Asian Hospital Charities Launch Ma. Lourdes Luna Giving Heart Program for Elderly Care

The family of the late philanthropist Ma. Lourdes Luna poses with representatives from Asian Hospital Charities, Inc. and Metro Pacific Health-CSR during the elderly care program debut in Bahay Kanlungan in Muntinlupa City.

The Asian Hospital Charities Inc., (AHCI) kick-started the Ma. Lourdes Luna Giving Heart Program for the Elderly on July 12, 2025 through twin outreach activities in Muntinlupa City.

The program was established in coordination with the Metro Pacific Health (MPH)- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit through the recent check donation from the heirs of the late philanthropist Ma. Lourdes Luna intended for supporting the senior citizens in need.

Ma. Lourdes Luna left a legacy of passionate life and works to help the destitute and the distress among the elderly. She passed on July 10, 2024 after long years of charity and volunteerism works in schools, prisons, homeless shelters and homes for the aged. Her advocacy for the elderly was shaped by her long career as a dedicated social worker in a hospice in USA where she nurtured the big heart for people in their later years that she had wished to be perpetuated.

Luna’s sister Liza Luna Kapauan, brother Joseph Luna, together with her nephews Martin Kapauan, and Victor Kapauan and niece Joyce Nazario, herself the head of MPH-CSR, personally led in the activities in Bahay Kanlungan and Teresa Orsini Home, both in Muntinlupa City. The highlights of the activities include donations of daily essentials like food and supplies as well as wheelchairs. Residents of the institutions wee also treated with free lunch and enjoyed a short program of singing and dancing.

In her speech, Nazario conveyed the message of her late aunt Ma. Lourdes Luna on her wish for uplift the lives of the elderly even after her passing. Bahay Kanlungan and Teresa Orsini Home are both established to provide care for the abandoned, rejected, and neglected elderly people.

On hand to participate in the activities are AHCI Board of Trustee Member Joel Garcia, Executive Director Joy Umali, Admin Associate Maria Gina Timola and Social Worker Chiela Mae Vistal. MPH-CSR were represented by Nazario and consultant Jude Trinidad.

The Ma. Lourdes Luna Giving Heart Program for Elderly Care is an AHCI outreach program that ensures the less fortunate elderly are given the necessary healthcare, nutritional and social support services as well as provided with the compassion, care, assistance and dignity that they deserve.