{"id":184012,"date":"2020-04-08T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T16:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=184012"},"modified":"2023-06-27T12:36:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:36:30","slug":"yseali-alumnus-continues-to-help-those-in-need-covid-19-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/04\/yseali-alumnus-continues-to-help-those-in-need-covid-19-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"YSEALI Alumnus Continues to Help Those in Need – COVID-19 in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YSEALI<\/a> alumnus and founder of Accessi Wheels<\/a> disability service in Quezon City, Philippines Miggy Bautista is doing his part to get people with disabilities where they need to be during the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n

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Bautista was part of the ninth group of YSEALI students<\/a> hosted and administered by UConn\u2019s Global Training and Development Institute (GTDI).<\/p>\n

Bautista received the $500 grant from UConn that all YSEALI participants have the chance to apply for by formally submitting their business proposals. He will be using the funds to build a food based add on to his business employing people with disabilities.<\/p>\n

His company, Accessi Wheels, enables people with mobility problems by connecting customers to trained drivers with accessible vehicles, and they\u2019re continuing their efforts through the virus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe salute the brave and good hearted Partner Volunteer Drivers who are on Frontline and service to our regular hospital patients this #COVID19<\/a> situation!\u201d posted Accessi Wheels on Facebook.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Embassy in the Philippines<\/a> shared Bautista\u2019s work with their community of over half a million Facebook followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the suspension of public transportation as part of the Enhanced Community Quarantine to address #COVID19<\/a>, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative<\/a> alumnus and AccessiWheels Founder Miggy Bautista are helping patients get to their regular medical appointments, such as dialysis and therapy, by connecting them to a network of volunteer drivers with personal vehicles,\u201d the Embassy said on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n

The U.S. government has provided approximately $18.3 million in emergency health and humanitarian assistance to ASEAN Member States since the outbreak began, according to the State Department website.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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For more information on the YSEALI Initiative and U.S. for ASEAN in fighting COVID-19 visit the United States of America Department of State U.S. Mission to ASEAN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

His company, Accessi Wheels, enables people with mobility problems by connecting customers to trained drivers with accessible vehicles, and they\u2019re continuing their efforts through the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":184013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2380],"class_list":["post-184012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-affairs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 13:15:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184014,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184012\/revisions\/184014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/184013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184012"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=184012"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=184012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}