PP JUNIOR HERO ASHLY CAREL ACUNA'SBIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT PSAC

On October 6, 2018, Junior Pusong Pinoy hero Ashly Carel Acuña celebrated her 13th birthday with an afternoon of fun and games with the children of San Vicente Ferrer in Batangas.  With PP's partner, Parish Social Action Committee (PSAC), the celebration started with a prayer, book reading, games, and delicious meal.  Thank you, Ashly, and to your family for sharing your blessings!

PSAC has been a PP recipient since 2009.  Its mission is to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate in the Philippines, not only by helping them with their needs, but encouraging a positive outlook on life.  PSAC serves the community of San Vicente Ferrer Parish in Banay-Banay, Lipa City in Batangas.  Special thanks to PSAC's President LIZA DE JESUS and all the volunteers for organizing this party and for their tireless acts of kindness and generosity to the underprivileged kids in their community. 

If you would like to celebrate your birthday the Pusong Pinoy way at one of our recipient's locations, please email CTL Jay Martinez or TL Carol Vega at pusongpinoyorg@gmail.com.

Click HERE to see past PP's birthday celebrations.

LITTLE LIGHTS' MESSAGE TO PUSONG PINOY

 

 

 

Little Lights shared these photos to Pusong Pinoy with this message:

"Thank you so much, Pusong Pinoy, for all the educational materials! This meant a lot to our ministry work for these children. God bless you for all that you do to help our marginalized children in the Philippines!" 

Little Lights Ministry has been a Pusong Pinoy recipient since 2010.  It planted its humble beginnings in February 2010 at Sitio Tawi-Tawi along the riverbanks of the Pasig-Cainta boundary where drug dealing, drinking sprees, gambling, and street brawls are a way of life. Out of this concern, Little Lights was born. As the ministry continued its mission, they came across out-of-school and never-schooled children, which led them to start "Learning Lessons," a progressive Montessori-type learning system for ages 2 to 15 years. Little Lights currently serves more than 1,000 underprivileged Filipino children and their love ones to have a better way of life. 

Deeply inspired and motivated by the works of Little Lights Ministry, Pusong Pinoy has been sponsoring their feeding and learning program since 2010. Click HERE to read about other PP projects for Little Lights Ministry.

PUSONG PINOY VISITED "SHIP" CHILDREN'S RECOVERY UNIT

**FACES OF THE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN BLURRED TO PROTECT THEIR IDENTITY**

 

Pusong Pinoy sails off to visit SHIP!
 

On November 4, 2013, Pusong Pinoy team and volunteers visited SAFE HARBOR INTERNATIONAL PHILIPPINES (SHIP) Foundation, a non-profit children’s home located in Baguio City.  It is DSWD-accredited orphanage and recovery facility for severely-ill children.  SHIP cares for neglected, abused, abandoned, and orphaned children.  During this visit, there were 30 children living at the home - orphans, infants, and young children suffering from leukemia, lupus, intestinal hernia, congenital heart disease and other medical conditions.

 

Pusong Pinoy brought groceries, multivitamins, school supplies, arts & craft materials and storybooks.  The children were also treated with a special meal of cake, spaghetti, hotdog, juice, and pizza.  The children were ecstatic!  It was indeed a party, as the little angels ran around, laughed and played with the volunteers. The school supplies, arts & crafts materials and storybooks are invaluable resources which will enable the kids to enhance their reading and creative skills.

MARISSA DE LA PENA, SHIP Baguio Coordinator, is doing a terrific job of ensuring that the children are provided with physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual nourishment that they need. Neglected infants who arrived at the home are now happily thriving and some have started attending school.  On the other hand, the sick children, although not orphaned, stay in the home to receive the proper monitoring and medical attention which their parents cannot provide due to lack of resources and/or they live very far in the Cordillera.

Pusong Pinoy extends its heartfelt gratitude to our HEROES for their contributions to SHIP as follows:

 PP Scotland Team Leader DOUGLAS INNESS & JEAN INNESS

• 2 pax Anchor Fortified Full Cream Milk 700 gms
• 2 liters Bimoli cooking oil
• 3 dozens Tang litro pack powdered juice
• 3 pax Quaker quick-cooking oats 1200 gms
• 3 kgs white sugar
• 6 pax Komeya pancit bihon noodles
• 3 pax Milo chocolate drink 600 gms
• 4 kgs Clara Ole spaghetti sauce
• 4 kgs Sunshine spaghetti noodles
• 1 pax Sunshine spaghetti noodles 450 gms
• 4 kgs Sunshine elbow macaroni
• 4 pax Frito Crunch chicken breading
• 6 pax Bear Brand chocolate powder sachets
• 3 bottles Papa ketchup
• 1 pax iodized salt 500 gms
• 2 pax EQ diapers medium 24s
• 1 pax Huggies diapers medium 80s
• 1 pax Huggies diapers large 68s
• 1 pax Huggies diapers x-large 56s
• 2 tubes Unique toothpaste 150 ml
• 2 kgs Pride Antibacterial detergent
• 1 kg Pride regular detergent
• 5 sets colored pencils
• 1 ream short bond paper
• 5 sets construction paper
• 15 sets colored paper
• 5 pairs crazy cut scissors
• 2 sharpeners
• 7 sets crayons
• 4 boxes glass window art sets
• 9 coloring/activity books
• 3 pcs erasers
• 2 pcs water color kits
• 6 pcs clear glue

