By PGH volunteers - Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran
Letters from patients or the families are food for our hearts and souls. They humble us and make us realize how privileged and lucky we are compared to others. The sample letter published here, where the letter writer said that groups like ours are heaven-sent to remind people that out there in the cold, cruel world, there are people who care, is typical of most of the letters we receive weekly from patients who get well due to the medicines or surgical supplies we gave them.
Volunteering weekly at PGH not only allows us to help others but in many ways, it also helps us grow and become more aware of our fellow beings. One of our volunteers, for example, has been depressed for sometime due to family problems. We invited her to go with us in our volunteer work so she can get away from the house and from her problems even for a short while. That volunteer became a regular one and she is most thankful for the eye-opening experience, which showed her that no matter how burden-laden she is, she is still among the more fortunate ones.
Social consciousness is not something one learns from textbooks, it is something we get from life experiences and in being able to share in the plight of our less fortunate fellows, who, due to poverty may lost their lives just because they cannot afford to pay for two units of blood needed for the surgery or the antibiotics needed to fight infection or the heart medicines that can prolong their lives.
We are most grateful to our late donor, Sy Lin Kiat, to his family, to our anonymous donor, and to many other kind-hearted souls who continue to support our weekly heart-offerings to PGH patients.
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