Reaching Out and Giving Help to Filipino Families in the PH
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The last time I did setup a GoFundMe fundraiser was very successful.
From 2018 to 2024: More than One Thousand families and individuals have been reached out and helped, one at a time.
Families and individuals have been given boxes of groceries, sacks of rice and cash money.
Some families have given a small startup business, we sent medically sick individuals to clinics/hospitals, we brought some individuals to dental clinics, we did treat out hundreds of families & children to shopping malls & indoor playgrounds.
We built brand new houses for some deserving families, we built communal bathrooms/toilets and deep wells for the community in different barangays.
We conducted community pantry and feeding programs.
We did setup a weekend school for the children.
The lists go and on and on, my dear friends.
I've been reaching out and giving help to families and individuals since 2006.
In 2015: I decided to film the good deeds I do and upload on YouTube, to spread social awareness.
In 2018: I did setup a GoFundMe fundraiser account.
In September 2024: I decided to retire from this and I did close my GoFundMe fundraiser.
March 2025: After 6 months, I decided to recontinue the program for the Filipino grassroots.
Yes, I retired, but my heart told me and continues to tell me, that I need to recontinue the program.
Here is the video link of the first family I helped after 6 months from retirement:
The Facebook group page about the program:
My YouTube channel:
I have a crew who help me conduct the program for the grassroots in the Philippines.
How it works:
Your contribution goes straight to the individual/family we reach out and help.
After we reached out and helped one individual/family: We then move on to reach and help another.
Our objective is to reach out one economically poor individual/family, one at a time.
Note: Also consider the production costs every time we interview and film a family/individual.
Making a documentary film about the lives of the families/individuals we reach out is not cheap monetarily, my friends.
Reasons why we film and upload on YouTube:
1. To spread social awareness.
2. To show the viewers and the contributors to the program where their monetary contributions go.
Important notes:
1. I personally don't receive/get/take/pocket any amount of financial contributions from you guys.
Your contributions go straight to the families we reach out and to other expenses.
2. I do not publish on YouTube the stories of the families we reach out w/o a signed release agreement and parental/guardian consent.
The release agreement gives me a permission to publish their stories on YouTube.
3. Business, personal and GoFundMe fundraiser accounts: All the funds, contributions, sources of income and other monetary sources that go into my accounts are being reported to the taxman. My bank also reports to the taxman every year, by the end of the year, FYI.
There's a Certified Public Accountant who does the accounting and auditing of my accounts.
The Certified Public Accountant reports to the taxman.
4. You don't need to open and register a charitable organization/foundation/institution to give help to people in the Philippines.
Reaching out and giving help to people in the Philippines is not illegal.
There's no law that states, that you need to open and register a charitable organization/foundation/institution first, before you are able to give help to people legally.
5. GoFundMe checks the fundraiser account from time to time.
They sometimes ask for verification and validation.
6. My crew & I keep and organize all the expenses receipts, signed release & parental agreement and other documents.
7. I upload on my YouTube channel all the films/videos of every family & individual we have reached out and helped.
My physical home address is in Los Angeles, California USA.
I send money/fund to the Philippines through money remittance.
My dear friends, thank you very much for the support.
Yours,
Mark
Organizer
Mark Rhea
Organizer
Los Angeles, CA