CWL Visits Camp Karingal Ladies Dorm ‘PDLs’
The Catholic Women’s League of Christ the King Parish conducted their annual outreach in the Ladies Dormitory of Camp Karingal last October 19. The organization has been visiting and conducting this annual outreach for the past 20 years, serving the spiritual and immediate material needs of the dormitory’s ‘persons deprived of liberty’, or PDLs.
In the past, material assistance given included hygiene kits, t-shirts, sanitary napkins, and other personal needs. Last year, 600 utility storage boxes were donated for their personal belongings. This year, CWL donated a 65” LG Smart TV. This will be installed in the facility’s activity center and utilized for the various activities such as for their daily zumba exercise, learning sessions, formations sessions, and others. Also distributed were 1,100 pieces of ‘pan de amerikana ensaymada’.
A short program was also held, highlighted by the signing of a Deed of Donation between Jail Supt. Marie Rose Laguyo, City Jail Warden of the Ladies Dormitory, and Alma Eva Yeh, CWL unit president. This was witnessed by Mrs. Baby Banal, past Unit President of CWL and Senior Inspector Erlinda Turaray, Assistant Warden and Concurrent Chief of Inmates Welfare and Development. The Inmates performed song and dance numbers. As a touching gesture of their gratitude, CertiQicates of Appreciation were given to the Catholic Women’s League unit, to Alma Eva Yeh, and to Mrs. Baby Banal, along with beautiful handcrafted bead bags made by the inmates themselves.
Present during the jail visit were: Alma Eva Yeh, Unit President; Ching Botero, 1st Vice President; and board members Regina Lacson, Ellen Asuncion, Rosa Cayme, Carol Teves, Benith Lozada, and Charminia “Baby” Banal, Past Unit President.
When asked how she felt about the visit, Alma Yeh said, ‘This has truly been a blessed day, Qilled with gratitude for the loving presence and generosity of God through the Catholic Women’s League and Christ the King Parish Greenmeadows. All Glory and Praise to Him!’
