Sundance: A Good Corporate Citizen

Project PEARLS would like to thank Sundance for their very, very generous donation of new children's clothes and foot wear.  All these clothes and foot wear will be distributed to all the children in our different outreach programs. Christmas arrives early for these kids this year!!!

 

Thank you Sundance for your all out support to Project PEARLS and for being a socially responsible and compassionate corporate citizen!!

Ulingan Outreach Project UPDATE

Every first and third Saturdays of each month, Project PEARLS and Photo Kalye are scheduled to visit our children. 

Together, we will be distributing 100 First Aid Kits to the children.  Thank you so much for the following donors who sponsored these kits: Bailey from Quezon City, Ulf Gervelmeyer of Germany, Annie from Georgia, Jordan from Australia, Nylesor from Israel! Angels from all over the world!!!  Special thanks to my BFF/Angel, Annie Fajardo for putting these kits together-from purchasing to packaging! 

Vitamins and Medicines:

1 bottle of Paracetamol syrup 60 ml for Fever- Php 26.10 @
1 bottle of Carbocisteine syrup 60 ml for Colds- Php 30.15 @
1 bottle of Phenylpropanolamine syrup 60 ml for Cough - Php31.50 @
3 Loperamide capsules - Php 1.12 each for Diarrhea (3 pcs each kit) 
1 bottle Ascorbic acid 100 mg 60 ml for vitamins - Php 25.65 @ 

Wound Care Kit:

800 band aids @ 1.25 (8 pieces per kit)
100 bags of Cotton 
100 bottles of Agua Oxenada 

Grand Total Cost for 100 Kits is Php 15,287

Aside from these kits, bags for rice, snacks for the kids, and a special gift for the teacher in appreciation of her hard work, love and dedication will be distributed. 

Photo Kalye (bless their hearts!) will be bringing linoleum for the day care center; they will be installing them to make the floor more comfortable for our children, they will also be bringing other materials to fix and improve the make-shift day care center; they are also bringing food items for the children. 

On top of these all, there will be two volunteer nurses who would attend the children's scrapes cuts, scratches, punctured skins.  

Thank you Cathy and brother, John for coordinating this!! 

It will be a very busy but very, very rewarding and blessed day!!! THANK YOU ALL! 

Our Ulingan Outreach Project

Get Involved. Advocate. Share. Contribute.

Anyone can help.  Anyone can make a difference.  

Our Philippine and USA Volunteers working simultaneously :)

Last night, our USA volunteers were packing snacks for our children in Dagupan and Bulacan.

And while our  Philippine volunteers were packing bags of rice and children's books yesterday afternoon for our Ulingan children to be distributed this Saturday... 

Thank you for making a real difference! You guys hold the power in creating a positive change :) !

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa

Hundreds of malnourished children living in Ulingan are facing starvation on a daily basis. Maybe someday the new Philippine Government will help them by putting together a nutrition and health care program.  But their precious lives are at stake!

And someday is not an option; waiting for the government to help is not an option. Our mission to feed and nourish these children is URGENT!

PLEASE HELP!  We are in need of rice, canned goods, noodles, powdered milk, fresh fruit and veggies.

We just started feeding these kids last Saturday and right now we can only commit to every other week and hopefully with people's generosity we can feed them once a week and eventually every single day!

PLEASE HELP!

Un-break their Hearts

Of all the photos of the children from our volunteers' first visit at Ulingan, these break my heart!

Please help us make in un-breaking their hearts and souls.  Let's help us make them validate themselves that they are beautiful inside and out! 

Project PEARLS, in partnership with Photo Kalye, has an Outreach Program at Ulingan.  Our teams will be visiting these children every first and third Saturday of each month.  

