Thursday, October 27, 2011

COLONY OF HEALERS FASHION SHOW BENEFITING PUSONG PINOY



You are invited to a fashion show by the COLONY OF HEALERS, the first-ever fashion apparel inspired by people in the medical field.

COLONY OF HEALERS FASHION SHOW
Saturday, November 5, 2011
8:30 - 10:30 p.m.
Rolling Stone Lounge
6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Hosted by:
GISELLE TONGI

Performances by:
CLINT GAMBOA
MELODY DEL MUNDO
MARIELLE DELA CRUZ

Thanks, BRIAN MASAYON of COH, for choosing Pusong Pinoy as the beneficiary of this event.  Part of the proceeds will be donated to PP.  
Ticket Price is $10 at the door, but you can GET IT NOW FOR FREE:

enter code: COH to get your free pass

First 200 guests lined up at 8:30 p.m. will receive 200 swag bags.  
Pass includes admission to the party after the fashion show.

Visit their website at WWW.COLONYOFHEALERS.COM
For more information about this event, please contact Brian Masayon
(626) 524-7579 or colonyofhealers@yahoo.com

LET'S GO, HEROES! SEE YOU THERE! 

Monday, October 17, 2011

2011 PP'S DAMASCUS SCHOLARSHIP

BY LONDON TEAM LEADER MIKE HAYES
ROBERT TIANGCO, DAMASCUS FOUNDATION'S FOUNDER, RECEIVING A P50,000 CHECK 
FROM PUSONG PINOY'S CORE TEAM LEADERS BENG DIZON AND SUSAN CHUA

Pusong Pinoy is a Facebook-based non-profit organization which started simply with our founder teaching her children about charity and giving, and has blossomed into a global network of volunteers and heroes, all helping the poor children of the Philippines. The organization is just over 2 years old now and has collected and donated over 30,000 books as well as medical items, food and clothing) for impoverished and marginalized children in the Philippines. It's amazing to think that we can help children rise up from the challenges they face, and give them such a great chance at a better life for themselves and their families.

For our current child-sponsorship project, we are working with the Damascus Foundation to sponsor 10 children who have graduated from their preschool learning center and are now going to an accredited public school. Earlier this year, we sent out a call for sponsors to help these children and we have now met that target.  The good news is that the P50,000 collectively donated by our generous sponsors will cover four additional children.  Now, all 14 children have sponsors to help them through the next academic year in elementary school!

So who are the Damascus Foundation?
The Damascus Foundation is one of our recipient organizations in the Philippines, helping the very poor and their children on a day-to-day basis. Pusong Pinoy works with the Damascus Foundation by helping gather and deliver donations to the Foundation, as we do with most all of our recipients. They do the work immediately to hand, and we assist with getting help in the form of donations, sponsorships, and awareness-raising, as well as direct donations. Click HERE to read more about our work with the Damascus Foundation.

In line with Pusong Pinoy’s permanent policy of complete transparency, we will be updating our sponsors personally with information on their sponsored children, and will be keeping our Facebook Wall and Pusong Pinoy website updated with the progress of the project in helping these children in such an important time of their lives. Watch this space, great things are just around the corner!

PP ELEMENTARY SCHOLARS 
(School Year 2011-2012)
ABEGAIL DUANO
ANDREA NICOLLE TAMALLA
ARJAY AMANDY
ARLENE PEREZ
ERWIN PEREZ
GINA SARMIENTO
HEART GHEM DELA CRUZ
JASMIN FAJARDO
MICAELLA FAJARDO
MONICA GELUA
KAREN SARMIENTO
JANELLA LEGASPI
KYLA MAE LUCIANO
RAIZA MAE CASTRO

Thanks to the following HEROES for sponsoring these children.
You have helped them take one step closer to their dreams!
MARICAR CABASAG/GANO Excel
SARAH & JOWEE ENCINA
PINK ECHIDNA PRODUCTIONS
KARIN HAYES
CARMELITA MORDENO

Saturday, October 1, 2011

PP'S CHILDREN FIRST INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION IN SCOTLAND



Pusong Pinoy is inviting everyone to take part in the "CHILDREN FIRST INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION" at the Netherbow Gallery Space in Edinburgh, Scotland from December 1, 2011 through January 9, 2012. 

This exhibition will capture the essence of Pusong Pinoy's work in promoting literacy to eradicate poverty, where too many children have never seen a book or have limited access to books. We are asking HEROES to submit images which will help us tell the Pusong Pinoy story.  Sharing your photos will help us further our cause – to help eradicate poverty through the improvement of literacy for Filipino children. If selected, your photo will be printed to A3 size and will be a part of the exhibit.  You will retain copyright. 

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF PHOTO ENTRIES:
October 21, 2011

We are looking for photos which illustrate Filipino child poverty as well as the positive actions that Pusong Pinoy has taken to alleviate it. Here are some ideas on which photos will qualify for exhibition consideration:
  • Pusong Pinoy: the beginning (how it all began)
  • Donors with collected books
  • Book drives (collected at events, in cars, in garages, etc.)
  • Mobile or transportable libraries (ex. Baclayon’s Books on Wheels, DLSL Book Mobile Reading Program)
  • Boxes being shipped
  • Reading programs showing shelves or crates of books, volunteers and children
  • A volunteer reading a story to a child
  • Kids reading
  • Recipients themselves showing different kinds of emotions
  • Pusong Pinoy scholars
  • Turnovers of donations to Pusong Pinoy recipients
  • Christmas project (Project Pamasko ng Pusong Pinoy)
  • Pusong Pinoy birthday blowout
  • Kids eating, reading, and listening to storytelling
  • Kids happily inspecting their goody bags  
  • Pictures of sad kids or happy kids in a sad background
  • PP volunteers working
  • PP volunteers delivering packages
      OR aspects that will get visitors concerned and interested: 
  • The Philippines
  • Poverty in the Philippines
  • Filipino childhood
  • Filipino kids at play
  • Filipino life/street life in the Philippines
  • Learning in the Philippines
  • Children’s successes
  • PP work - making a difference
  • Work of recipient organizations
If you feel that you have strong images, please contact us via Facebook or pusongpinoyorg@gmail.com.  You can also email your photos directly to:

DOUGLAS INNESS (PPC Link)
Scottish Pusong Pinoy Coordinator
douglasinness123@btinternet.com

We prefer the original photo files from your hard drives. Jpegs are fine. This ensures the best quality for printing. Photos posted on Facebook are reduced in size, decreasing their resolution. To ensure that we get the best quality photos, please email the photos in their original sizes. Of course, if you have a great image, just get in touch!

Let’s go, HEROES! Spread the love for the Filipino children!