The Friends of the PGH

MONTHLY MEETING REPORTS FPGH DONATED KARAOKE SYSTEM FOR DOCTORS AND NURSES

The FPGH Monthly Meeting held last September 8 2022 updated the members of activities that had been accomplished and what need to be completed. As part of the FPGH support to the health and wellness programme of PGH for its nurses and doctors, the FPGH has recently donated a set of karaoke and TV equipment to enhance the mental and emotional well-being of the busy PGH frontliners. For the other on-going activities, the following updates were discussed- 1) the FPGH members' tour of the upgraded facilities of PGH remained up in the air due to increasing Covid cases; 2) the Online Charity Auction project has received around 21 donated auction items and will continue to solicit more items in order to meet the deadline of end of September; 3) the preparations for the celebration of the 38th Founding Anniversary of FPGH in October are ongoing where a total amount of Php193, 000 had been solicited so far to support the gift giving and various activities planned out for the celebration; 4) the groundwork for the fund-raising Art Exhibition has started dated for early next year at either SM Megamall or Robinson Magnolia with high profile artists to be invited, and which also includes side activities such as portrait painting and painting tutorial lessons; and finally, 5) the fund-raising golf tournament has been scheduled for March 2023 at Santa Elena Golf Course.

FPGH Donates to Neonatal ICU Department

Last August 5, 2022, the Friends of PGH turned over its donations of six pieces of weighing scales, 10 pieces of orbit fans and 30 pieces of Neo Smart Canulla, and oxygen flow nasal canulla. The facilities were received by NICU staff, namely Mr. Tirso Roxas and Ms. Daisy Panagsagan, both nurses and Ms. Deborah Evangelista, Ward Assistant from FPGH Secretary, Grace Ang.

Apart from this activity, the FPGH held its monthly meeting last August 4 2022 to plan for the implementation of the following activities:

1) Charity auction to be conducted online through Viber platform during the last week of August. The donation of auctionable items will close on August 15.

2) The celebration of the FPGH 38th Anniversary will be held this October which will consists of a mass, induction of new members, online party, and gift-giving to indigent patients of PGH. The fund drive for the 38th Anniversary celebration has raised a total amount of fifty thousand pesos so far and is ongoing.

3) To contribute to the wellness program of the PGH frontliners, The Friends of PGH will donate a karaoke set and two television sets as a wellness package this August.

4) The Art Exhibition with a theme of health and wellness is slated for the first week of February next year. It will be held either at Magnolia Robinson or SM Megamall by the Heritage Gallery. The proceeds from the Art Exhibition will be shared between FPGH and Heritage Gallery. The event will also include a portrait drawing/painting by selected artists from the UP Saturday Group.

5) The fund-raising golf tournament has been rescheduled for January 2023 at Santa Elena Golf course.

6) The PGH tour to update and familiarize the FPGH members of the new facilities at PGH has been postponed until it is safe for seniors as Covid cases is on the rise.

May 2022- May Monthly Meeting Drew Up Activities for the Year

As a result of the monthly meeting of FPGH last May 2022, the following activities were drawn up for implementation this year. Support to PGH in 2022 

Support to PGH

To plan a meaningful and useful support to PGH, it was suggested to identify first what objects of support are the priority needs of PGH and based on that, allocate a substantial budget for the year. This budget will also serve as the target amount to be raised by the fund-raising activities of FPGH.

The first donation of FPGH to PGH this year comes in the forms of important baby items such as cannula with short sleeves, manual weighing scales and electric Orbit fans to Neonatal ICU v As recommended by Dr. Gap Legaspi, the FPGH will provide health and wellness support for the frontliners of PGH by organizing Zumba sessions for them twice a month

The FPGH is currently a-washed with funds and can provide free medical supplies, ultrasound, CT-scan, MRI, laboratory tests to their indigent patients. It was suggested by PGH that once these hospital funds get depleted, it will call on FPGH to continue supporting the patients in these treatment areas.

Grace has helped on her own the enlisting and treatment of patients at PGH from scheduling with doctors, to treatment and follow-up. She was asked to document these personal assistances for inclusion in the record of support given by FPGH to PGH.

