Belgian Philanthropist Distributes Wheelchairs To Immobile Persons
By Quirico M.Gorpido, Jr.
Macrohon, Southern Leyte -A Belgian national who was married to Filipina lass of brgy. Molopolo here in this municipality has distributed forty wheelchairs to persons with disabilities.
The donation of 40 units of used wheelchairs was coursed thru the Municipal Social Welfare Department office headed by Brenda Decenteceo Lagunda.
During the awarding ceremony of the aforesaid wheelchairs held at the gymnasium led by the husband-and-wife donors and Lagunda, Mayor Fe Gaviola-Edillo expressed her profuse thankfulness to Patrick Hajhedoreen and his wife Sandra Peroso-Hajhedoreen for t heir altruistic and humanitarian concerns.
Edillo told the audience composed of 40 recipients and their parents and close kin that although Patrick is a Belgian national “his heart is a Macrohanon” ”, she said
She stressed that as a form of transparency, they did not take funds from the municipal coffer but used the proceeds of the tickets sales from various activities during the previous fiestas handled by the Fiesta Executive Committee.
The incumbent Mayor also disclosed that Hajhedoreen himself was the one who dismantled all the given wheelchairs and put it on the boxes during shipment. He was also the one who assembled it upon arrival in Macrohon.
She implied that although the total of 100 used wheelchairs were shipped to Cebu from Belgium cost much to the donors, their financial pinch was lessen.
“Patrick has requested us to provide for the transporting expenses from Cebu to Macrohon via freight handling committee amounting to P20, 000.00 for the services. The payment could serve as a souvenir project from the FEC, she added.
Pedroso for her part, speaking in behalf of her husband divulged that although they have collected wheelchairs from different persons in Belgium , the work of gathering it was not that easy.
“Sometimes we have to drive along a highway where stopping is prohibited and we have to constrain a personal call by nature and drove fast just to reach the other end where we could attend to the nature’s call”, she intimated.
There was also an instance, she said, when the place where they have resided in Belgium got flooded, but they have to go on with their activity of collecting some wheelchairs from friends and some concerned individuals.
The Belgian philanthropist who presently resided in brgy. Buscayan, Macrohon with his wife confided that he has also distributed 40 wheelchairs in Padre Burgos for the same purpose. While the remaining 10 units were given individually according to request from families who have disabled and immobile family members.
Furthermore, the second hand wheelchairs still looked functionally good. It could serve the beneficiaries for quite some years if properly maintained.
MSWD officer Lagunda enjoined the recipients to take care of their kins’ mobility support by applying some oil from time to time on its wheels and other parts to sustain its functionality.
She also reminded them, who came from different Macrohon barangays, to turn over their wheelchairs at a time when they would no longer be using it. This could be necessary, she said, so that those who are indigent families who need wheelchairs for their members could be provided by her office.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
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