Orphans International Worldwide - The Philippines

Marc Guerrero founding Chief Executive of OI Philippines urged Noynoy Aquino to take charge

2009-08-10T21:38:00.000-07:00

Marc Guerrero official communique to Noynoy Aquino:

9 August 2009

BENIGNO ‘NOYNOY’ S AQUINO III
25 Times Street, West Triangle
Quezon City, The Philippines

Dear Senator Noynoy Aquino:

GREETINGS of renewed hope for the Filipinos and for The Philippines after we celebrated the passing of Our Eternal Flame that reawakened the unfinished First EDSA in our hearts!

On the 6th of March 2009, five months and three days today, I wrote the Freedom President of The Philippines who happened to be your mother to serve as honorary chairperson of Orphans International Worldwide-The Philippines (OIP)… Nurturing free and responsible citizens of the world.

Orphans International Philippines was mandated by Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW.org) in New York founded by Jim Luce (TIME Henry Luce’s descendant) with Monaco Prince Albert as OIWW chief global advisor, to get organized and set up an orphans’ campus in a family estate in Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, donated by a Filipino-American in the apple city, Eugene ‘Rick’ Respicio.

Orphans International in America cares for the orphaned children of the world in Asia and Africa.

Its chief global advisor, Prince Albert, is the son of the late Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly of Monaco. Like you, he was orphaned by two distinguished parents. Unlike Prince Albert, perhaps, your parents had given much of their lives for their countrymen, so that we may all live now, and so that the next generation may live happier, healthier than we do.

Orphans Philippines is taking many steps further from, and yet, in synergy with, the OI vision of Mr Luce in 1999, by redefining the Filipino’s role in the care for orphans: Filipinos worldwide will not just “raise global citizens.” We will also nurture free, responsible and responsive citizens of the world.

We told Mr Luce when he invited my organization to work with his organization more than a couple of years ago, OI Philippines the emerging cultural NGO will not just nurture the orphaned children and youth. We will also care for the unempowered women, the elderly or senior citizens, the indigenous communities, the people who are differently-abled (PWDs), and others.

This resolve of the OIP is founded on the ideal that every one of us is an orphan. We have been orphaned, one time or another in the past, by our loved ones. You and I. He, she and them.

That is why we wanted to share with you the joys of seeing that vision of the OIP through.

OIP Philippines will be one with OI Worldwide in helping the worldspeoples in seeing no more orphanages and no more orphans from 2020.

And that is why we wanted to share with you the blessings of fulfilling that mission of OIP with OIWW.

As honorary chairman of the Orphans International Philippines, representing the Freedom President of The Philippines, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, we can do so much. We can do much more than we resolved or professed to do for the orphaned peoples of the world.

I am just another journalist. I have nothing much of my own to give to others. But I think I can do so much for the uplift of other people by and through the power of the pen, the influence of the written word, the advocates in the press and the media for social entrepreneurship, and the transformative technologies for common good.

Orphans International Worldwide-The Philippines (OIP) needs your help. Be our honorary chair.

As such honorary chair of OIP, you need not do anything more than a few bite-size acts of compassion and creativity, that are inherent in the Filipino.

You need not shell out your own personal money.

You need not give away your own personal property.

You need not attend all the functions of the organization. You will only attend the most important meetings of the organization once or twice a year, unless you chose to be present at our quarterly meetings.

You need not grace all our events, unless you chose otherwise.

You just BE. Be One of us. Be One with us. Be the OIP chair.

Looking back, I found it not ironic nor coincidental that we met a few months ago at a birthday party in Manila of a Senate reporter who happened to be one of our writers in a broadsheet and a tabloid that we were associated in, yesteryears.

We talked about Ninoy, the Chino Roces Manila Times, Sison ice drop, the repressed press during Marcos, 1983, and 1986. I was as if having a good time with Ninoy while guzzling your coke, gusting your Marlboro and downing the “healthy” pulutan broken only by continuous jokes and prolonged laughter, punctuated only by the perennial question: “When are you settling down?,” responded to with the perennial evasiveness.

I confided in you the son that we were inviting thy mother. Some 500 people of various nationalities also thought the same way as I did (and I still do) regarding your mother chairing OIP. The idea of your mom chairing the OIP was germinating more than three years ago. It was all over the internet. I was clueless; history has been unfolding since that chance meeting in Manila during a Senate reporter’s natal day party night.

You can simply BE, Noynoy.

THANK YOU, good health, God bless, as we remain all yours…

Faithfully,
{Original signed}
EMMANUEL MARIO B SANTOS
aka Marc Guerrero
Founding Executive Director of OIP
56 South Maya Rd, Philamhomes
Quezon City, The

Philippines

http://younoodle.com/startups/orphans_international_worldwide_the_philippines_oi_philippines_or_oip

http://globalhealth.change.org/actions/view/noynoy_aquino_after_cory_aquino_for_oi_philippines_chair

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcp2gj89_37mcdqbdn

Full text of OI Philippines letter to Corazon Cojuangco Aquino inviting her to serve as Honorary Chair of OIP

2009-03-22T09:50:00.000-07:00

6 March 2009

Her Excellency,
Madame CORAZON COJUANGCO AQUINO
Freedom President of The Philippines
Times Street, West Triangle
Quezon City, Metrom Manila

SUBJECT: Honorary Chairmanship of the Philippine chapter of Orphans International America (OIA) that will be the counterpart of His Excellency, Prince Albert of Monaco, Chief Advisor of Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW), in New York

Dear Mrs Aquino:

GREETINGS of good health, prosperity and peace!

