Serge and I want you to know more about the kids from Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center. In its pediatric ward, children are admitted due to surgeries, chemotherapies, and radiations, among many others. With all those syringes, medications lab coats, hospital beds and IVs, for weeks, months and even years of hospitalization, it becomes especially difficult for children to experience a normal childhood inside the hospital (and that’s on top of the need to recover).

Our little PLAYROOM PROJECT aims to provide an ideal playroom for these children. Installing an air-conditioner, replacing and adding more educational, imaginative and not to mention durable toys, fixing basic structures of the room and providing audio-visual entertainment for these children are some of the goals of this project. We believe, advocate even, that through this, the children will experience a more effective play-therapy that will facilitate their healing by reducing the stressful conditions of the hospital. As alumni of Kythe-Ateneo who have spent many years playing with children in the AFP Medical Center, Serge and I still stand with “kids should be flying kites, not fighting cancer.”