PSHF

The Christmas season is a special time of year, and for our family having the opportunity to be together again made it especially so. Ruth and I are currently American ex-pats living and working in Tokyo, Japan, with our high school daughter Liz. Our three sons (in their 20’s) are living in the US. As we started our vacation planning we were looking for some place where we could enjoy time together as a family, some place warm and accessible to swimming, and also some...

Fritzy Cañete was only nine when she passed away on the morning of October 30 last year, after losing a ten-month battle with cancer. She had acute Myolegenous Leukaemia (AML), a malignant disease of the bone marrow. We first met her in June 2010 when her mother Maribel came to us for help. We responded by funding all the costs of Fritzy’s blood transfusions and prescriptions, but her illness was too severe, and she died four months later.

Fritzy spent the last ...

‘The Philippines? Why?’

I visited the Philippines in March and stayed there for 14 days. When asked why I wanted to visit the Philippines, I didn’t know exactly what to say, except that I wanted to explore. Although even now, I’m still not sure what brought me to the Philippines, but what I do know is that all the experiences I had there made me ...

Glitter Moreño, the Bacolod office co-ordinator, was invited to speak at the Lighthouse Learning Center's 14th Commencement Exercises last March 27, 2010. She shared her thoughts on the kind of education which could bring about a real and lasting solution.

27th March 2010

Education the Solution

" Firstly, I want to commend you parents for coming here today and looking all so wonderful to show your love for your chil...

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The PSHF is not only active in providing loan assistance but also in giving grants. These are mostly for unaffordable medical treatment and sometimes for housing, business revival, and organic farming training.

I made this video two years ago and I hope that it can REACH out to you profoundly, in whatever w...

A red plastic flower accompanied Aiza’s crudely made casket as it was lowered to a newly dug pit in the little space between the tombs at the public cemetery in Pontevedra, a an hour and a half bus ride from Bacolod. The plywood material was donated by the Miranda barangay office while the rectangular piece of glass was bought by Aiza’s family members. A carpenter neighbour volunteered to make the coffin for a cheap bottle of rum.

Sixteen days into the new year 2009, I found myself walking through the dirt roads of the hidden small communities of Cauayan. If it weren’t for the PSHF, I would most likely never find myself in such places.

I joined the PSHF field trip and was enthusiastically walking with Richard Foster, Bernie and Glitter as we went from house to house checking on the people and how they have progressed in their lives since the...

Why does PSHF need to know some people, start helping, start emotionally investing, and lose them at the end?

*Michael, a twelve-year old dengue patient was a stranger to me until three hours ago, when Lucelle and I came to the hospital.

Maybe it was just an ordinary sight to hospital people, but it was a whole new experience to me. ICU. At the farthest bed from the door was Nilda, Michael's mother, all al...

In July of 2007, I visited the PSHF in their offices in Bacolod, Santa Catalina, Bohol and Cebu. I was connected with the organization through its founder Richard Foster as I attend Tokyo Union Church with him in Japan. I visited some of the projects that the organization supports, conducted some interviews and wrote some proposals. In a ten-day period I experienced so much poverty firsthand but left feeling blessed by what God had shown m...