On behalf of our global partners at Orphans International in the United States led by OI founding CEO Jim Luce, a descendant of TIME Magazine’s Henry Luce, who had mandated the undersigned the organization of OI Philippines to lead build up the first OI Orphans Campus from a family estate in Ilocos Norte donated by the Filipino-American in New York, Eugene ‘Rick’ Respicio of Meryll Lynch, we are honored and privileged to invite you to serve and act as Honorary Chairperson of Orphans International Worldwide-The Philippines (OI Philippines, OIP), beginning this year and for as long as you wished.

As OI Philippines Chair, you shall be the Philippine and Asian counterpart of His Excellency, Prince Albert of Monaco, son of the late Prince Rainier and Princess Grace Kelly, who serve as chief advisor to OIWW for its global concerns.

The wisdom that you can share with OI Philippines as the statesman who is a woman and a fighting Filipina of great substance, form and inspiration is enough for us to cherish for as long as we live. It will be highly valued and appreciated.

You may access these links to three portals for basic information as to what we do
http://www.change.org/profiles/gmarcausa
http://www.change.org/oip
http://www.change.org/theinstitute .

We, led by OIP President, Dr Hernando B Delizo, OIP Vice President, Dr Juan Antonio Perez III, and yours truly a humble journalist of advocacies for common good, shall be happy to present to you our credentials at your most convenient time and place so that you may know the heart and soul behind the names, the persons, the ideas and the ideals of OI Philippines.

We had verbally communicated this formal invitation to your doting son, Senator Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III, when we chanced upon him recently in Manila. We are just nearby (Philamhomes), a stone’s throw away from your abode.

We look forward to our meeting of the minds, hearts and spirits soon.

THANK YOU for your time, good health, God bless and Mabuhay po kayo at Pagpalain ng Lumikha!

Respectfully,
EMMANUEL MARIO B SANTOS
aka MARC GUERRERO
Founding Executive Director
OIP and theINSTITUTE

OI Philippines Founder invites Freedom President Cory Aquino to serve as Honorary Chair of OIP, counterpart to Prince Albert of Monaco at OI Worldwide

2009-03-17T10:06:00.000-07:00

OI Philippines founder Marc Guerrero the advocacy journalist announced, initial moves were initiated to formally invite "Freedom President" of The Philippines, Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, to serve and act as first Honorary Chair of Orphans International Worldwide - The Philippines (OIP).

A TIME "Woman of the Year" (1987), Mrs Aquino who was a widow of martyred Filipino hero, Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr, successor to the late President Ferdinand Marcos had he not been assassinated at the tarmac one high noon in 1983 at the full view of the world press, was the inspiration behind the world's First Peaceful People-Power Revolution at EDSA in 1986. The apolitical plain housewife who can speak fluent French ended, in three years of peaceful mass action, the 20-year strongman rule of Marcos. Some 26 years later today, however, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pardoned all the accused in the Ninoy slay, sustaining the Marcos official line that a certain Rolando Galman had gunned down Ninoy that fateful day of the 21st of August 1983. Just like in the Kennedy assassination, no mastermind was punished for the high crime of killing a (would-be) President.

In an official letter of invitation by OIP dated 6 March 2009, Marc Guerrero, in his capacity as founding Executive Director of OIP and concurrently of theINSTITUTE of Health & Wellness PHILIPPINES Foundation Inc under which OIP is a partner, enjoined Mrs Aquino, that as OI Philippines Chair, "you shall be the Philippine and Asian counterpart of His Excellency, Prince Albert of Monaco, son of the late Prince Rainier and Princess Grace Kelly, who serve as chief advisor to Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) for its global concerns."

TIME cover photo of 1987 courtesy of Wikipedia.

Full text and screenshot of the two-page letter of OIP to Mrs Cory Aquino, in the next blog entry.

Welcome to OIP, Mabuhay!

2009-03-17T09:05:00.000-07:00

This becomes the first official weblog of Orphans International Worldwide - The Philippines (OI Philippines, OIP) from Manila by the founder, himself, Emmanuel Mario Santos aka Marc Guerrero, the journalist.

http://www.change.org/oip

OI Philippines is an independent program NGO (and a project nation) fully accredited, according to OI Worldwide founder Jim Luce in New York, in a communique to Change.org in Washington DC, by Orphans International America (OIA), a US's 501(c)(3) nonprofit with EIN 43-1971411.

http://www.oiww.org

OIP as accredited by OIWW is fully supported as its first global partners in Manila by theINSTITUTE of Health & Wellness PHILIPPINES Foundation Inc.

http://theinstitute.tel