Did you know that staying at
home during this Covid-19 pandemic is one of the best way to fight the virus?
Healthcare workers refer to people staying at home as “our wartime air and artillery support. The more people who stay at
home, the more chances we can contain and fight the virus”. Stopping the
spread of this deadly disease means pushing the pause button in our daily
lives. It is a sacrifice we all must do to ‘flatten
the curve’ of infection. However, and understandably so, many people suffer
anxiety because they cannot go out and help. Unfortunately, as this virus
continues to spread, going out of our homes will only invite more risk than
produce much-needed help to our fellowmen.
Good thing though, there are
several volunteer outreach groups you can help even as you remain in your own
home. Here are a few of them:
Better Basics’ Little Big Help
Moha Barakat, owner of the
small clothing shop Better
Basics, along with her team of seamstress and a few friends,
organized "Little Big Help". It is a fund-raising that aims to raise
fund to procure materials to create protective suits to our frontliners. Their starting
goal is to raise 45,000 pesos to produce 150 protective suits.
“As
a business, our key resources are our seamstresses, access to fabric, sewing
materials and machines so when the need for producing and donating Protective
Suits became widespread, we figured that we can somehow help. We just wanted to
help a little, beginning with a target of 150 for 2 hospitals. We started by
collaborating with another project, Marisci Fights Back, and now, Better
Basics’ lines stay open to our friends and their friends who may need help
sourcing suits for various beneficiaries of their choice. We also invited some
of our customers at @better.basics to let us know if they need PPE
donations so we can match the needs with the supply that we have” says
Barakat.
How to HELP:
Read more information at Little
Big Help
Climb Against Cancer’s Homecooked Meal for Frontliners
Because our frontliners have
been working around the clock since the outbreak of Covid-19 in our country,
most of them do not have the time to cook and prepare a healthy meal for
themselves. Enter Climb Against Cancer. Originally consisting of mountaineers
involved in various outreach programs dealing with cancer patients, the group
progressed to expanding their causes to help the different sectors in our
society.
Today, Climb Against Cancer
members led by Nini Andrada Sacro, has been cooking homecooked meals for our
frontliners. Since the lockdown happened, they have delivered meals to several
hospitals like Philippine Heart Center, PGH, Cardinal Santos Hospital, National
Kidney Institute, Olivarez General Hospital, RITM and Dr. Jose N. Rodriguez
Memorial Hospital.
“This
is my first time cooking for our frontliners. I am used to cooking for school
kids every time we have a community outreach. I intend to cook as long as
people keep supporting our little mission. After I posted about the food packs
for Heart Center, friends and family started sending me donations and food
ingredients to cook for our frontliners”, Nini Andrada Sacro
said.
How to HELP:
Join the Climb
Against Cancer FB group or contact Nini Andrado Sacro on
Facebook.
Poveda Hermanas Batch 2004 Donations for Frontliners
The ladies of Poveda 2004
made the most of their stay-at-home stint by organizing a fundraising for our
frontliners. To date, they have raised more than 1 million pesos in cash
donations. The girls used the money to purchase various medical gears such as
Latex Indoplas gloves, head covers, KN95 and N95 masks, disposable gowns, PPE
sets, face shields, isopropyl alcohol and more—and has donated these to more
than a dozen hospitals already.
How to HELP:
Read more information at Poveda Hermanas 04 FB Page.
2KK Tulong sa Kapwa Kapatid Foundation
2KK was founded in 2003 by a
group of then-teenagers and started out organizing activities for children in
various communities. Today, 2KK has evolved into an organization that focuses
on helping less-privileged youth attain education.
When the Covid-19 pandemic
spread in the Philippines and an expanded quarantine was enforced, 2KK wasted
no time in raising funds for the affected. According to their Facebook page as
of March 29, 2020 they have provided 2,800 meals to communities in 12 different
areas in Metro Manila, 1,050 meals to frontliners in 7 hospitals and 2,070 food
packs for daily wage earners and their families (of 5-7 members) in 10
different areas in Metro Manila.
How to HELP: Visit
the 2KK
Facebook Page.
