Dengue Awareness Advocate The Sandy Project Marks 5th Year with Fundraising Activity
With dengue concerns rampant for many years now, it is
deemed important to raise awareness from this mosquito-borne disease. One of
the worthwhile advocacy we have in the country now concerning dengue-awareness
is The Sandy Project. As it marks its fifth year now, this advocacy that has
been teaching school-age children on the dangers of dengue and how best to
protect themselves from it will be holding a fundraising activity this February
12, 2018 at the Green Sun building in Makati City.
The project named after the daughter of Lawyer Ma.
Louella “Peaches” Aranas started the advocacy in 2013 after her daughter Sandy
succumbed to dengue when she was 10 years old. For this fundraising, her group
is looking for benefactors who will help with this project to reach at least
5,000 school kids for 2018.
Dengue is in the front page since last year when
scandal relating to the controversial vaccine and immunization program launched
by the government resulted from the deaths of several children who undergoes the
vaccination and immunization program. Atty. Aranas is convinced that the Sandy
Project is on the right track and this February, its 5th year of
advocacy, they will hold the “Night of Thanksgiving and Charitable Giving”
event.
In an article that was featured on Manila Standard,
Atty. Aranas shared, “More and more it’s becoming clear to me that my advocacy,
and how it started, I’m really in the right direction, because of the relevance
and importance of keeping the children aware of dengue and teaching them how to
take care of themselves, which leads to the prevention part.”
The dengue awareness and prevention campaign advocacy
focuses on the children as the target audience. Atty. Aranas, a successful tax
lawyer running her own LMA Law firm, has been largely self-funding this project.
In previous years, the project has reached 300 children in Quezon City and
Bacolod City.
In this time of fear, we need to be conscientious
enough, and help in the awareness and prevention of this disease. For more
information on The Sandy Project and its fifth year activity next month, you
can visit www.facebook.com/thesandyproject
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