20 Jul, 2009
The restaurant Mamou, at Serendra in Fort Bonifacio turns two on Tuesday, 21 July 2009. And to celebrate this milestone, they have again pledged to donate ALL OF THE REVENUES (excluding VAT) from their restaurant on that day to the Marketmanila.com feeding program at the Tenement Elementary School in Taguig, Metro Manila. …
14 Jan, 2009
Donations to the marketmanila.com feeding program are still trickling in. Please check for specific transfers/remittances here. Your generosity will be greatly appreciated by the students we are helping at the Banawa Elementary School. It is appropriate that I share with you this recent development which is rather positive. A couple…
23 Dec, 2008
This year’s marketmanila.com feeding program has raised roughly PHP520,000 (almost $11,000) so far!!! That will provide some 22,000+ meals for undernourished public school children through next November 2009! A huge thank you to the generous donors who came to the various pick up points and left generous donations and picked up the Christmas ornaments…
05 Dec, 2008
Her name is Elizabeth, aged 7 and in Grade 2. She was the photogenic girl whose image I used in the cards printed for this year’s fund raising program. She comes from a large family with many siblings. Mother is working in Manila, father struggles to feed all of the family….
26 Nov, 2008
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day in the United States, the country that records the largest number of readers of this blog, vying closely with readers based in the Philippines. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and I love the idea of celebrating a bountiful harvest, to have a big gathering of family and…
25 Nov, 2008
Perhaps as many as 60-70% of all Filipino students today never manage to finish and graduate from high school. The data is a bit sketchy and less than reliable, but I suspect the range is pretty accurate. I am not sure what percentage then go onto finish a four year college program,…
24 Nov, 2008
Finally, after the eyeball and a horrible cold/cough that followed it, I can concentrate on the marketmanila.com feeding program for 2008. In a post a few weeks ago, I asked you how many would be willing to continue to support the feeding program that we started last year, and which has so far…
04 Nov, 2008
The year was 1984. I was a sophomore in college. The song was “Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” and it raised millions and millions of dollars for the starving in Africa. Organized by Bob Geldof and sung with, among others, Sting, Boy George, Bono, Simon Le Bon, Tony Hadley,…