Tahan-Tahanan @ East Avenue Medical Center

This month November, we LOCA group has been  visiting to Tahan-Tahanan, a halfway house in East Avenue Medical Center which houses more than 100 cancer-stricken children.

These children are from far provinces but are sheltered temporarily in Tahan-Tahanan, while they undergo medical treatments in Metro Manila.

Tahan-Tahanan is a haven for kids with cancer. Caring for kids who are afflicted with cancer is very stressful for both the kids and their parents. It requires commitment of the parents to bring their kids for treatment for at least a year. Expenses for diagnostic and therapeutic modalities are restricting especially for the poor.Notwithstanding, society, and the public authorities, shall have the duty to extend particular care to those kids without adequate means of support.

That is how Tahan Tahanan was conceived.

Truly, Tahan Tahan has set to bring happiness to these ailing kids, giving much-needed help to the kids and their needy families in their distressing plight. After all, happiness is “an illusive, transitory thing but if you bring happiness to someone else, then it comes to you.”