Staff and volunteers of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) on Saturday, Aug. 14, brought a "Bakuna Bus" to Hospicio de San Jose in Manila to vaccinate senior citizens and staff of the hospice.
(Photo from PH Red Cross) “Regardless of the current challenges that we are facing, the Red Cross will alw
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In May, welfare institution Hospicio de San Jose appealed for monetary aid after going into lockdown after some of its staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
To aid the foster care institution and to help sustain the Lasallian community pantry, the Taft Initiative will be hosting Tahanan Benefit Concert on Saturday, July 31.
“As the effects of the pandemic are still being felt by communities all across the country, people with the best intentions at heart continuously step up to the plate in order to address these problems,” the student-led organization said.
“Whether it may be to provide food for starving families and those in need, to creating projects that serve as an avenue for raising awareness to the different social and political issues at present, the Filipino youth has always thrived in the service of others.”
Philip Cu Unjieng
It doesn’t take a genius to predict that several government corporations and agencies will still be suffering from downward-spiraling revenues and smaller earnings this 2021. If the COVID pandemic was hopefully seen as a flutter to 2020 targets, and much was made of buckling down and absorbing the blows in 2020, and that 2021 would see a steady climb back, those sort of prognostications have been thrown out with yesterday’s trash. For at least the first half of 2021 (just a month and a half away), the shadow of COVID and some form of quarantine will still be looming, affecting us all.
Hospicio de San Jose (Hospicio de San Jose Facebook)
“We are advising the people who are still asking and who have not yet bought their goods, if it’s possible they just give cash assistance because we are really short of cash,” Sr. Maria Socorro Pilar Evidente, administrator of Hospicio de San Jose, said in an interview with CNN Philippines on Tuesday, May 4.
Evidente said they spend over a hundred thousand on medicines for the elderly, special children, and adults every month.
The religious-run shelter was placed on lockdown last week after some of its staff and several elderly contracted COVID-19.
PAGCOR’s volunteer employees unload the food items donated to Hospicio de San Jose. (Photo from PAGCOR)
Located at the Isla de Convalecencia – a narrow island on the Pasig River in Quiapo, Manila – Hospicio de San Jose was placed on a lockdown after some of its staff and several elderly wards contracted coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Hospicio de San Jose is an orphanage run by the Daughters of Charity. According to its Administrative Staff Princess Borcilio, the food supply and other basic necessities started running low since the charitable institution was locked down.
“Mula po ng magkaroon ng lockdown nag simula na pong bumaba ang supply ng pagkain dito sa Hospicio (When the lockdown was imposed, the supply of food also started to decrease here in Hospicio),” Borcilio said.