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Lions Metro Baguio holds art show/auction for sick kids on induction day

HELPING HAND. Jaime Tee, right, pose with members of Lions Club Metro Baguio during a game of basketball with former club president at Hotel Supreme owner Peter Ng, third right. The club and Supreme Hotel will hold an art exhibit cum auction on March 31 during the induction of the club’s officers for the 2021-2022 period which Tee will lead. Proceeds will go to beneficiaries of the Helping Hand, Heal Heart Ministries, Inc. especially kids with cancer. Photo from Jaime Tee’s Facebook Page

When Jaime Tee assumes leadership of the Lions Club Metro Baguio on March 31, indigent young cancer patients will be the highlight of his induction to the top post.

It will be the art works of these of children suffering from cancer from the Helping Hand, Heal Heart Ministries, Inc. that will be the highlight of the ceremony ushering the Abanao Street businessman’s assumption of leadership of the civic group.

It will be an art exhibit cum auction night for the works of the kids at the Supreme Hotel, which will serve as gallery for their recently finished art works in acrylic and watercolor on canvas as well as drawings.

Tee says that the children will be absent because those suffering from the dreaded disease are not allowed to go out as well as in observance of the health protocol for Covid-19.

“Two adult representatives from the Healing Hand, however, will be present for the auction cum exhibit that will be part of my induction as president,” Tee told the RNG Luzon.

“The money raised in the auction will be used for the treatment of the kids. We also provided the materials for their paintings, thanks to our donors,” added Tee, an avid 10-pin bowler and basketball player.

Helping Hand is a private foundation that give assistance to people suffering from diseases especially children with cancer.

Tee said that his officers that will lead the club for the 2021-2022 will also be inducted as well as the investiture of new members to the civic group, the oldest in the city and known to have been instrumental in building the famous Kennon Road effigy, the Lion’s Head.

Lions also lent its name to the famous Burnham Park landmark, Melvin Jones, founder of the club.

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