On July 6, 2009, Pusong Pinoy launched its first FOOD DRIVE CHALLENGE between Team Pusong Pinoy and Team Edwin Dayrit Rodriguez. It was a race to complete a list of food items for Damascus Foundation. Both teams completed the list, but Team EDR won in a matter of minutes! Total food items worth PHP100,000 were raised during this challenge.
Damascus Foundation is a non-stock, non-profit foundation located in Dona Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan in the Philippines. It is a home for drug dependents, street children, and individuals with behavioral problems. It caters mostly to charity cases; youth who have been victimized by the drug menace in our country. Its holistic approach to rehabilitation aims to give hope and provide opportunities for a normal and functional life, providing these kids with physical, mental, and spiritual development.
Apart from its rehabilitation center, Damascus have now embarked on a loftier and more empowering mission: to nurture back to health and educate undernourished children in its town and provide livelihood opportunities to their parents by way of the Damascus Learning Center (DLC). A lot of children in far-away barrios of their town do not have the access to preschool or kindergarten education. Most of their parents cannot afford to send them to school because of financial difficulties. For this reason, Damascus opened a preschool (Kindergarten and Preparatory level) for the children of indigent families of the town. DLC also provides school supplies, uniforms, and food/snacks to these children.