Fund-raising Activities

Obtain a list of happy patients who recovered from their treatment at PGH and solicit donations from them. v Organize a golf tournament sometime in February 2023 at Santa Elena Golf Course. To make this viable as a fund-raising event, Renee will get a 50% discount from the Green Tee or playing rights at Santa Elena Golf Course. The Golf Tournament Committee is composed of Baby Puno, Renee Salvador and Lita Salvador.

Online Charity Auction will take place in July-August. The committee to run this Charity Auction is composed of Lois Villanueva and Gie Obcena

Other Activities

Tour of the facilities of PGH has been postponed because of increase in the number of COVID cases. However, it was suggested that if PGH has filmed its various services and facilities through a video, obtain a copy as it will serve as a virtual tour for the FPGH in place of the face-to-face tour.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of FPGH in 2024, it was suggested to produce a coffee table book about the history, services, objectives and achievements of PGH. The editorial board for this project will be led by Heidi Mendoza, assisted by Lois Villanueva, Edna Floro and past presidents like Alice Katigbak, Baby Puno, Lita Salvador. It will focus on the 40 years of work of PGH and can include interviews of doctors, patients, and frontliners who have received support from FPGH.

The celebration of the 38th Year Anniversary of FPGH in October will follow more or less how last year’s celebration was conducted. It was suggested that the organization of this year’s celebration be assigned to the new members to engage them more actively in FPGH activities.

The Christmas Party for this year will be held face-to-face depending on the Covid situation

The yearly summer outing for this year will be held on June 14 at Lita Salvador’s beach resort called Sabangan Beach Resort located in Laiya, Batangas. An amount of 750 pesos will be charged for the lunch and merienda.

March 2022-First Monthly Meeting in 2022 Draws Out Plans for Income-Generating, Membership, and Support to PGH for 2022

1. The Board of Trustees and the Organization Officers had been constituted, as shown below.

Board of Trustees

1. Fe Ferriols

2. Lita Salvador

3. Renee Francisco

4. Lara Chico

5. Yvette Dizon Reyes

6. Edna Floro

7. Lina Gison

Organization Officers

1 President – Fe Ferriols

2 Vice President – Lita Salvador

3 Corporate Secretary- Mar Santiago

4 Treasurer- Lina Gison

5 VP for Operations- Baby Puno

6 VP for Membership- Cora de Leon

7 VP for Finance- Priscila Pacheco

8 VP for Social Media Dissemination- Lois Villanueva

9 VP for Fund-Raising – Vacant

2. Income Generation – the meeting discussed and proposed the following activities to raise funds for the current year

o Golf Tournament – scheduled sometime in November and led by Baby Puno, Lita Salvador and Renee Francisco

o Auction- scheduled in August to be led by Lois Villanueva

o Online Symposium and Exhibition- scheduled towards the end of the year to be led by Fe Ferriols

o Online Bingo – to be led by Renee Francisco

To explain further to the meeting participants how the Virtual Exhibition and Symposium proposed by President Pipat will be conducted, the following steps were described to run this Exhibit ·

a. The exhibit will be like a marketplace where companies, businesses, stores, foundations, government and non-governmental organizations will buy booths to sell and promote their products and services. They could be organized into galleries by themes like those selling medical solutions, wellness services, food, fashion, manufacturing, IT products, etc. The prices of booths will depend on their level, e.g., gold, silver, bronze, platinum. 

b. Apart from the marketplace, the Virtual Exhibit can have another section that will show the sponsors and patrons who are not selling any products but who donated money to this event 

c. Another hall could be a schedule of webinars, seminars or symposiums organized by FPGH or other companies which participate in the Marketplace. For example, FPGH can invite medical doctors from PGH to talk about wellness, COVID treatments, cardiovascular diseases, etc. 

d. The Exhibit can also form collaboration with other like-minded partners which will help run the marketplace and webinars for which FPGH can share whatever income is generated.

e. The Exhibit can be titled “Moving Forward After the Pandemic” which can be an ongoing marketplace for at least one year. The geographical coverage is not only the Philippines but worldwide where international partners are based. In short, the Marketplace products and services will be exposed to the world. 

f. The role of FPGH is to recruit exhibitors from all kinds of products and services. They will populate the Marketplace by selling booths as well as invite sponsors and donors.

