Candidate Number Ten: Cancer Council of the Philippines

(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.)

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