UST LOTUS Project

24/04/2026

22/02/2026

Celebrating my 1st year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉

11/01/2026

I got over 10 reactions on one of my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

19/11/2025

19/11/2025

This just happened! CFAD faculty Art Relay at the CFAD Week 2025.

These canvases transformed through multiple creative minds!

A CFAD Faculty Development Committee activity facilitated by and in collaboration with the UST L.O.T.U.S. Project

12/07/2025

SERENDIPITOUS.

Today is the finale event to cap the UST L.O.T.U.S. Project with PAGSIBOL: GRADUATION PROGRAM.

PAGSIBOL signals the start of a new experience for the vulnerable children, having completed 6 art workshops, and a UST campus/museum tour.

Sibol means growth and new beginnings. As we officially end the UST L.O.T.U.S. Project today, we are thankful for the opportunity to serve and use our talents and resources in giving back to society. Beyond the modules, we also learned from the children and in some instances, surprising us with their thoughts and wisdom. How they used their pain, trauma, and bad experience to heal and be better is in itself, a win for them. There is growth, new beginnings, and hope for these children.

A happy day to celebrate SIBOL. May these children bloom again like a lotus flower.🪷

Only better days ahead, hopefully. ✨

09/07/2025

We got over 10 reactions on one of my posts last week! Thanks everyone for your support! 🎉

29/06/2025

And it’s a wrap!

Sining Galing Art Enrichment Workshop is done. For 3 Saturdays, art facilitators conducted workshops for the children (ages 3 yo to 20 yo) of Heart of Mary Villa (HMV), Religious of the Good Shepherd. Our encounters with these kids ignited in us a new way of empathic teaching. The hands-on and informal teaching allowed them to explore their creativity.

What endears us is how thankful they are after each session, telling us how much they have learned. More importantly, knowing that these arts and crafts made them happy and engaged, and said that they can continue doing these even after they leave HMV, inspire us to do better.

These weekly sessions gave us the opportunity to listen to what they cannot say verbally but were able to tell through their works. In hindsight, as art facilitators, we were challenged on how to create modules that will allow them to creatively share their thoughts through arts. These kids, having been robbed with a happy youth, broken by people they trusted, extracted from the community they thought was safe, and hurt by the harsh realities of life - yet, seeing their works knocked us off our senses - that they can still hope for a better life. Who are we to deny them of this lifeline? In a judgmental society, how can they survive if we do not help them in our own little way? So we give back through our talents and resources, to prepare and equip them as they heal.

We walked the talk - the gift you have received, gift as a gift. As Thomasian educators, we carry with us the teachings of Papa Francisco aka Lolo Kiko - think, do, feel.

It takes a village to raise a child. And when a child is lost, we give them a new path to take so they can find their way back home. Like a lotus flower, may these kids bloom again after all the hardships, and rise from the muddy waters.

This is our story. It has been an endearing journey. Thank you for the opportunity.🪷