----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Ana Simbulan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kikay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2006 11:28:32 PM Subject: Fundraiser thru Benjie delaPena - -Do you have $25 dollars to spare to help save a child's life?
Note: forwarded message attached. Dear Everyone First of all, our family and I would like to wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! Second, we would like to sincerely thank you all for your efforts to help us get through this. As an update, we seem to have found at least 3 potential matches from the US NMDP (national marrow database program). This is positive news and maybe one fourth the hurdle already. There is still one test that they requested us to do through Singapore NUH. We know that a BMT will still be a very complex procedure, with its own set of risks. But the sooner that a BMT is done, the higher chances of success. Also, because FA is a complex disease. Our hema-onc has been corresponding regularly with this very kind doctor from Cincinnati Children’s, the best in this area who has been studying FA for the last 20 years. And for all his credentials, this doctor has been very generous, dispensing medicine for Jack through email and guiding our hema-onco through. A BMT for an FA case has never been done in the Phils. This much we know. The most aggressive in the field is Asian Hospital. Also, the Phils. does not have a national marrow database for donors guess why, because the hospitals refrain from sharing databases. Too much politics, I guess. Unbelievable but true. Mommy (Juni’s mom) has not really been successful reaching the major philanthropists like Oprah and the Gateses. This is understandable because there are a lot of “scammers” around. Those who have given to Jack’s BMT fund are people who know us and can vouch for us. Friends say that the best way is to link to a foundation who can in turn write to the major philanthropists. Anyway, I am still trying my best to reach Bobbit Suntay, ex Xavier principal who is in Manila now and who put up Carewell Foundation since his wife died of CA. I planned to meet him at the Xavier Homecoming today but didn’t find the time (or energy). There are various fundraising efforts in the next two months (courtesy of Ateneo/ UP friends, officemates, and my mom’s UST med class)which hopefully should get us near to $350K. Of course, we are always counting on a miracle – which should be the best Christmas gift of all time. Benjie dela Pena, our good friend and ex-neighbor, who used to be with Ayala Corp, Manila Water and AYLC has initiated this. Benj is now based in DC with his wife Vickie and their year old son, Teo. If its not too much to ask, we hope you can forward to relatives and friends in the US. Thank you so much. May God bless you all! Sincerely, Babette & Juni Simbulan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com > ------- Original Message ------- > From: "Benjamin dela Pena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: > Sent: Fri 12/1/06 11:02 AM PHT > Subject: do you have $25 dollars to spare to help save a child's life? > Hi, > > Sorry for this mass mailing. We hope you can spare a few minutes of > your time for something important. > > HELP US SAVE JACK > > We're helping to raise money for Jack Simbulan, a five year old boy > who desperately needs a bone marrow transplant to fight Fanconi > Anemia. > > We figure we can find at least 200 friends willing to pledge $25 or > more to raise $5,000. (This is just a fraction of the $350,000 they > need to pay for the operation.) > > A PLEDGE OF JUST $25 (or more) > > We're using fundable.org to raise the $5K -and are asking for pledges. > You can pledge $25 or more via paypal or credit card. You will NOT be > charged for your pledge until the total amount of pledges reaches the > target amount. > > 25 DAYS > > We have 25 days to raise the amount. When we reach the target amount > fundable.org will send a check to Jack's grandmother in California. > > MAKE THE PLEDGE HERE > > You can make the pledge at this site: > https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/savejacksimbulan.1 > > PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD > > We think this is a very worthy cause -and we hope you can help us help > Jack. Could you also help us by forwarding this email and the fundable > website to your own friends whom you think can spare $25 (or more) for > Jack. > > Read more about jack here: > http://savejacksimbulan.blogspot.com/2006/10/plea-for-help.html > > Or visit his parent's blog at savejacksimbulan.blogspot.com > > Find out about Fanconi Anemia http://www.fanconi.org/aboutfa/FA.htm > > Make the pledge here: https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/savejacksimbulan.1 > > YOU WOULD, TOO > > Again, we apologize for the spam -but we know that if we were in > Jack's parent's shoes, we would try anything and everything to help > our child. We hope you feel the same way, too. > > > on behalf of Jack, and his parents, thank you. > > > Benjie, Vickie and Teo dela Pena > > https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/savejacksimbulan.1 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! 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