Alabang Ladies International Group

The next newcomers coffee with your host Avon McLaughlin is Thursday, August 12th at Avon's house from 10 AM - 12 NN.

Come share your expat stories and advice with all the new arrivals. We look forward to seeing you all there.

For any additional information or directions, call Avon.

March 12th, 2010

ALIG visits two of our charities on a regular basis. We visit Tunasan Drop-in Center every Thursday. We leave the village around 1:00 PM and spend about an hour and a half doing an activity or craft with the children. It takes about 20 minutes to drive to Tunasan.

We also visit Marillac Hills which is a home for girls. We visit every other Monday and our next visit is scheduled for Monday, August 24th. We leave the village around 1:15 PM and spend about an hour and a half doing an activity or craft with the girls. Marillac Hills is located on Zapote Road behind the Caltex station.

If you are interested in visiting one of the charities, please contact Dina Hourihan (Tunasan) or Sheri Baghaie (Marillac) at their mobile numbers. We usually have two vehicles going to both locations so transportation is available.

August 18th, 2009

I am continuing to collect pop and beer cans for Little Sisters. The cans are used in a livelihood project making jeepneys, pedicabs and Christmas ornaments. The cans cannot be smashed. If you would like to donate cans, please drop at my home in Alabang Village.

Feel free to order the jeepneys and pedicabs with me, I wil make sure Little Sisters gets the order.

I received a note from Sister Margaret asking me to thank all the members for all their donations!

Thank you, Ronda Trower

Charity Coordinator

Every fridaymorning, ALIG members can enjoy exchanging recipes.

Want to join one of these cooking sessions? Lessons are free of charge; in exchange we will ask you to kindly host one of the sessions in your home (it usually ends up being twice a year, unless you volunteer more often, which would be fantastic!).

You can attend every session, or you can just come from time to time.

You don't have to be a great cook to join us, we welcome all levels of culinary advancement. You can cook original dishes, typical to your country, your favorite family recipes or even dishes you have learned from a friend or from a TV show, but we ask to use ingredients and spices available to purchase in shops around Manila.

The cooking sessions are every Friday morning from 10 AM to 12 AM, in Alabang, Fort Bonifacio or Makati. 

If you need any further information please contact Eva Woodruff or Willy Nagtegaal.

Are you interested in spending a fun evening with friends? Then Bunko is for you!

Bunko is a dice game that we use an excuse to get together once a month. The rules are simple: the first is throw the dice, while talking to friends,  the second is count your points while talking with friends, the third is record your score while talking with friends. Where else can you win a prize for having the most losses?

We meet on Thursday at a player’s home (rotate). Players take turns providing snacks. If this is something that you think you might enjoy please join us.

Contact Nancy Beachler for more information.

Second hand books, magazines and DVD's for sale! All proceeds go to charity. Buy from the bookstall at ALIG meetings. Books are P40 each or three books for P100. Magazines are P10 each. You can donate reading material at the ALIG meeting as well.

You may also contact our 'book lady', Marisa Garcia-Jimenez, if you cannot come to one of our meetings.

May 26th, 2009

Ann Wagner sent us a beautiful note, she wants to share this with everybody who she's got to know during her time in the Philippines.

Click here to read it.

Crockery is available for rent by any of our members. There is a list of items available with fees for your viewing. If you decided you would like to rent the crockery, please just fill out the order form and email it to Sandy Gantick. She needs at least 48 hours to put together the order. 

ExpatWomen.com, the global website helping expatriate women of all nationalities, announced that the winner of their worldwide expat club competition is the Alabang Ladies International Group (ALIG)! To enter the competition, it was as easy as 1-2-3. ALIG won US$ 1,000 and will be happy to spend it on charities.  

Click here for the full press release.