CENTRAL CHARITY COORDINATOR

I started a new messenger group in Facebook. It’s called Central Charity Coordinator or C3 for short. My idea is very simple. C3 will be a meeting place or a clearing house between and among benefactors and beneficiaries of charity. Between the givers and the receivers of charity. Over the years, I have observed that indeed, there are many persons and organizations that give charity. There are also many persons and organizations that could receive charity, but more often than not, they do not know each other, and there is usually no place for them to meet and to “transact”. That is where C3 would come in. Although this virtual “exchange” is not a commercial activity, it will in effect become a “marketplace” not only of ideas and plans, but also of goods and services. The bottom line here is really information, meaning getting and giving information about what could be taken and what could be given. More often than not, what could be “taken” is there already, but not everyone knows where to get it, and how to get it. As a matter of fact, the information may already be in the websites of the “givers”, but it takes a certain skill to find it. I am willing to be the one to find it. As Fr. Rocky Evangelista once told me, we should not be ashamed to beg, for as long as we are begging for the Lord and for God’s people. That is why I am willing to be the finder of what needy people need, and if necessary, I am also willing to become the beggar. IKE SENERES/01-11-2024