On a mission to help Filipino children

Pia Corvera, 22, rode in a jeepney, a means of transportation popular in the Philippines, down the slope from the hillside facility where she stays with others, to a silent beach in Subic Bay.

She said she felt happy when they were all together.

A slogan written on the side of the jeepney proclaims, "Helping people helping themselves." Pia says she likes the slogan very much.

On Oct. 27, she departed for Japan to visit friends who made the kind of efforts that allowed them to donate the jeepney to the facility.