• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
About 300 children in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City were the latest recipients of the charitable acts of Ma. Teresa Charity Foundation Inc. on March 15.
Its founder, Maria Teresa Taganile, distributed slippers and toys, and treated them to lunch and entertainment with a Jollibee mascot.
Taganile, the sister general of the Order of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno, said the foundation also engages in helping churches and orphanages, provides scholarships to deserving students, and conducts medical missions.
On Feb. 8, the foundation, in tandem with volunteer doctors and nurses, conducted a medical mission and gift-giving for more than 200 beneficiaries at St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental.
The Ma. Teresa Charity Foundation Inc. also assisted in the repair and maintenance of the St. Ezekiel Moreno Reliquarium at the monastery in Barangay Tangub, which is now open to the public.
Taganile said she wants to continue giving back, especially to the poorest of the poor, after doing charity works for more than three decades now.
With the assistance of Angkop (Answering Cry of the Poor)-Canada, an international organization, Taganile said they are helping the parents of scholars through livelihood assistance.
Taganile, who represented her foundation, was presented with an Episcopal Award by the Diocese of Kabankalan in December last year. | GB
