An open invitation for Sinait Homecoming Medical Mission 2014

A Friendly message to fellow Sinaitenians and Sinait Alumni—graduate/non graduate, faculty members, former employees.

Aloha: My name is Amado I. Yoro, 1966 graduate of SNHS, and a son of Tapao, Sinait, Ilocos Sur. I am currently residing in Oahu, Hawaii since my arrival in July 1971. I am one of organizers of community and civic organizations including Alumni, provincial and town organizations, include but not limited to Sinaitenians, Annak Ti Sinait Iti Hawaii, Sinait National High School Alumni, and others.

Currently, we are organizing, coordinating and are in the planning stage of an Alumni Homecoming, Medical Mission, and Holy Visitation and Veneration of the Town Patron Saint: the Sto. Cristo Milagroso, known also as Black Nazarene, Apo Lakay and Pugot a Nazareno.

I was assigned by the two organizations: Annak Ti Sinait and Sinait Alumni’s respective presidents Antonio Ipalari, and Davelyn Quijano, with the approval of the board of directors, to chair these special projects. As you are reading this message, we already started simple fundraising activities like the Walk for Fun and Healthy Mind and Body every month since June 2013, and the Bangus Fundraising, longganisa and other means to build our funds. We are looking for all Sinaitenians all over the world or anyone abroad who are formerly from Sinait, whether a graduate, non-graduate, Sinait-born, or married with a son/daughter of Sinait, to join us, call us, or email us. What you see or read in this message are tentative and subject to change:

October-November 2013—Search for interested Alumni and/or Sinaitenians

December-2013-January 2014—Compilation of master List (Amado will be Coordinating with the Medical Personnel in Sinait, and the municipal leaders)

February-March 2014—[In Hawaii] Booking in airlines, preferably PAL with a connecting flight to Laoag

April 15, 2014—First batch arrival

April 25, 2014—tentative medical mission day in Sinait—with volunteers, nurses, doctors,

May 3, 2014-Daytime, put a marker at Dadalaquiten Norte [logo] where the Black Nazarene landed brought ashore by waves believed to have originated from Nagasaki, japan.

May 3, 2014 (Afternoon)—Visitation of the Nazarene inside the altar of the Simbaan a Dakkel and in the evening the Balikbayan and Homecoming Night.

For those residing in the other countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Saudi, Dubai, and US mainland, they are responsible in making travel arrangements

Those in Manila and neighboring cities, provinces, regions, important dates for them to join the Hawaii/US groups will be the April 25 and the May 3 schedules.

Please email your comments/suggestions with respectful discussions in order to put things together in proper order and to have smoother process. Email them to amadoyoro@yahoo.com.

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