Pinoy Pilgrim Global Foundation Inc (PPGFI) visited Tahanang Walang Hagdanan (TWH) in Cainta, Rizal last November 19, 2009 to make a cash donation to help in their fund-raising campaign to rehabilitate their workshops for disabled workers that were destroyed from typhoon “Ondoy” disaster last September 26, 2009.

TWH is a sustainable enterprise providing employment for persons with disabilities and an ideal venue for holistic development of their physical, mental, economic, social and spiritual well-being.

TWH was not spared from the lashes of typhoon Ondoy and about 300 disabled persons fought for their lives when flash floods hit the center and no rescue was available to evacuate people mostly on wheelchairs. The water reached up to their necks and they all have to help each other reached the nearby building and crawled to the second floor to save themselves and the weaker ones. Badly hit were the workshop where 350 people with their families depend for their livelihood. The machines, finished products, work in process, raw materials and the dormitories of the residents were soaked in water and mud for hours and millions of pesos of products and raw materials were damaged.

The funds will be used to help purchase raw materials and supplies so that we can start operation, reproduce the damaged finished goods and sell them in time for the Christmas season.

In Photo: (Top) Intet Victoriano, Jr, Project Consultant of PPGFI, Carlo F. de Leon, Executive Director of PPGFI, Sr. Valeriana Baerts, ICM, Founder & Chairmain of the Boards of TWH.  (Bottom) TWH  representatives, Joy Garcia, Chief Operating Officer, Lita Evangelista, Director – Workshop Operations, and Gerald Macabenguil, Bookkeeper