(Photo courtesy of Gerson Institute).
Who ever said retirees should slow down and enjoy the roses does not know Delilah Galang. A 56-year-old retiree from Valdefuente, Cabanatuan City, Delilah has worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics for many years until her early retirement in July 2007.
She decided not to end the productive days of her life the day she left her job. She worked on being an approved Gerson Therapy Specialist and trained in San Diego, USA and in Tijuana, Mexico. A Gerson Therapy Specialist provides care, rehabilitation, education, support and training to people who are afflicted with cancer, as well as their families.
Delilah explains that
Gerson Therapy is a state of the art, contemporary, wholistic and natural dietary treatment that uses the body’s own healing mechanism in the treatment and cure of chronic illnesses. It was pioneered by Dr. Max Gerson in 1920 and has become the basis of many natural and alternative cancer treatments today.
On January 24, 2000, Delilah set up Cancer Council Philippines, Inc. and began serving as its President and founder. Cancer Council is a charitable organization that aims to be an umbrella coalition for combined services and activities of cancer foundations, associations, advocacy and support groups, individuals, and interested health professionals.
For the past eight years, the founders of Cancer Council have been financially supporting indigent victims of cancer in the Philippines. Delilah knows that with more and more Filipinos getting sick with cancer, the council needs to do more to reach especially those who are less fortunate.
“We have lots of fund raising ideas but we can not start: firstly, we do not know how, secondly, the small amounts of money we gather together from founders are spent on medications we provide to cancer sufferers, thirdly, we are put off by discouragement of friends that it is difficult to ask money from fellow Filipinos,” Delilah writes.
Delilah hopes that through the business mentoring activity of INQUIRER.net, her organization can find ways to raise funds and provide quality health care to more Filipinos.
If you want to vote for Cancer Council, vote through this blog.
The other candidates for the activity are:
Rica Pawnshop and Jewelry Store
QMA Outsource Corp.
Konsepto
Pat’s Floral Supplies
Comteq Computer & Business College
Mandilu
Jyouhou(joho) Technology Inc.
Fountain Cool
No More Slipping, Inc.
(Business Mentoring is a one-year project by Open For Business of INQUIRER.net. We are choosing eight businesses from the ones that applied by email, who will be mentored by Willy Arcilla, regional director of ZMG Signium Ward Howell and president of Business Mentors Inc. Willy is an industrial economist from the UA&P-CRC with a 25 year career in corporate planning, marketing, sales and general management across Asia-Pacific, and is a recipient of the Agora Award for Marketing Excellence.)
Hi Delilah. Here is a vote for you and your group. Maybe we can help out.
wonderful to have people like you. kindly advise how i can contact you, may just have the right fund-raising solution for your group.
Hello Ms. Galang. You got my vote. Cheers!
Hi John, thank you for your vote. Please make contact if we can be of help to you or someone you know. God bless.
Delilah, nihao from Xiamen. I'm voting for Cancer Council of the Philippines. I know how terrible it is to suffer from cancer --- both for patients and families. I witnessed it in my family. So, good luck to you and more power in this noble endeavor.
Another vote.
Del, we your friends here in Australia will continue to support you in any humble way we can. God Bless you!
Keep up the good work Delilah. You got my vote!!!
I vote for Cancer Council. cheers!
Ate Baby, you got my vote.God Bless you.
tita Delilah I know that what you wrote can help many people specially those who have cancer thats why I'm giving you my vote. Just keep up the good work! and God bless you.
Good Luck Del!!! Praying for you and your good cause!
God bless you!
more power and God bless!
you got my vote!
you got my vote!
okidoks
I strongly endorse/vote for Madame Delilah Galang for her steadfast support and untiring care of cancer inflicted people specially the poorest in our communities. She deserves whatever endorsements she need.
simeon d mamaril
good luck& more power God Bless
good luck good health god bless you
you've got my vote
more power & god bless
u've got my vote god bless!
you got my vote
Goodluck!
God bless!
you got my vote.
you got my vote..
I vote of The Cancer Council of the Philippines.
Cancer is the second cause of death in all persons. Prevention and community awareness provided by the Cancer Council would be benificial if it was provided. So please help there cause in helping the human spirit.
God bless you!
you got my vote!
More power!
we are praying for the success of the council.God bless!
God bless and more power!
God bless!
Keep it up Ate Del...
You've got my vote!
More Power!
Goodluck and more power to you and your group!!!
more power!
God bless and more power! cheers!
goodluck. =)
Ate Delilah,we are praying for the success of the cancer council..Goodluck and keep up the good work.God Bless..
God Bless You & More Power
more power!
Delilah, keep up the good work. More power! God bless....
May your great endeavor for the wellness of our society come to reality. more power. God Bless. Ate Delilah
more power. God Bless
More power and God Bless!!
good luck!
May God showered all His healing to all illness thoughout the whole world in Jesus name, I pray amen.
May God bless everyone to continue all
good works for our less fortunate one.
Blessed are the weak, for God's kingdom
are theirs.
May God bless us all anywhere and anytime.
Rowena
God Bless,
Rowena