Touching people through charity and shaping the future with hope—an undertaking that the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) has been carrying out especially in this trying time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 Through the activation of its Humanitarian Disaster Preparedness Response (HDPR) team, the foundation has helped communities across the city by distributing food, health kits, hygiene products, masks and non-contact digital infrared thermometer guns to partner organizations including Gasa sa Gugma, Ramon Durano Foundation Home for the Aged, Missionaries of the Poor (Little Lambs Center and Elderly Home), Missionaries of Charity, Albert Schweitzer Familienwork Foundation Philippines Inc, SOS Children’s Village, Agak Foundation, Abtanan sa Kaluoy, Sto. Niño Foundation and Little Bamboo Foundation.

  These efforts have reached over 1,285 children and elderly beneficiaries. In collaboration with World Vision, RAFI has also provided hygiene kits to 600 families. Social distancing and wearing of masks were strictly observed during the distribution of these relief goods.

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To help lower the risk of our medical professionals and health workers handling COVID-19 patients, RAFI has provided personal protective equipment (PPE) sets and face shields, masks, alcohol and surgical gloves to hospitals including Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Glory Reborn Organization, Cebu City Medical Center, Talisay District Hospital, Sacred Heart Hospital, Eversley Child Sanitarium, Cardinal Rosales Memorial Hospital, Sugod Public Hospital and Cebu City Emergency Medical Services. In partnership with All-Terrain Medical Relief Organization (AMRO), RAFI has provided 2,000 PPE sets to over 97 hospitals in Visayas and Mindanao as of March 31, 2020.

“Knowing that colleagues in and out of the country are sick or dead because of COVID-19, we just had to do something rather than hide away from it. This (intervention) should have affected our local curve as we protected the care givers early on in the said curve.” said Dr. Wyben Briones, founder of AMRO.

 RAFI will also be distributing 53,000 packs of relief goods to various local government units (LGUs) in the province starting next week.

 To amplify these efforts and reach additional communities, RAFI has allotted a budget of ₱58M for its HDPR initiatives. Kind individuals and organizations who wish to join the fight against COIVD-19 may email covid19donationhub@rafi.org or visit www.rafi.org.ph or RAFI’s Facebook page for more details.

TOUCHING PEOPLE, SHAPING THE FUTURE. RAFI is a non-government non-profit organization, since 1966, whose mission is to elevate lives by championing best practices in community development in the Philippines.