Gift-giving

The Gift-giving Program is the signature program of Feed the Hungry, Inc. that launched its charitable endeavors. Gift-giving projects are undertaken to address immediate needs such as shortages in food and sanitation supplies, especially in poor communities. Gift-giving activities are short-term stop-gap measures meant to bridge efforts to lead communities to self-sufficiency while recovering from calamities or confronted with long-term problems due to poverty.

Gift-giving activities are mostly undertaken by FtH volunteers in coordination with various non-governmental organizations, local government units, Social Welfare and Development Offices and other private individuals in various sectors in the Philippines. The Gift-giving Program, with its team of volunteers from the Washington, D.C. area, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Kona, Hawaii joined by local volunteers, has distributed about PhP11.7 million worth of gift bags (containing food items, school supplies, toiletries, toys, and medicines, among others) to indigent orphans, street children, the sick, handicapped and elderly, and disadvantaged communities in the Philippines since 1993.

From January 1, 2011 to October 15, 2011, the gift-giving activities accounted for PhP776,078.40 of the total FtH donations. Benefiting from these gift-giving activities were families, students, and indigent children in the following places:

Beneficiaries	Project Area
500 Dumagats	Montalban, Rizal
200 families	Sun Valley, Parañaque
140 pre-school children	Banusing Serdena Elementary School, SAC Pre-School Extension Program, San Jose, Antique
289 elementary students	Talingting Elementary School, Carles, Iloilo
200 families	Our Lady of Pillar Parish, Las Piñas City
150 families	Litex, Payatas, Quezon City
20 girls	Laura Vicuna-Home of Sexually Molested Girls
250 families	Cabuyao, Laguna
150 families	Siargao
100 SPED students	Indang, Cavite
100 SPED students	Rosario, Cavite
250 families	St. Joseph Church, Tambo, Parañaque
250 families	Padre Garcia, Batangas
150 families	Brgy. Baluarte, San Juan, Batangas

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December 17, 2012

To our dear friends and FtH supporters,

On behalf of the Feed the Hungry Executive Director, Chairperson, Board of Directors, I am attaching two documents:

1. An appeal to you to please consider the cry for help of those in New Bataan/Compostela Valley/Cagayan de Oro (again), hit by Typhoon Pablo (International name: Bopha) on December 4, 2012. Typhoon Pablo is considered the worst typhoon (more so than Typhoon Sendong) that hit the Philippines this year.

So many lives were lost. Those who survived were left without homes and all their belongings were wiped out. There is so much misery all over—here, we are blessed, safe in our own homes. But, we just cannot ignore the plight of our kababayans. Thus, we are knocking on your compassionate and kind hearts to ask you to please help them.

FtH is ready to render emergency assistance in partnership with Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) and in coordination with National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council (NDRRMC) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

View Typhoon Pablo Appeal

2. FtH’s Typhoon Sendong Progress Report so that you know how your donations for the Typhoon Sendong victims and their families were spent—that every cent you donated through Feed the Hungry, Inc. benefitted the intended victims.

Sendong Progress Report - December 2012

Kindly take note of the picture of the just-completed two classrooms— complete with student desks, teacher’s table and chair, upgraded boys and girls comfort rooms with flushing toilets—that will benefit 100 school children every year in Indahag, Cagayan de Oro. The later classrooms that are being built through FtH are supplied with electric fans. FtH is looking into the school water supply system and is also trying to provide them with books.

Indahag Elementary School Report

May we please hear from you? Please allow us to be your “Messenger of Mercy.”

As always, thank you for your kind support.

Tessie Alarcon
Calamity Assistance & Rehabilitation Endeavors (CARE)

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