 PP Baguio Team Leader MAJOY LUMIWES
• 37 pcs pencils
• 4 pcs glitter pens
• 6 pcs party shades
• 1 set art paint
• 2 sets pastel colors
• 4 pcs paper binoculars
• 2 sets modelling clay
• 25 pairs warmers

 KARINA DELA PENA
• 138 storybooks

 CAB ONE FOODS
• 1 rectangular cake
• 45 pax spaghetti
• 45 pax hotdog in buns
• Orange juice

 PAULA RIVA
• 4 boxes pizza

 ANDRES DUCUSIN
• 59 multivitamins

 

Thank you to all the HEROES for making this possible! ♥

PUSONG PINOY VISITS DAMASCUS FOUNDATION

BY PP SCOTLAND TEAM LEADER DOUGLAS INNESS

The Damascus Foundation is situated in the Damascus Compound, Doña Remedios Trinidad in Bulacan – a couple of hours North of Manila. The complex has a church, dormitories, staff accommodation, a water treatment plant, meeting rooms, dining rooms and a feeding and learning centre, set in a quiet and attractive rural setting.

The Foundation celebrates its 17th birthday on January 25, 2014. Outreach focuses on delivering drug rehabilitation and reformation programmes for groups of boarders. Six years ago, the Foundation decided to play a bigger role in the community, by helping improve the lives of the underprivileged children in the area. It now provides child-feeding programmes, education initiatives for children and the provision of parental support via education and livelihood programmes. 

New livelihood projects include a sewing room which provides employment and training, manufacturing showerproof shopping bags and other items and offering customized embroidery. There is also a high-tech water treatment plant which produces high-quality bottled water. Recent developments include the establishment of a bakery and a mushroom farm. The aim is to provide training, employment and development of products to sell, so that the Foundation remains self-sustainable. Damascus Foundation relies on volunteers and donors to support its work. Pusong Pinoy has supported the Foundation in numerous ways, over the past few years, through food drives and the donation of clothes, slippers, books, and school supplies. In 2013, Pusong Pinoy sponsored 15 Damascus elementary school students. 

I met Robert Tiangco at the Pusong Pinoy Heroes Summit in Manila in July 2012. He spoke so enthusiastically about his work that I was determined to visit the Foundation to learn more. After some coordination, we agreed that I would visit and that Pusong Pinoy would provide a range of items for its 14 male boarders. I also offered to organize a “PhotoWalk” for the boys.

The day finally arrived on October 29, 2013. It was going to be a full Filipino day! After breakfast at the hotel, we wound our way through the traffic log-jam. The first stop was the supermarket to initially purchase a range of toiletries for the Damascus boarders. Fortunately, the budget stretched to some food items, snacks and treats. The items donated are found below:

40 pcs Plus tetra juice 

4 pax Mucho chocolate bars 10s 

4 pax Cuppkeyk Combo Topps 10s 

10 pax Quaker Quick-cooking Oats 800 gms 

14 bars Tide laundry detergent 

14 bottles Clear Sport shampoo 200 ml 

14 tubes Master Hair Wax 

14 bottles Rexona Ice deodorant 25 ml 

15 bars Safequard Guava bath soap 90 gms 

14 tubes Close-up Green toothpaste 

3 pax Bear Brand powdered milk 800 gms 

3 pax Equal white sugar 2.5kgs

Then, it was off on the road to Damascus- the North Luzon Expressway. Motorways aren’t too exciting, but soon we were off into the countryside, zooming past rice fields, palms and villages – everything a sea of vibrant green and blue skies. It was a glorious day. Rice left to dry on the road was a constant hazard! Robert is great company, so the miles zoomed past. We reached the Foundation mid-morning. Robert agreed to show me around. First stop was to give some treats to the young children being fed, while their parents enjoyed a talk in the church. Then, it was off to see the new Livelihood Projects. We visited the sewing room, where new products were being made. The showerproof shopping bags, in attractive colours, are nicely-packaged – an ideal gift. I had a couple of souvenir facecloths embroidered on the new sewing machine– a really skilled job. I was the first customer!

Next stop was the cutting-edge water treatment plant which produces clean, pure water. After a tour round other parts of the complex, we had a really nice lunch. I love Filipino food! After that, the toiletries were “turned-over”, then packed to provide a “goody bag” for each recipient after the PhotoWalk. The Foundation also received a Fuji digital camera from Pusong Pinoy. It was a fortuitous gift, as the old one had recently broken! The afternoon was devoted to a PhotoWalk around the complex.

After a brief orientation, students worked in small teams, using compact cameras, to take a series of photographs outlined on the “task sheet”. We had fun! After the Photowalk, we enjoyed juice, snacks and the toiletries were distributed. Then, it was back to Manila! After a brief detour to visit the local library and hand over some birthday presents, we went to “Mesa”, in Manila- a restaurant serving tasty traditional Filipino food. Yummy! It was also a great opportunity to chat to fellow Pusong Pinoy friends- CTL Susan, TL Jocel, and TL Claudette. This was a wonderful way to end a fascinating day. Thank you to Robert and all the people who worked hard to make this such a successful day.