6 - Bangkok's Victory Monument, a two-kilometer distance from APCD Training Center

Day 6 - Chanced meeting with local Thai Deaf congregating at McDonald's around Victory Monument

Day 7 - APCD Delegates at NECTEC

Day 7 - Thammasat University Disabled Student's Services Office

Day 8 - Joomla Training at APCD Computer Laboratory

Day 9 - Sir Edmond assists two participants from Thailand.

Day 9 - Sir Edmond using his newly purchased Acer Laptop

Day 10 - Mr. Dandy Victa of NCDA delivers his Joomla designed website.

Day 10 - Ms. Marlene Mariano of PWD Association of Makati City explains her Joomla designed website.

Day 10 - Philippine Team (From Left: Edmond Guzman, Jojo Esposa, Reggie Tolentino, Dandy Victa and Marlene Manalo)

Day 10 - Sir Edmond explains his Joomla designed website in sign language while Sir Jojo reverse interprets.

Day 10 - Ms. Wantanee of NECTEC presents web accessibility initiatives among Asian countries where Philippines gave a strong performance.

Day 10 - ICT Accessibility Initiatives in the Philippines video was presented to the delegates.

Day 10 - Delegates pose together with APCD Project Manager Ms. Kanitta Kamolwat after receiving their certificates of participation.

Day 10 - The interpreters (from left: Ms. Kurnia Igie of Indonesia, Ms. Wimol Khuntongchan of Thailand and Mr. Jojo Esposa of Philippines)

Day 11 - Inside APCD service bus (Clockwise: Dandy, Marlene, Ms. Waan from Thailand, Mr. Dara Eang of Cambodia, a lady from Thailand, Edmond, Jojo and Reggie)

Day 11 - Preparing to board Philippine Airlines to Manila

MCCID College Trainor Sir Edmond Guzman Jr. of Tiaong, Quezon and MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa Jr. attended the ten-day Regional Workshop on Accessible Web-based Information Networking in Bangkok, Thailand sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Development Center on Disability (APCD) from September 1 – 11, 2009.

Aside from the two, three other members from the Philippine Team include Mr. Dandy Victa and Mr. Reginaldo Tolentino of Technical Cooperation Division of the National Council on Disability Affairs and Ms. Marlene Mariano from Association of PWDs in Makati City. The team were the largest delegation.

APCD associate organizations from Asian countries like Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand also participated in the workshop. All expenses were paid by the organizers.

During the workshop, the participants were able to understand the concept of information accessibility for PWDs, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Disability Equality, Concept Information Accessibility for PWDs, Concept of Information Networking,
Assistive Devices for Information Accessibility and Information Networking (Disability Focus).

Hands-on training on Joomla Content Management System with focus on W3C/ WAI on different disability (visual, hearing, learning, etc), Accessible Content by CMS were also conducted. Each participant was able to create their own dummy websites which were presented and evaluated by APCD and NECTEC resource persons.

Web Accessibility Initiative Results Among Asian Countries

Web Accessibility Initiative Results Among Asian Countries

One highlight of the event was the NECTEC presentation where the Philippines showed a strong performance among Asian countries and fared well even from other developed countries. This was according to a study made by the University of Worshester Faculty of Computing, UK in 2007. The study was based on the Global E-government Web Accessibility, an Empirical Examination among EU, Asian and African Sites by Ms. Joanne Kuzma.

A total of eight groups were formed out of 26 graduating desf students. There are three members for each group. Something new this year is the adding of e-commerce sites to showcase the deaf products for sale to other countries.

Here is the tentative list of institutions and the deaf lead web designers:

1. Liliane Foundation Philippines – Kerwin Tamanu, Leader
2. National Federation of Cooperatives of Persons with Disabiliy – Anthony Francis Paez, Leader
3. House with No Steps Foundation – Aoi Bacsa, Leader
4. Capitol City Baptist Church Deaf Ministry – Edmond Guzman, Leader
5. Philippine Christian Fellowship for the Disabled Center – Christopher Calderon, Leader
6. Wheelchair for Disabled Foundation Philippines – Pia Joy Matias, Leader
7. Peter Ding Basa’s Pinoy Smile Products (E-commerce Site) – Ma. Ivy Ranola, Leader
8. Rolando Landicho’s Woodcraft (E-commerce Site) – Grace Anne Pico, Leader

Websites must be finished before April 1 in time for their graduation program. Winning website will receive a special cash prize on their commencement exercises which will be tentatively held in May 21, 2008.