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