To expound more on this project, President Pipat will send a link to an example of this Virtual Exhibit through the FPGH Viber Group. She will also write the complete proposal to be used for inviting or recruiting exhibitors and sponsors.

3. Priority Support Required by PGH

o To further assess the needs and priorities of PGH, it was proposed to meet with Director Gap Legaspi to personally explore with him their most urgent and priority needs which the FPGH can support. Grace was tasked to schedule this meeting with Dr. Legaspi as soon as possible.

o In the meantime, the Neo-natal ICU of PGH has submitted a request for six pieces each of baby weighing scale, RAM Cannula, exhaust wall fans, and orbit fans which are estimated to total to 40,000 pesos. It was moved and seconded for FPGH to fund the procurement of these requests.

4. Membership Issues

o Campaign for membership – since it was revealed that only around 35 members renewed their membership and paid their fees, President Pipat suggested to review and amend the cap of 50 members imposed on the recruitment policy. The members agreed to remove the quota or limit of membership to 50 members only.

o Consider regional/provincial branch by recruiting members from the provinces who can serve as conduit between the PGH services and the indigent patients in these provinces.

o Partnership/collaboration with other like-minded organizations – it was proposed to invite other organizations to partner with FPGH in supporting and serving a common cause.

o Members were encouraged to open recruitment to male members

o To incentivize recruitment of new members, the procedure of inviting members should be accompanied by benefits they can derive from joining. For example, one benefit is being included in the Covid vaccination programme. Another benefit is being referred to the right competent doctors and health services at PGH.

January 2022 Annual General Membership Meeting

The 2022 FPGH Annual Membership Meeting held last January 20, 2022 rounded off the achievements of the year that was by the immediate past President Priscila Pacheco as well as held the election of the new Board of Trustees followed by the appointment of a new set of officers. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic, 2021 marked a year of significant achievements by the Friends of PGH under the helm of Past President Priscila Pacheco and its officers and members. Among its important achievements, it finalized the reportorial requirements mandated by the SEC to make the organization official and legal. Four committees were set up to assist FPGH in operationalizing its mandate, policies and activities. These included Committees of Operations, Fund-raising, Social Media Dissemination and Membership. To kick start the fund-raising activities, letters of fund solicitation were sent out to families and friends of members which successfully raised an amount that was used to donate two surgical equipment to the burned Operating Room of the PGH. The rest of the donation was reserved to support the Covid treatment program of PGH. The year 2021 also marked the 37th Foundation Year of the FPGH, celebrated with a virtual mass, gift giving event that saw the distribution of 200 gift bags to three wards, blessing of the new FPGH office and induction of 11 new members. To continue its fund-raising activities, FPGH held an online charity auction which auctioned off 32 items that raised more than 200,000 pesos. The year was capped off by a virtual Christmas Party that included interactive games, competitions for the best Christmas headdress and festive attire, saxophone number by Director Gap Legaspi, piano and song numbers, all fueled by a merienda of high tea items delivered to the participants. The Annual Membership Meeting also presented the year-end financial report that shows the good financial standing of the organization as well as ratified the Board Resolutions for 2021.

To launch 2022 with a new set of trustees and officers, the Annual Membership Meeting elected seven new Trustees to the Board. They include: 1) Fe Ferriols 2) Marilyn Lim 3) Lita Salvador 4) Renee Francisco 5) Lara Chico 6) Yvette Dizon Reyes, and 7) Azucena Yao. They were inducted by the immediate past president Priscila. After the Annual Meeting, the Board of Trustees convened to elect the new set of officers, as presented here. 1) President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees- Maria Fe Ferriols 2) Vice President- Lita Salvador 3) Corporate Secretary- Marilyn Lim 4) Treasurer- Lina Gison 5) VP for Operations – Baby Puno 6) VP for Membership- Cora de Leon 7) VP for Finance- Priscila Pacheco 8) VP for Social Media Dissemination – Lois Villanueva 9) VP for Fund-raising – still to be filled Congratulations to the New Board of Trustees and Executive Officer