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A highlight of every year for the Australian Filipino community in Sydney is the annual Philippine Food Festival at Café Mix at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney. This year to honour 70 years of collaboration between our two nations, Shangri-La Hotel, Sydney will donate $2.00 to Operation Restore Hope for every person that dines at the festival!

Experience authentic Filipino cuisine, including Kare-Kare, Pork Sisig and Chicken Inasal ,expertly prepared by their guest chefs from Makati Shangri-La. The festival is presented in conjunction with the Philippine Department of Tourism and Philippine Airlines.

A buffet lunch will be served from Monday to Friday, from 12noon – 2.30pm, and on Saturday and Sunday from 12.30pm to 2.30pm. The offer is priced at $57 per person for lunch and $ 82 per person for dinner. Call (02) 9520 6000 now to make your reservation.

Don’t miss this event and a chance to enjoy all your favourite foods and support a good cause at the same time!

Amethyst & Jhessarian (Sai Sai) are two little girls who face challenges that most people can not imagine. They both suffer from Oro-Mandibular Limb Hypogenesis Syndrome. The girls were brought to the attention of Operation Restore Hope by our partner Dr Taps Gurango of the Mijares Gurango Craniofacial Foundation. At the time the girls were both unable to open their mouths to feed or breathe and relied completely on naso-gastric tubes. Both girls also have incomplete arms and legs.

Operation Restore Hope has been raising funds and supporting both little girls in their surgeries to release their jaws so that they can open their mouths. The girls have also been fitted with prosthetic legs to allow them to walk but they have a long road ahead.

When Mao & Ohpee from Western Sydney learned about these girls from an Operation Restore Hope newsletter it touched their hearts. They not only made an initial generous donation but have shared this story and spearheaded fundraising which is now taking place throughout the community in churches and through members of PAMA, the Philippine Australian Medical Association.

Thank you all for caring enough to take the time out of your busy lives to help us to help these girls and thanks to all our donors and sponsors who help us to help all the children and their families in the Philippines who have reached out to Operation Restore Hope for assistance.

James Duke with Chris Urbano at their Operation Restore Hope Wine Tasting and Auction Fundraiser in Makati, Manila on 12 May 2016. James is seen here reading a touching patient’s story of his and his mother’s ordeals of being a child with cleft lip and palate and having a child with an easily corrected birth defect and not having the means to address this.

The funds raised on the night will provide life changing surgery for several children. Thanks to James, Chris and The Wine Club for making this possible.

The Wine Club and Chris Urbano present an evening of wine tasting with donations to support Operation Restore Hope.

Special guests Mau & Gab will be in attendance and if you are in Manila we would love for you to attend and by doing so you will be supporting our upcoming mission to Cebu.

Secure your place now as remaining tickets are selling out fast!

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news of the passing of one of our Directors and Team Leaders – Maureen Eddison.

Maureen has left our world all too soon and had much left to give. She was dedicated to and passionate about Operation Restore Hope. Maureen collapsed while on holiday and could not be revived. Her passing is a great loss to us all and our thoughts are with her family at this time.

Heaven has one more angel. We will never forget you Maureen.