Miss World group pledges financial aid to PGH, Tuloy Foundation

•  Beauty with a Purpose program donates $25,000 to PGH

•  Pledges $10,000 a year to Tuloy Foundation for street children

Miss World Megan Young and MWO President Julia Morley visiting kids at Tuloy Foundation. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

NEW YORK, New York — Miss World Megan Young recently returned to the Philippines with Miss World Chairman Julia Morley and made several visits to public service institutions to pledge continuing support.

The Philippines’ flagship hospital, Philippine General Hospital, established in 1907 (PGH) as the nation’s largest hospital has room for 1,500 patients. Morley, Young and Miss World Philippines Director Cory Quirino met with the director of the hospital to discuss ways in which MWO could help.

After a tour of the hospital and the meeting, Morley announced a pledge of $25,000 on behalf of Beauty with a Purpose program, to build an onsite school and outdoor play area for the children in long term care at the PGH.

Currently there is minimal access to stimulating and educational activities for the children. With this donation from MWO, the hospital will be able to help the development of the children by supplying a whole array of educational classes and schedules, from mathematics to music, for all ages.

Quirino also pledged support from the Miss World Philippines Organization, which would provide three million pesos towards a new emergency treatment ward at the hospital, a much needed addition.

During their stay in the Philippines, Morley and Young also paid a visit to the Tuloy Foundation. Founded in 1993 by Father Rocky G. Evangelista, SDB, the Tuloy Foundation is a safe environment that houses children who would otherwise be living in the streets.

Starting with just 12 children in a 40 square meter room, the Foundation has grown over the past 17 years, serving more than 10,000 children in need. The small room is now a village on 4.5 hectares of land in southern Metro Manila, currently caring for 900 children.

Morley called  Fr. Evangelista “the person I admire the most in the world.” She pledged a minimum of $10,000 a year for the next three years from Beauty with a Purpose to support the work of the Tuloy foundation, which relies solely on donations.