Dear family, classmates, acquaintances, business contacts, blog readers, and friends,
It’s April. My birth month. My birthday is April 28, 1982. I’m turning 29. And you guys have about 27 days to think about it and buy me a present.
I’ve had a really great year on earth and I’d like to give back. If you want to make me really, really, really happy, you can help me out with my birthday celebration that I will be having with the kids of the Down Syndrome Foundation.
The Down Syndrome Foundation is one of the partners of the JCI Davaoeña Daba Daba. You may contribute your time, food, or money to the kids during my celebration with them sometime early May. I hope that you can join and help out in this thanksgiving celebration. Any form of help or donation for the celebration or for the Down Syndrome Foundation will be very much appreciated.
Or you can do one of these things:
- Donate blood to the Philippine Red Cross. It can save lives as blood donations saved mine.
- Donate to the Help Japan Project. It’s a project led by my high school classmates.
- Donate books for the JCI Davaoeña Daba Daba Book Donation Drive to Playnet, for the benefit underprivileged pre-schoolers. A project in cooperation with Playnet and Councilor Louie John Bonguyan. Deadline for this is on April 14, 2011.
- Donate pens, pencils, or any other school supplies to the Pens of Hope Foundation, a partner of the Davao Bloggers and Avatar Media.
- Donate to the Philippine Eagle Foundation.
Your love, your friendship, and your support during my tumultuous but meaningful 28 years mean a lot to me. But I hope we can extend beyond our relationships and share our generosity to those who need it more.
If you want to make a donation for the party with the kids of the Down Syndrome Foundation, give books for the Book Donation Drive, or give school supplies for the Pens of Hope Foundation, please send me a message at riajose at gmail dot com to coordinate the pick up or turn over of your donation.
Thank you very much! 🙂
I’ll give paypal funds na lang for Pens of Hope 🙂 Nice Bday Wishlist ate Ria. See you this May!
Mica, thank you very much! You can give it during the Davao Food Appreciation Tour din, if you want. 🙂
advance happy birthday ri ^.^ we’ll help all we can 🙂
Advance happy birthday Ria! Those are very nice gift ideas… I’m thinking of the school supplies… Will contact you about it…
will donate school supplies for Pens of Hope! Advance Happy Birthday diyosa!
Advance happy birthday Ria….may you have more to come! It’s wonderful of you to have compassion for the needy. If you bless others, you will be blessed too….and I hope and pray that these projects will turn out great and successful…and of course, we will help to make this reality.
Leah, April, and Olan, thank you very much! 🙂 Hope you can join us during the party.
Bingkaycoy, thank you very much! 🙂
Hi Ri. Advance happy birthday. Count me in. I’ll see you na lang for the details.
Thanks Kuya Laurence! 🙂