A simple sharing project launched by the Laban Leni Negros Occ (LLNO) volunteer group, which envisioned the provision of a 2-kg bag of rice each to economically-deprived families during the Christmas season, has grown to become a testament of goodness from people all over the world.
The volunteer group said that, merely two days after the launch of their Star of Hope project, for which they will hang a simple star on a Christmas tree at the LLNO headquarters for every family sponsored, they have almost reached their target.
Harvey from San Mateo, Rizal (his last name unknown) who sent his contribution through G-cash, said in a message, “I would like to hang stars with a brighter future for Rose Ann and for my sons and the next generations as well.”
Rose Ann is the five-year-old girl who the volunteers met during one of their teach-ins in a marginalized community, and who has become their inspiration to embrace Leni Robredo’s “Radikal na Pagmamahal” through several ways of loving and sharing with the less fortunate.
LLNO volunteers also surprised afternoon promenaders in front of the Bacolod City Government Center with a flash mob dance Nov. 30. They then proceeded to the volunteer group’s headquarters where Rose Ann switched on the Christmas lights and pink parols.
Rose Ann was later joined by Bea Mirano, who donated the contents of her piggybank so she could hang the first Star of Hope on the tree.
The volunteers then hang close to a thousand stars, representing donations received, after which they decided to double their initial target of a thousand families to 2,000.
In a literal application of “good ushering in more good”, a Kakampink volunteer has offered Jesky, Rose Ann’s father a job and when he begins work on Friday, he will be moving one step out of poverty.
LLNO has listed a series of do-good activities in the coming months as their contribution to the Leni-Kiko tandem’s expression of pink as the “kulay ng pagmamahal”.
The LLNO volunteer headquarters is open 24/7, and is located at the Total Gas Station, CL Montelibano Street in Bacolod City. — PR
