Recycling and helping the sick at OLWV

The Divine Mercy Filipino Catholic Community in Tel-Aviv, within Our Lady Woman of Valor Pastoral Center, has initiated several fund raising projects to support the programs of the Social Action Ministry. Fr. Michael Grospe, the Priest-in-Charge announced to the community the importance of responding to the various needs of the Filipino migrants who are sick and who need financial assistance for chemotherapy, medicine or food since they could not be employed while undergoing treatment.

One of the fund raising projects, popular and supported by the parishioners, is the collection of selected plastic containers: bottles, cans with agorot value. Every time the parishioners come to mass they bring with them these items which are classified and delivered to the junk shop for sale. This fund raising project started last "Yom Kippur 2015" and in two months the Social Action Ministry of the DMFCC, headed by Sr. Letrma Javing SPC, has been able to raise a total amount of 2444 NIS. This particular project is also in line with the "Laudato Si" encyclical of Pope Francis, caring for the environment through recycling recyclable materials.

The other fund raising projects include the "Trip for a Cause" and the monthly second collection for the sick. The Social Action ministry has given assistance to Thea Jane, a Filipina child aged three years old with eye cancer undergoing treatment here in Israel, Maricel and Gaudentia, both undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and Nimfa, Albert and Rowena who passed away after undergoing treatment.