CHERRYLEN T. VILLADIEGO, BNHS Alumna
M.A.P.E.H. Teacher
Balibago Integrated High School
(Batch 2010)
Serving Our Community
Community service is more than just a set of hours; it is a set of actions taken by someone--with the aim of assisting or benefiting his or her community. In particular, it provides many ways to put skills to good use by assisting others who need guidance and assistance. A BIHS teacher, Ms. Cherrylen T. Villadiego, who is also a former alumna in her alma mater has partaken in numerous volunteer activities. Though there are continuous pressure and stress in her teaching profession and personal life, she still serves the community, reinforces talents that she already possessed and she even has developed a new set of skills. She discovered that serving others is an enjoyable experience that catered to her interest. Among her numerous commitment to serving the community, these programs impacted her character in a positive manner and allowed her to feel proud of her accomplishments. Miss Cherrylen stated that " I discovered that helping others can be a pleasurable experience if I can find services that are tailored to my interest. These programs and projects, among my many contributions to community service, have a positive impact on my character and encouraged me to be proud of my accomplishments. Gawad Laguna Inc. has helped me to fulfill my dreams in serving our community. Our rigorous training as a Leader Kabataan has honed me to become a better individual, a piece of art who is in working progress.""
Furthermore, since she is spending time in serving the community miraculously turned her into a happier and happier person, this volunteer opportunity helped her to de-stress and temporarily forget about all of her problems. However, she learned a valuable lesson about duty and flexibility as a result of the ordeal. This shift improved her adaptability and patience, as well as making the experience more unique by inspiring her to try new things. This time of the pandemic, last 2020, she had served and facilitated several community services such as:
Diskartek: Matalinong Paggamit ng Teknolohiya, Sandata sa Pagbangon sa Pandemya
Facilitator / Katuwang na Tagaganap
Nobyembre 08, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
UsaPinansyal: Maayos na Pamamahala ng Pinansiyal, Gabay sa Matatag na Pagbangon mula sa Pandemya
Facilitator / Ulo ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Oktubre 17, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Kabalikasan: Ikaw at Ako. Sandigan ng Kalikasan tungo sa Magandang Laguna
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Setyembre 05, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Oks Lang Ako: Dahil Kasama ko Kayo, Kayang-Kayang Umangkop at Umaagapay sa mga Hamon ng Pandemya
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Agosto 15, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Edukasyon sa Pandemya: Responsibilidad ng Bawat Isa tungo sa Magandang Laguna
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Hulyo 25, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
"Aking Ama, Ikaw Lang Sapat Na", paligsahan sa pagsagot sa tanong na, Saan ko maihahalintulad ang aking ama?
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Hulyo 09, 2020
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Malusog na Pagbangon mula sa Pandemya: Agenda para sa Magandang Laguna
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite para sa Pubmat and Digital Certificate
Hunyo 20, 2020
Via Zoom and FB Live Streaming
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
2020 FB Live Streaming Handog ni Rizal
Panauhing Tagapagsalita
Hunyo 19, 2020
Via FB Live Streaming
Batang Majayjay Organization
2020 Facilitation Skills Training
Ulong Tagaganap
Pebrero 07 – 09, 2020
Santa Rosa Science and Technology High School – Brgy. Malusak, City of Santa Rosa, Laguna
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
2019 Pista ng Kabataan
Art Workshop / Training (Dance and Visual Arts)
Tagapamuno ng Kategoryang Kabataan
Setyembre 15, 2019
Brgy. Ilayang Taykin, Liliw, Laguna
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Gabi ng Pagbubuklod
Facilitator / Miyembro ng Komite
Agosto 24, 2019
Gawad Laguna Inc. - Samahan ng mga Namumukod-Tanging Kabataan ng Laguna
Paghilom 2
Resource Speaker
February 28 – March 02, 2019
Pito – Pito Art Group
The Balibago Integrated High School is delighted to have you as a former student and now a teacher in our institution! Continue to be a source of inspiration for future generations!
by: Ms. Jean B. Evangelista
IVY J. DELIGERO, BNHS Alumna
English Teacher
Balibago Integrated High School
(Batch 2002)
Answered Prayers
A dream come true. A wish granted. A fulfilled desire. These are what I can say as I tell you what my heart wants to say. You’re puzzled by my given statements? Let me tell you a not so long story of my humble beginnings.
Ms. Ivy J. Deligero, a name commonly heard along the halls and corridors of Balibago National High School. Currently the key teacher of Grade 9 (Morning Shift). A name most of the students would not want to meddle with because of her strict/disciplinarian aura. A personality is so strong that even the most stubborn students would not dare to defy. But don’t you know that she is once a student too. A student of Balibago National High School.
Yes, I was once a student of BNHS. I dreamt of becoming someone whom the school would be proud of. I was a mediocre learner belonging to the cream of the crop – the A section. But as I have mentioned earlier, I am an average student with no particular talent, no ability to brag, and nothing to be proud of. All I have is my simple dream. A dream that one day, I will walk in these halls of my alma mater, bearing the name of my school and telling everyone that I am a successful individual.
