Since the start of the spring lockdown, our Filipino staff and volunteers have been visiting police stations in the Zambales region of the Philippines. Every week detainees have been receiving fresh hot meals, medical assistance including telemedicine consultations, personal care items, social services and spiritual comfort.
And as a difficult year draws to a close, this week we were pleased to be able to give every detainee an extra special Christmas meal and a face towel.
We were also thrilled to be able to donate an electric fan to each police station we serve, to cool sick detainees.
Our feeding and medical programme has helped to keep detainees healthy during the pandemic, a time when access to relatives (the usual source of police detainees’ food and medicine) has been much reduced and transit through the courts system has been slowed.
We are grateful to those who donated towards our spring #CoronaCash Appeal, which enabled us to launch this service. It will be expanded and developed in the New Year. And so, once again, any donation - whether large or small - would be much appreciated.