Eagle News reporter Weng dela Fuente reports from the site of the photo exhibit at the SM Mall of Asia that showed the various activities of the Iglesia Ni Cristo’s relief-medical-evangelical service mission dubbed as “Kabayan Ko, Kapatid Ko” which was launched on April 13 last year in Binondo, Manila.
The photo exhibit is housed in a 30 meter by 50 meter tent-complex that was specially built for the event.
No less than INC Executive Minister Bro. Eduardo V. Manalo came to see the photo exhibit when it was opened Saturday morning (April 26) shortly after the special worship service which he officiated at the MOA grounds to commemorate the first year anniversary of “Kabayan Ko, Kapatid Ko.”
In just one year, the project also known as “My Countrymen, My Brethren” has reached millions of people in the country, as well as in other countries, particularly the United States, the Dominican Republic, Malaysia and Italy.
In the Philippines, the project was conducted in various sites in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, the most notable of which were in the areas hit hard by supertyphoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan).
Another major achievement of the project was the Worldwide Walk for “Yolanda” survivors that not only raised additional funds for the typhoon victims, but also earned two new Guinness world records for the charity walk.
The first Guinness record set on February 15 was for the largest charity walk in a single venue involving “validated” 175,509 participants in Manila. The second Guinness record achieved by the INC was for “the largest charity walk in 24 hours in multiple venues” with more than half a million participants worldwide – or 519,221 walkathon delegates — that was an altogether new Guinness world record.
Another new Guinness world record was set on February 22 in Palayan City, Nueva Ecija for the most number of hunger relief packs distributed within eight hours.
INC General Auditor minister Glicerio B. Santos Jr., said next month alone, more “Kabayan Ko, Kapatid Ko” activities are set to be held in the country, particularly in the provinces where the “Lingap-Pamamahayag” or relief-medical and evangelical service missions had been conducted.
The “Kabayan Ko, Kapatid Ko” project is spearheaded by the INC’s charitable arm, the Felix Y. Manalo Foundation, Incorporated.
(Eagle News Service)
