Mutya Ning Pilipinas 2023 Joanne Marie Thorley spent time, shared food and had fun with the children at Bale-Balayan on Monday, 08 April

Anak Bale-Balayan expressed thanks for Thornley’s thoughtfulness.

“𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡 𝑝𝑜 𝑠𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑏𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑦𝑜 𝑠𝑎 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛. 𝑊𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑎𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑑 𝑠𝑎 𝑖𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑔𝑎 𝑡𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑚𝑎𝑚𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑎 𝑖𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑔𝑖 𝑠𝑎 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛. 𝐻𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑘𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑎 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛, 𝑙𝑢𝑏𝑜𝑠 𝑛𝑖𝑦𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑜𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑔𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑏𝑖 𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑖, 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑔𝑎 𝑝𝑢𝑠𝑜 𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑚𝑎𝑚𝑎ℎ𝑎𝑙.”

According to Executive Director Peter A. De Vera, Bale Balayan Museum for the Poor, which opened in 2014, was”conceptualized under the vision of making arts and culture reachable and available to everyone, even to the poorest of the poor.”