Dear Family & Friends,
This week we continue learning in the vast amount of details of our new assignment and visited one of our partner NGO’s (Mabuhay Deseret) who have three homes for patients (with a guardian) for either corrective eye care or club feet treatments in Manila (for the Luzon Region), in Cebu (for Visayas Region), and in Davao (for Mindanao Region). The patients with their guardians live at these homes while they await and recover from various treatments, sometimes for weeks (but often only days) at the expenses of the foundation. This NGO has existing both here in the Philippines and elsewhere (in selected countries) around the World for about twenty-five years. They service hundreds (maybe thousands) of needy patients in these two medical disciplines each week, at a near to free service for the underprivileged. They offer opportunities for each of the families of the needy (in some way) to either help in maintaining, feeding, cleaning, etc. - while being housed or make small financial contributions of running their overall projects. The medical doctors who perform the surgeries and/or procedures - in these various countries offer their skills and help “free of charge” as a way of giving back and lifting their own peoples. The NGO works on a very, very small overhead and performs these services at near to nothing (at less than 25 US Dollars/per surgery/treatment) So much good for so little overhead and costs. The medical doctor, Doctor Jackson, who founded this organization often thought, was the enterprise really worth all the challenge and hard work, along the road (over these years) but every time he thought about stopping – some miracle would come along that would sustain and support their wonderful efforts. Just one the home for patients in Manila was donated by Nuskin Corporation, of Utah – they had monies one year they needed to give away (as a tax write-off) and the foundation needed a new home so they married one another. See the pictures, the little children as beautiful on the inside and we are helping them to be the same on the outside. In fact, not only are we helping with their appearance but improving the function and usefulness of their lives. Your heart goes out to want to help when you see smiling faces and loving hearts like these children. May the Lord bless these good people of the GNO and may this work continue for decades.
With Love and Support,
The Morello’s