Global Coalition for Humanitarian Efforts-Philippines

OUR MISSION:

To forge global strategic alliances, partnerships, and collaboration to facilitate, coordinate and optimize humanitarian efforts to the Philippines in self-empowering, self-sustaining, enduring ways.
OUR GOALS:

1. To create a global network of strategic partnerships and alliances for humanitarian efforts for the Philippines to enable collaboration, leveraging, facilitation and optimization of humanitarian efforts and resources.

2. To promote the "Adopt a Community" model by linking, enabling, and facilitating partnerships with proven established local grassroots humanitarian organizations with multifaceted, multidisciplinary, holistic, transformational efforts.

3. To promote and to help facilitate the streamlining, leveraging, and coordination of Medical and Surgical missions to the Philippines.

4. To catalyze and help facilitate the development and dissemination of a Community and National Development Master Plan Matrix for the Philippines highlighting priority areas of greatest need.

5. To encourage and inspire each and every individual that they have the ability and the power to "make a difference" in this world...





IF NOT US, WHO ??
IF NOT NOW, WHEN ???


http://www.globalcoal-phil.org/index-2.html


Thus, while we are promoting a "needs-based" and "needs-driven" humanitarian approach whenever possible on one hand, rather than attempting to discourage understandable regional and hometown loyalties of many donors as you aptly discuss, we in fact promote harnessing this, while offering donors strategic options to best direct their help based on their hometowns' areas of greatest need as determined by our local grassroots NGO partners, the DOH, etc. An example is how we have highlighted Bulacan as our pilot "Adopt a Community" model, where Ka Mody and her group at Bulacan Healthwatch have listed their priority needs in various sectors in the section "How Can you Help Us?"

http://www.globalcoal-phil.org/BulacanPilotCommunity.htm

Nonetheless, we also recognize and acknowledge that individual people and groups will always continue to have their have own interests, areas of expertise, passions, and advocacies which we should neither attempt to nor can we change, but instead should continue to encourage, support and harness by connecting like-minded individuals with similar passions and advocacies so they can collaborate and optimize their efforts, as we offer them whatever help we can. In fact, because of this unwavering conviction, I realize that over these past two years, I have often been perceived by many as being too unfocused, "Kalat", "Sabog", or "Wishy-washy" in regards to our Global Coalition's mission, goals, and direction, but it never bothered me because I knew I was remaining consistent with the vision of what a Global Coalition for Humanitarian Efforts-Philippines should be,,,

Another perfect illustration is that per USAID's suggestion, our Coalition had concurred during our first meeting in December 2008 in Makati to try to focus on the ubiquitous problem of Maternal-Child Health as our initial and pilot healthcare initiative. While everyone concurs that to have success, there must be a "focus" and while being in full support of this, I continued to maintain and uphold the above guiding principle and to support our Surgical Missions groups whose interest, expertise, passion, and advocacy will always be towards the needed surgical missions for indigent patients, which I felt the Global Coalition cannot put aside while trying to focus on the area of Maternal-Child Health... hence we have arrived at our current platform and discussions at hand with inter-agency and NGO collaboration towards the pursuit of needed facilitation and coordination of surgical missions and tax exemption of donated medical equipment...

That is really what our Global Coalition is all about...to enable and optimize everyones' ability to pursue their own passions and advocacies towards the ultimate common goal of helping our less fortunate brothers and sisters in the Philippines, to each his own way, his own pace, place, and time..

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Philippine Nurses all over the World


Although Dominador Rosacia, editor of the Philippine Nurses' Monitor (PNM) was introduced to our Global Coalition over one year ago by David Paraiso of the Healthcare Coalition Institute and been involved in our e-mail loop since, it was my oversight to have missed their inclusion among our growing list of network members, which has now been updated:

http://www.globalcoal-phil.org/friendsandallies.htm

http://www.philippinenursesmonitor.com/index.htm

It is needless to say that Filipino nurses are a major force in the Filipino diaspora, philanthropy, and in making surgical missions possible... so hopefully, Doming and the PNM will help provide the necessary bridge between the Filipino nurses groups and the Global Coalition...

Laughter...

"I live by this credo: Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough."
- Red Skelton

Lets be men for others...

I remember when i was still a student, our theology teacher kept reminding us to be men for others. It is only now that i realized that our life's purpose is for us to do good and be living witnesses.. it is never too late.. Lets be men for others...

Good Things will come..

There may be days when you get up in the morning and things aren't the way you had hoped they would be.

That's when you have to tell yourself that things will get better. There are times when people disappoint you and let you down.

But those are the times when you must remind yourself to trust your own judgments and opinions, to keep your life focused on believing in yourself.

There will be challenges to face and changes to make in your life, and it is up to you to accept them.
Constantly keep yourself headed in the right direction for you. It may not be easy at times, but in those times of struggle you will find a stronger sense of who you are.

So when the days come that are filled with frustration and unexpected responsibilities, remember to believe in yourself and all you want your life to be.

Because the challenges and changes will only help you to find the goals that you know are meant to come true for you.

Keep Believing in Yourself

Building Bridges

Once upon a time two brothers who lived on adjoining farms fell into conflict. It was the first serious rift in 40 years of farming side by side, sharing machinery, and trading labor and goods as needed without a hitch.

Then the long collaboration fell apart. It began with a small misunderstanding and it grew into a major difference, and finally it exploded into an exchange of bitter words followed by weeks of silence.

One morning there was a knock on John's door. He opened it to find a man with a carpenter's toolbox. "I'm looking for a few days work," he said.

"Perhaps you would have a few small jobs here and there. Could I help you?"

"Yes," said the older brother. "I do have a job for you. Look across the creek at that farm. That's my neighbor, in fact, it's my younger brother. Last week there was a meadow between us and he took his bulldozer to the river levee and now there is a creek between us. Well, he may have done this to spite me, but I'll go him one better. See that pile of lumber curing by the barn? I want you to build me a fence - an 8-foot fence - so I won't need to see his place anymore. Cool him down, anyhow."

The carpenter said, "I think I understand the situation. Show me the nails and the post-hole digger and I'll be able to do a job that pleases you."

The older brother had to go to town for supplies, so he helped the carpenter get the materials ready and then he was off for the day.

The carpenter worked hard all that day measuring, sawing, nailing.

About sunset when the farmer returned, the carpenter had just finished his job. The farmer's eyes opened wide, his jaw dropped.

There was no fence there at all. It was a bridge... a bridge stretching from one side of the creek to the other! A fine piece of work handrails and all - and the neighbor, his younger brother, was coming across, his hand outstretched.

"You are quite a fellow to build this bridge after all I've said and done."

The two brothers stood at each end of the bridge, and then they met in the middle, taking each other's hand. They turned to see the carpenter hoist his toolbox on his shoulder. "No, wait! Stay a few days. I've a lot of other projects for you," said the older brother.

"I'd love to stay on," the carpenter said, "but, I have many more bridges to build."

cherish..

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. ~ Leo Babauta