Update: Recipients and First Donations
Hello! Based on the results of the survey, the kids with cancer and the elderly will be our primary beneficiaries.
Thus, we chose the KYTHE FOUNDATION and GOLDEN ACRES as our primary beneficiary institutions for this year:
Kythe, for those who are not familiar with it, is an NGO which provides psychosocial support to pediatric cancer patients. Kythe’s Child Life Program is designed to alleviate the anxiety of pediatric patients and their families. It specializes in promoting optimum growth, development and helping he kid patients cope with the challenge of hospitalization. As their homepage says: “Because children should be flying kites, not fighting cancer.”
Kythe is accepting the following donations:
- Chemotherapy medicines
- Hospital playroom equipment (like inflatable gym, plastic toy utensils and fruits, big building blocks)
- Materials for Art and Craft Activities for the children
- Office equipment
- Hospital equipment (like nebulizer, wheelchairs, alcohol)
As with Golden Acres, our lolos and lolas there were among our beneficiaries last year. We gave them six sacks of rice, canned goods, six large cans of Ensure, decaf coffee, six large cans of assorted biscuits, toiletries and old clothes. We hope to give more this year.
Hopefully, we can raise more than enough funds this year so we can also give to other beneficiary institutions aside from Kythe and Golden Acres.
So far, we have already raised Php 17,000 and USD 25 since our first email.
Donations in cash or in kind are most welcome. We can arrange for pick up para di na kayo maabala masyado. For cash donations, just email or text Ginger, Baby or Sheila for the details. To those abroad, we accept donations via Paypal too. Paypal will send a notification email of the transaction pero better na magseparate email din kayo once you have sent your donation para sure.
That’s all for now. Until the next update!
