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LCW recently established a chapter in Vancouver, WA, under the able leadership of Marciana Hope. This was done with the purpose of administering a project in Ingan, Leyte (ILP), an island east of Negros in the Philippines. Ingan is a small village with very limited job opportunities and the minimum wage is only the equivalent of $3.00 per day. The project, like LCP Dumaguete on Negros island, endeavors to empower disadvantaged children and their parents so they may escape poverty and emerge as strong, self-supporting families with Christian values.For more information on the program contact the Leyte Program Director .
Marciana is a Filipino-American and holds an M.A. in Special Education from
the University of Oregon. She retired in 2002 from 22 years as a Special
Ed. teacher in Middle and High School. She also served as a consultant at
schools in the area. In the 1970s she did mission work under the United
Church Board for World Ministries at Mizpah High School on Truck Island
in Micronesia where she served as High School teacher and Dean of Girls.
The LCP Ingan, Leyte project helps to fulfill a long-held dream of the LCW administration to replicate the LCP Dumaguete model in other parts of the Philippines and elsewhere. Already Marciana and her sister have started a pre-school, a college scholarship program for worthy High School graduates, and a child sponsorship program.