Looking Back
May 28, 1985. My mother gave half of her life to me. I was born in a remote province somewhere in Mindanao. Although it is kind of isolated, our life there was not difficult. We were living a normal life. I have my family and friends. I grew up as a happy child, the seashore as my playground, the sky was my roof, and vast fields were my cradle. But as a cliché’ stated, change is inevitable. The only permanent in this world is changing. Problems arise, we have to move on. We left our province and ventured into the unknown. My family relocated to a place so far from my hometown. An unfamiliar place, unfamiliar faces, different dialects, it was very hard. My life changed drastically.
Facing the Challenge
I felt I was left behind. During my elementary days, I experienced bullying from my classmates because of my provincial accent-‘Bisayan” tone. They would tease me till I cry. It made me feel I have not belonged anywhere. It was very difficult to adjust. I missed my hometown, my friends, and my old school. But my parents would always say we must bear it all for we can’t go back. Despite those unbearable feelings of isolation and financial difficulties in the family, I learned how to ignore those pesky classmates and accept the fact that we don’t have a choice but to make ourselves be used to our life here. A life that is quite different from what was before. No playmates to play with because we are not allowed to go out for they are afraid for our safety in a place with all you see are strangers. Although my father had a job, we should be very economical and be wise in spending because it was not enough for a family of five. And slowly, I learned how to play in the tune.
When I entered the gates of Balibago National High School, nervousness again strikes me carrying a lot of questions, can I survive here? But to my surprise, everything turned out well. My teachers treated me as if I belong to the place rightfully. During my stay at my alma mater, I made friends, I laughed, I attended parties and programs, CAT, I enjoyed every bit of my high school life. The halls of this institution somehow contributed and made me who I am today. I learned a lot.
College days. All the more that I tried my very best to achieve my goals. I took up Bachelor in Secondary Education major in English at Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sta. Rosa Extension. As I go pass the BNHS every single day, I would utter a silent prayer “One day, when I graduate, I hope I will teach in my alma mater. I will make my school proud of me because I am her end product.” I will make my family be proud of me.
I aspire of reaching my goals. With the help of our God Almighty, my family, and everyone who helped me in achieving it, I became successful. I graduated from college having a bachelor’s degree, I passed the licensure examinations and what else could I ask for, I fulfilled my heart’s desire – To teach in my alma mater, Balibago National High School. To impart to the students what I have gained and what I have learned from this very school who once cater to my little wings and prepared me to face the challenges I may face as I try to traverse this journey called life.
- Ivy J. Deligero
EVIE C. SALAMAT, BIHS Alumna
Education Program Supervisor, Mathematics
Division of Santa Rosa City
(Batch 1992)
There is No Success Without Sacrifices
I am Severa C. Salamat, the second child of Mr. & Mrs. Reynaldo A. Salamat from Dita, City of Santa Rosa, Laguna. A simple and small girl dreaming big for my family, a girl who believed in a saying; “that there is no success without sacrifices.”
I studied my Elementary at Dita Elementary School where I used to be compared with my siblings because they always bring medals every end of the school year and I don’t. But this doesn’t mean I am not good in school but because I’m too shy to participate.
Twenty-three years ago, when I graduated as a high school student of Balibago Integrated High School, It was March 19, 1992, to be exact; I am not the class valedictorian or a salutatorian. If I remember it right, we're just about 200 graduates then, and I am among those ordinary graduates with simple achievements.
When I went to college at the University of Perpetual Help System, Jonelta Campus (Perpetual Help College of Laguna then) and took up a Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Mathematics, it is not in my wildest dream that I could reach one of the highest honors a college graduate could get. And it was my perseverance and dedication to studies that led me to graduate Cum Laude.
Right after my graduation from college, I went to Mary Cause of Our Joy Catholic School as a Pre-school teacher and it was also the time when I took up my Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) and passed. The second-year after I graduated college was not simple, because I resigned as a pre-school teacher waiting to be called for a national item position in DepEd-Laguna, but what I got was a substitute teacher three months in Pulong Santa Cruz NHS, two months in Kaong National High School in the Division of Cavite. Five months after, I was hired as a Local School Board teacher in Biñan National High School for 3 months, and then I was called for a Permanent Item position in Santo Domingo National High School. In this institution I have learned a lot through the guidance of Mrs. Luhinia M. Ofren, I became the liaison officer of the school, the treasurer, PTA secretary, School Paper adviser, Science & Math teacher I can say that I became the right hand of my principal. Which for me, is a great privileged, I helped her in whatever way possible to improve the performance of the school as well as the beautification of the school environment.
It was 2006 when I decided to take up my Master’s Degree at Polytechnic University of the Philippines and right after my graduation in December 2009, I applied for the position of Education Program Supervisor in Mathematics and luckily I was picked among the applicants. January 28, 2010, I started working as Education Program Supervisor, many were questioning my credentials because I was very young then to be in the position, but I have to prove my worth. I work very hard and I can say that I am worthy of who I am now.
I've continued my studies and took up Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Management at the University of Perpetual Help System, Jonelta Campus. It’s never too late to study and it is not a race that whoever finished first will be successful but it is how you perform and how beautiful is your heart for your work and the people in your workplace.
Everything that I am enjoying right now is the fruits of the sacrifices of my family especially my parents to send us to school and be the person they want us to be. I will always be thankful, grateful for all their sacrifices and I will continue to be their daughter making them proud because they deserve it after all.
- Evie C. Salamat
Alumni donate television sets
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