SDCA’s Business Administration students dominated the recently concluded 44th Grand Junior Achievement of the Philippines (JAPI) Awards Night held last April 9, 2013 at the Philippine Trade & Training Center (PTTC), Pasay City.  The students’ mini-businesses, KAPA Enterprises and MUSA Generis Concepts, reaped most of the outstanding awards this at the conclusion of this year’s JAPI Entrepreneurial Training Program.  SDCA takes pride on the achievement of its SBCS students.

Have courage
Let me tell you the story of Roselle Ambubuyog (who) remains the most inspiring person I have met to this day.
“My parents did not understand why I had bouts of asthma in December 1985,” Roselle says.  “Not only was I the youngest of four healthy children but I was the only girl and very much cared for. They took me to a … doctor … who prescribed four types of over-the-counter medications, which I had to take for a week … Twelve days before Christmas, I was back to my old self.  But on Christmas night, I was painfully roused from sleep by bouts of coughing and vomiting.  By the time we reached the hospital, I was delirious with fever and blisters covered my body.”
Roselle had Stevens-Johnson syndrome, caused by intolerance to the medication.  She suffered horribly, bleeding, with a 42-degree-Celsius fever and third-degree burns all over her body.  She could not open her eyes because, after they bled, the dried blood fused the lids shut… thankfully, with massive doses of steroids, she was discharged.
Her burnt skin peeled off (and she opened) her eyes to total darkness.  She was away from school for two years.