On August 21, we are bringing bags of rice, snacks for the children and First Aid Kits that contain: 

Vitamins and Medicines: 

1 bottle Paracetamol syrup 60 ml - Fever
1 bottle Carbocisteine syrup 60 ml -   Cold1 Phenylpropanolamine syrup 60 ml - Cough 
3 Loperamide capsules  Diarrhea 
1 bottle Ascorbic acid 100 mg 60 ml  - Vitamins 

Wound Care Kit:
800 band aids  (8 pieces per kit)
100 bags of Cotton 100
100 bottles of Agua Oxenada 

We are also mobilizing two volunteer nurses who will take care of the children's wounds and rashes.  

Please help us feed them.  Please help us heal them.  

Get Involved. Advocate. Share. Contribute.

Anyone can help.  Anyone can make a difference. 

I am humbled.

An excerpt from an email from an Angel in Germany: 

Dear Melissa,

I was living in the Philippines for 1 year, between 2006 and 2007, so i´ve seen a lot of your great home country.

When I was in the Philippines for 12 month, everybody, doesn´t matter if rich or poor - was good to me and i´ve got the chance to learn a lot about life and the world. No-one ever has tried to cheat the "rich kano".

The Philippines gave me a lot and opened my eyes a little bit wider than before. People on this planet have to come together and share their values to make a better world. When we will return in 10 yrs we will start business over there again and also we will start social work - because: what is money for ? to get the next bigger car or the next better laptop ? I don´t think so. To look in a smiling kid´s face and to see it growing up with better education and a bigger chance for a good life is much more important than playing around with a new gadget.

The Philippines is a gorgeous country, full of great honorable people. And the country needs much more people like you or Efren to move social things and a global social thinking forward.

Keep on doing this work. Keep on helping people and children. People like you and your helpers are much more worthful for your country than any of the politicians. You help to build the great future of a great country.

I wish you and your volunteers all the best deep from my heart. Always keep your chin up, please never give up.

Best regards,

Ulf 

And I promised I will never give up ... Melissa

God keeps sending ANGELS my way!

If you asked: "Natutulog ba ang Diyos" (Does God Sleep?), I can attest that He doesn't as He listens to my prayers for the children of Ulingan 24/7!!!

Our angel Bailey donated 1500 pesos to help us with our feeding program at Ulingan.  But he didnt stop there, he continues to refer us to other generous people.  And because of Bailey, we are receiving two box full of new children's clothings from Sundance Direct Sales.

Liza, an old college friend, a true angel from the very beginning donated 1000 pesos.

Lorelie, a good friend, an angel with beautiful hair :) donated $30.

My great friend, Chris Roesch and an angel who's been my number one fan patiently made several God's Eyes Crafts for our Ulingan children; donated several children's books and a ziplock full of coins!!

My Prada family in Manhattan, New York donated a box full of classic children's books.

Just yesterday, I got cash donations from people I don't even know or personally met!  They are friends of friends of friends of friends!

Ulf Gervelmeyer , an angel all the way from Germany who's been in the Philippines a couple of times and love our country and Filipinos, made a $100 donation.

Annie, a Filipina angel in Georgia who unselfishly chose to donate her birthday gifts to us instead of buying something for herself.

And  this one breaks my heart, Nylesor Tadeso - she's a Filipino caregiver and Angel in Israel. She gave her hard-earned salary to Project PEARLS to help the children in Ulingan.  

And a great friend of mine, Mr. Anonymous, my mentor angel, donated 18,000 pesos to buy rice each month for Ulingan for one year!

My kindergarten best friend and angel, Annie has been spending countless hours looking for corporate sponsorship and doctors who could help us with our medical mission. 

The Fajardo Angels! The entire family who has been very supportive of all our efforts!!!

Joyce, Malex, Cathy, Mon, Nonoy! My super angels who gets things done and always go beyond expectations!!

Our Pasa LOVE angels in Dagupan!  Thank you for all the inspirations and for always making me cry because you guys always touched my heart with everything you do; for bringing the church to the people instead. I love you guys!!!

Photo Kalye Angels!!!  (A Flickr-based group of aspiring photographers who share the same passion and dedication to document street life as they experience it and in raising social awareness on poverty and the effects it has on our children.) Thank you for allowing us to be your partners in this great outreach!!! And to its President, Peegee - thank you for your patience and humility!!!

