A few weeks ago, AJ Rafael(YouTube sensation with almost a million subscribers, a Filipino-American singer-songwriter from Riverside, CA ) asked Waraynon Initiative Network (WIN)’s Board Member & VP for Project Planning and Networking, Maxinne Vergara to help out on a project he was doing, which as it turns out was to spearhead a number of performances in East West Players’ first virtual gala (EWP is the longest-running Asian-American theatre company in Los Angeles).

So, a few WIN Orchestra members were tapped to perform in a video to a Disney song (Show Yourself from Frozen II) featuring Deedee Magno Hall and Joan Almedilla. Kudos to the following WIN musicians for this undertaking!

Mak Corpin
Carl Marchel Corpin
Jajan Corpin
Germaine Kempis
Kaela Cecille Omega
JD Damarillo
Alex Alexander Juhan
EJ Tugonon
Khris-Raymond Kempis
Maxinne B. Vergara
Yu-Ting Wu

The music ensemble had to stay small for the purposes of video editing, but the arrangement and orchestration were brilliantly done by both Khris and Alex! It’s exhilarating to see familiar faces playing music again!

They would have been busy in the thick of preparations for a concert which WIN had to cancel due to the pandemic.

The Mask Initiative launched by Waraynon Initiative Network (WIN) as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic has concluded. KN95 masks, reusable breathing armors and surgical masks with a combined total of about 850 pieces were donated and distributed to almost 2 dozen hospitals, nursing care facilities and healthcare clinics in California, Nevada and Texas.

About 50 breathing armors were donated by WIN Board Member Jason Colasito and distributed primarily to WIN members who are frontliners and their families to safeguard each other from the virus. The Care meals project for the healthcare and USPS frontliners has also come to a close. 500 lunch packs was provided to the healthcare heroes at the EVRMC hospital in Tacloban City, Philippines last May 12-13, 2020.

To support the drive against hunger during this global crisis, a $500 donation was made to the food bank managed by Isaiah’s Rock in Chino, CA.What’s next? -The Lunch Packs for the seniors of the Cathedral Chapel of St. Vibiana in Los Angeles was provided last May 12, 2020. Another lunch sponsorship will be done on June 23, 2020. WIN is in the last stage of its due diligence efforts, and as soon as it is completed, a donation to the food bank of Mary’s Kitchen in Orange, CA will be made. ——

We are very thankful to our donors and supporters for giving us help and enabling us to thrive and help so many in our infancy years. Imagine a world with a cure & treatment for COVID-19.

We hope for what we can only imagine!

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#WINhasanattitudeofgratitude

#ConquerWINgtheworldwithkindness

Masks found its way to the Southwest.

Another mask donation from WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN) was received by the staff of the Medical- Surgical Telemetry Unit of Texas Health Resources in Plano, TX.

THANK YOU Health Heroes for helping us WIN this fight!

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Masks found its way to the San Jacinto Valley – Another mask donation from WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN) was received by the nurses and surgeons of the OR at Hemet Valley Medical Center in Hemet, CA.THANK YOU Health Heroes for helping us WIN this fight!

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Masks donated by Waraynon Initiative Network (WIN) were also received by the staff at the OR/City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center in Duarte, CA.

The camera-shy frontliners conveyed words of gratitude for the donation!

#wewillWINthisfight

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#hopeforacure

Handover of KN95 masks donated by WIN (Waraynon Initiative Network) was done by WIN Member Agnes Pido Yaranon to the staff of the Ortho Dept at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, CA.

Thank you for helping us WIN this fight!

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#healthcareheroes

Masks delivered down south – KN95 masks donated byWIN (Waraynon Initiative Network) were received by the staff of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), Scripps Chula Vista in Chula Vista, CA.

This hospital has seen an increasing number of admission of COVID-19 + patients, a few of which undergo an operative procedure.

PACU, Scripps Chula Vista: -Thank you for helping us WIN this fight!

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Handover of KN95 masks donated by WIN (Waraynon Initiative Network) was done by Board Member Michael Neil V. Omega to Nima Lal, RN Supervisor of the Psychiatric ER at Olive View – UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, CA.

Thank you for helping us WIN this fight!

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Masks, masks, masks-KN95 masks donated by WIN (Waraynon Initiative Network) were received by the staff of the Pediatrics, NICU and Maternal Child Educator units of Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, CA.Together, we will protect one another.

Thank you for helping us WIN this fight!

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Receipt of masks still keep trickling in – Another mask donation from WARAYNON INITIATIVE NETWORK (WIN) was received by the staff of the Kidney Center/OP Dialysis Ctr at Loma Linda University Health in Loma Linda, CA.

Dialysis patients are at a high risk for serious complications, even death, from the corona-virus. However, dialysis patients do not stop their treatments during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Therefore, heightened protection and safety guidelines have to be enforced to protect both the patients and the healthcare personnel.

WIN is happy to supplement the center’s resources to ensure that these guidelines are followed. THANK YOU Health Heroes for helping us WIN this fight!

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