Archive for the ‘Outreach’ Category

For our first year, our beneficiary for our Outreach Program was Jesus Loves the Little Children Foundation.  It is located in Pinagbuhatan, Pasig.  JLLCF was established out of a deep conviction to meet the needs of the orphaned, neglected, abandoned, and/ or abused street children in Metro Manila. They have in-house orphans and they offer educational program for children in the depressed area.  JLLCFI’s Education Program aims at providing the basic right of every Filipino child to education. JLLCFI facilitates the processing of documents for the children’s admission to formal education. Through Educational Sponsorship a child is guaranteed formal education with provision of tuition fees, school supplies and bag, books, school projects, transportation allowance, field trip and snacks, medical and dental care.

For our second year, our Beneficiary was Tahanan ng Pagmamahal, located in Oranbo, Pasig.

This orphanage was established in 2007 by a group of friends led by Rey and Myrna Ortega. The seed money came from tithes lovingly saved up for 3 years by the Ortega family. Initially, some children were housed in Antipolo, Rizal but due to lack of basic facilities, they were transferred to the residence of Rey and Myrna for almost six months until the house at 146 Saint Francis, Barangay Oranbo was rented to Tahanan. The owner of the house, Gabby and Chit Alberto,(Chit is a high school classmate of Myrna), generously rented the 2-storey house for only 10K/month. Another generous benefactor shouldered the monthly rental for one year.
At present, there are 15 children, 2 house mothers, 1 OIC and 1 social worker taking care of the kids. Six of the children go to the public elementary school nearby while 2 are attending the Special Education school in Pasig.
The Light of Jesus Community, under Bro. Bo Sanchez, has taken the orphanage under its wings. At the moment, LOJ members have been doing lots of volunteer work – teaching the children, arranging medical/dental missions, sharing food and other items for the orphanage.

This year, hopefully we can push through with our Outreach Year 3.

Why do we choose kid’s orphanage than the old one’s shelter? It’s because we are all working, and we can’t possibly make a good program for the old ones to appreciate. With the kids, a Jollibee party would make them really happy.

How do we choose the orphanage / shelter we visit.  We just want an orphanage which is not so popular. An Orphanage which really needs help. Popular shelter have the tendency that they are already receiving lots of donation from different from group or individual. Kids ages are from as young as 3 to 12.

source: boplanet.com, jllcf.com

This was our theme last year:

As early as February we were already organizing and looking for pledges for this event.
Since, our forum is dead already , we didn’t plan this immediately.
But we want to pursue another Outreach Program this year.

We are still thinking of the theme, participants, budget, and all.

If and only IF, some bloggers would commit to help in any way they can, the theme can be something like

Forumers and Bloggers Unite for a Cause

what do you think? are you willing to help?

Still.. we are on the brainstorming process….. Feel free to suggest….

Before the event

At mommy Baby’s home, we are arranging the things we will give each kid.

Trip to the Orphanage

After the Event

A little bonding with the forumers

Busy Taking pictures

It’s 2010 now, and I think it’s time for Outreach Program Wave 3. But since the forum is dead now, we are thinking of a theme for the event.

How about you bloggers, would you be interested to join an Outreach Program? Are you willing to help in anyway?

He is our main guest for the two Outreach Program we had. The kids love Jollibee, oh, not just the kids, the grown ups are so star struck with him. Outreach Program Year 2 happened in 2009, our beneficiary wasTahanan ng Pagmamahal in Kapitolyo Pasig. Volunteers for the event are the members of a forum we used to call Banidad, Kissy, Mei, Dhey, Kharmz, Olive, Lene, Rose, Chii and BF, Kim and of course Paulo, our sweet and diligent organizer.

We didn’t give banner for this orphanage this time, they prefer to receive foods. We gave them sack of rice, canned and frozen foods. We also gave each kids their own bags filled with different supplies

The experience was great, all had fun and of course we had a little bonding after the event. watch out for the next post.

By the way, see those black shirts, it’s what we give to volunteers and to those who pledge cash and kind for the event.

We had our first outreach program last 2008 at Pasig, the name of the orphanage is Jesus Loves the Little Children Foundation. We are a member of a forum called Banidad. no links..haha.. it’s not existing anymore, and Paulo, suggested that we do something good.

the kids have a lot of fun, and of course the kids at heart had fun also

We had our own blue shirts, as a remembrance, it also served as our uniform that time. A member of the forum, of course our friend, Ems, gave a donation,as part of her birthday celebration. It was so kind of her, right? So, our sweet Paulo did something for her

oh yeah, the aim of the title, is to let the outreach participant reminsce those days. hahaha. I’m already asking them if they want to have a Year 3. and Paulo the organizer needs a little encouragement so he will organize the outreach again. hahaha. where are you paulo? hahaha

Outreach year 2 post, coming up. hehehe