IMPACT AUGUST 2015
Unbound alumna and civil engineer Rechelle pauses for a photo on the job site of the new Antipolo community building.
C RE ATING OPPORTUNITY
ENGINEER BUILDS ‘A FOUNDATION TO HELP PEOPLE’
S
he remembers days as a college stu-
engineering from the Western Institute
dent when all she had to eat was one
of Technology in Iloilo.
boiled egg — cut in thirds for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It was in those days, especially, that Rechelle Reaño relied on her faith.
It took a lot of hard work and sacrifice to get through five years of an engineering program. A scholarship from Unbound helped but her road wasn’t
“My motto is ‘God is good all the time,’”
easy. She had few advantages beyond
she said in an interview earlier this year.
her exceptional math skills and the sup-
“He didn’t leave me through my suffer-
port from her sponsor and scholarship.
ings, and I graduated.”
People from her neighborhood told her
Rechelle is 24 years old and from the
she wouldn’t make it because engineering
Visayas region of the Philippines. She
school is expensive. Her parents couldn’t
was sponsored for 11 years through
help with four other children to support.
Unbound’s Antipolo program, and in
Rechelle tutored math students at a
2013 earned a bachelor’s degree in civil
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Rechelle (left) stands with staff, alumni and board members at a groundbreaking for the Antipolo center.
BACK TO SCHOOL
GREETINGS FROM ABROAD
Unbound helps sponsored students achieve a level of education that prepares them to compete with their peers for jobs. Sponsored members are no longer at a disadvantage educationally in their communities and, as they leave the Unbound program, are better equipped to create paths out of poverty. (See graphic on back.)
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