Donations 2005
The Knights of Rizal donated 100.000 pesos again this summer to the Knights Orthopedic Trust of the PGH for more operations. We also donated 100.000 pesos for the Quezon Province for the homeless.
May 2005
We always need more funding so do please give generously
from left to right: Angelou Morales waiting for her operation. Patient in the ward undergoing treatment paid by the London Chapter. Patricia Toledo after her operation.
Pediatric Orthopedic Ward in the Philippine General Hospital. We donated new beds for the PGH for the Knights of Rizal and Maclariz London Chapter Ward. We have also paid for all the traction equipment for the beds. The young lady has been waiting patiently for her operation and now she has had the operation and is on the way to a full recovery.
We are now setting up small libraries in the PGH for the children and if they want to, they can take the books home when they are discharged. The bookshelves are refilled every time they are getting empty. These books are donated by the London chapter.
On Christmas Eve this year Father Christmas is paying a call on all the children in the wards at PGH to distribute soft toys for them to cuddle in their beds.
Knights Burial Society
Our latest activity or project is the setting up of the Knights Burial Society. This is to help with paying for funerals of poor children who have no means of meeting the costs of a burial.
It is very hard for parents not be able to help their children and see them die, because they don`t have enough money to buy medicine or pay the hospital costs. Who can imagine how hard ist must be for parents as well not to be able to even give their children a decent goodbye.
Many of them are desperate and though they are already poorer then poor, they will try everything to give their child a burial we all want to give our beloved ones. Thus many of them wil even run deeper into debts and they will have nothing left for themselves and their other children. Their misery will even get bigger if possible at all. We ought to help for the decency of the dead and the chance to survive for the living.