Facing the Future
The idea was just to do simple volunteer work: recruit student volunteers and visit hospitals once a week. But opportunities began to open, and donations started to come in. “Oh dear, we must account for these,” reacted Girlie Garcia (now Lorenzo), co-founder of Kythe, the erstwhile volunteer group-turned-full blown non-profit.
She asked her father, the late Atty Ramon P Garcia of the Philippine Stock Exchange and Meralco, for guidance. “He told me to run it like a corporation but maintain the heart of a NGO,” she recalled.
Lorenzo started Kythe in
