Let us cherish and honor Maruxa Pita’s lasting legacy of love and service through an excerpt from the article, “MARUXA, Following the Footsteps of Poveda.”
“Maruxa or Señorita Maruxa, as fondly known to most, came to the Philippines in 1959 as a member of the Teresian Association (Institución Teresiana); Maruxa is first and foremost an educator, a teacher. Her dream well resonates with the spirit and style envisioned by St. Pedro Poveda: “a humanizing and transforming presence which finds in the mystery of the Incarnation the inspiration of its being in the world.” She continuously fulfills being salt of the earth with her unassuming stance of evangelizing while educating.
In the early 90s, Maruxa creatively transformed an abandoned space in Poveda into a little classroom for street children loitering about the EDSA Shrine and its vicinity. Soon enough, she co-established the Makabata School Foundation in 1995, providing education, food, and clothing to street children, transforming them into potential leaven of society. – this was Poveda’s Guadix, hers too. With the collaboration and assistance of generous hearts: Queen Sofía of Spain, the AAP (Asociación de Alumnas de Poveda) and other close friends, the school breathes a future full of hope.
The Manila Jaycees (JCI: Junior Chamber International-Manila) and AY (Alfonso Yuchengco) Foundation shall honor Maruxa Pita, a deserving lay individual, with the 24th Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Award 2011 on the 6th of September, at 3:00 pm, RCBC Building.”
Read the entire article by Ar. Bu G. Villanueva through this link: https://drive.google.com/…/1duexIyXxTLn3osNIIbtfd3…/view