Happy, Happy CHILD In July
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This time
around we hired professionals to do the party;
friendly-neighborhood partymaster, Jollibee, did what they
do best - bring out from the Pinoys their natural propensity
to enjoy a good laugh, toss all troubling thoughts aside and
have a good time!
They say that cancer does not only cripple the patients but
maims the other family members as well. Oftentimes,
specially given very scarce resources, we spare these people
few thoughts as concern is focused on the patients.
Yesterday, we saw those, of the patients and the caregivers'
tired, sickness-ravaged countenance come to life as they
partied in gleeful abandon.
Attending for the first time were Tess Chan-Bibera who came
to observe and get to know what the foundation is about so
she would be able to direct help into it, and Segundo Matias,
who came with two huge boxes-full of glossy paged books for
the kids(and parents!) and teenage romance novels. I
quipped - pag dumami ang children sa Childhouse, blame those
romance novels. I can imagine so many afternoons of wistful
reveries for those teeners, those books in hand, thoughts
out there with a conjured prince charming, for we were like
them once.
Certified Child-suki were there too: Noel Mayuga, Mackoy
Villaroman, Jeff Castro, Beth Matias, Leo Riingen and
myself. If only for those two joyful hours we were
repository of heavenly grace in frail earthen jars. And
because of that, we all left the place satisfied and happy
after which we proceeded to partake of a prosaic activity
called late lunch, and their gods were their belly
- hindi naman, gutom lang.
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