Donna Bernardo Rosario, the great angel of Pusong Pinoy!  Thank you for all the encouragement and support.

My baby angel, Francesca! My one and only daughter for dedicating 20% of  the sales proceeds from her t-shirt line, Empire in the Air. And to my husband, Clif for being supportive and understanding.

I am  beyond overwhelmed!!!  It took me several sleepless nights to process all these... I am still blown away by the generosity and kindness of these angels.

I thank each one of you from the very bottom of my heart for sharing my mission and vision for the children of Ulingan and for trusting me and Project PEARLS!

And God, thank you for sending me all these angels!!! Keep them coming :) please as we have a long way to go!!!

God help us!!!

How could it be possible that I am overwhelmed with joy and pain at the very same time???

It finally happened!!! Project PEARLS and Photo Kalye's first teamed-up visit at Ulingan!  I am overjoyed that it finally happened and that those kids were given bags and bags of rice, canned goods, treats, used clothes, books, slippers.

The kids feel so loved and they are so happy!!!

This is just a very small dent in the overall needs, urgent needs of these children and the whole community.

I am overwhelmed too with this heartache with what I saw from these pictures that I can't stop crying.  I am panicking from this sense of urgency inside me.

We have an urgent plea for help for the children of Ulingan. We are in need of the following: Adhesive Bandages, Antiseptic Wash, Children's Vitamins, Cough and Cold Medicine, First Aid Antibiotic Ointment, Rice, Canned Goods, Clothing, Shoes and Slippers, School & Teacher Supplies.

GOD HELP US!

Thank you to all these wonderful volunteers who despite of the inhuman condition of Ulingan, they still served these children with big smiles!

Not only I believe in MIRACLES, I rely on them!

My miracles are my Project PEARLS volunteers, friends and supporters and our new partners and friends, Photo Kalye. 

I have been hurting and crying over these children for over two months now and felt helpless and hopeless; but not only I believe in miracles, I rely on them because tomorrow Project PEARLS volunteers and our Photo Kalye friends will go to Ulingan to visit these children.  They will distribute rice, canned goods, snacks to these kids.

This is just a start of our Outreach Program at Ulingan.  

My utmost sincere gratitude to Photo Kalye for allowing and trusting Project PEARLS to partner with them. And with the great leadership and kindness of Photo Kalye's President, Pedro Gerardo, I am confident we are partners for life in helping these children. 

And thank you Sidney, my friend, for all the inspiration, encouragement and support! 

Project PEARLS + Pasa LOVE = 200 happy children!!!

“It is in the GIVING or the doing that we help ourselves!” The children were served and our volunteers found a purpose: Doing something good for others. 

Thanks Malex for this beautiful video!!! 

Champorado and Comradeship!!!

Champorado cooked and served with love = Priceless Comradeship!  We can't thank you enough Pasa LOVE for the love you pass to everyone around you!  And thank you so much Project PEARLS volunteers for waking up at 3 am, travelled almost 4 hours to Pangasinan from Manila, be of service to these children, and make new friends for life!!! 

Kindred Spirits: Project PEARLS & Pasa LOVE Volunteers

Just yesterday morning at Barangay Pantal, Dagupan City, over 200 underprivileged children were fed with champorado and cheese pan de sal by our Project PEARLS and Pasa Love teams.  

Despite the exhaustion from cooking, traveling, entertaining and serving, our volunteers still went to bed with big smiles on their faces as their hearts (and souls) were fed by gratitude from these children. 

The new friendships formed? It's just an icing on the cake :) 

Thank you guys!!! And thank you Malex for the beautiful pictures.

NOTE: Project PEARLS and Pasa LOVE teamed up for a feeding program in Pantal, Dagupan City.  Started in July, every Saturday morning, over 200 children will be fed with a nutritious meal.  


Please help us continue this program.