Grace to be Born is a Pasig-based shelter for abandoned babies and pregnant mothers. Last November, Isang Bata donated medicines and vitamins for the children and pregnant moms.
The shelter currently needs more support. The babies need Bonna infant formula, and the moms and shelter staff need rice. Donations in kind or cash will be accepted.
If you have extra, please please send them to these babies and mommies in need. Get in touch with me through this site, email (imelda.aznar@yahoo.com), or mobile phone (09062457910). Thank you.
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Coming from the Shelter, a journal excerpt
written on november 29, 2009 after my visit to grace to be born shelter, home for abandoned babies and mothers
... so now that my heart and hand brim with desire to offer a poem for A, the 3month old baby i just met at the shelter 2 hours ago, i couldnt find the words. i remember clearly how soft his skin was and how small the fingers, his eyes were too expressive for his age and i had this feeling that at 3months he knew that he was an orphan, and that his mother was not coming back for him. i held his hands and touched his toes for many minutes. i tried to leave twice and twice he "called" for me. on my third attempt to go, i just left him with a whispered "have a good life". because how does one write about things like this? a kind of pain so different from all the other pain i have in my life now, yet definitely not less significant. but a pain i would have loved to honor with a decent poem, had i the wisdom to find the right words...
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