Posted on: Friday, June 12, 2009
Donated toys from St. Francis School arrive at Manila children's hospital
Advertiser Staff
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Sheena Joy Malbog helped hand out stuffed animals donated from Manoa's St. Francis School to children at the Philippines Orthopedic Center in Manila. Students at St. Francis gathered more than 600 stuffed animals for seriously ill and impoverished children in the Philippines.
Photo by Cynthia Paguirigan
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Distribution of stuffed animals to seriously ill and underprivileged child patients at the Philippines Orthopedic Center in Manila. St. Francis School students in Manoa answered a request from 2004 graduate Sheena Joy Malbog during Lent to donate toys for the children and they responded with more than 600 donations of their old sleeping companions. In this photo, Sheena Joy Malbog, was joined by her father, Peter Malbog, president of PMJ Builders of Waipahu, as they make their way through the hot and cramped children's ward. The more than 50 beds in th ward are side-by-side and the room is ventilated by only three small electric fans. The ward has a roof but no ceiling. Impoverished parents of the children sleep in hallways to be near them.
Photo by Cynthia Paguirigan
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Stuffed animals donated by students at St. Francis School in Manoa arrived at the Philippines Orthopedic Center in Manila yesterday, where they were distributed to seriously ill and impoverished children.
More than 600 toys were gathered by St. Francis students in response to a request from 2004 graduate Sheena Joy Malbog.
There are still hundreds of toys left in the St. Francis School shipment and they will be distributed by Malbog to needy children at other facilities in the coming months.
Malbog, a 22-year-old actress in the Philippines, was touched by the plight of poor children during a visit to her parents’ hometown of Urdanenta.
She has established a scholarship foundation for elementary school children in Urdanenta.
