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..