ICM: News - Getting desperate
Getting desperate
FROM Manila Standard Today By Emil Jurado
October 16, 2008
"Without fanfare for the past decade and a half, a non-profit humanitarian organization has been helping and empowering countless poor Pinoy families get a crack at a better life through outreach programs, medical missions, residential care, food distribution and livelihood programs.
This is the International Care Ministries, a Hong Kong-based organization composed of business people and just plain well-meaning folks bound by a desire to help the impoverished in our country. Moved by the right of people subsisting in sub-human conditions here, the volunteer-type organization has expanded in number and in the scope of assistance it gives to poverty-stricken areas.
Working almost incognito for the last 15 years, ICM’s achievements are hard to match. Among others, the group is in medical clinics, treatment of over three million patients and the distribution of medicine. It is also in a feeding program in slum areas.
Soon, ICM will enter into a partnership with the Center for Community Transformation, also a non-profit organization providing financial assistance to indigents since 1992. But, recent developments may soon slow down ICM’s activities. Understandably so because of the worldwide global financial crisis which is being felt here.
In this regard, it will be of great help if part of the budgets for corporate social responsibility of companies can be allocated to help ICM. Information about the organization is available at www.caremin.com.
who are we?
International Care Ministries is called to release the poorest of the poor in the Philippines from spiritual, emotional and physical bondage.
