LIFT-B.A.B.I.E.S. was founded as a result of the travails of Jess and Lulu Matubis and their family with Jeremaia, their first and only grandchild who was born March 2, 1999 with biliary atresia and who needed a liver transplant in order to live. By the time she was eight months old, she was just skin and bones, her life wasting away.

A transplant was not possible locally, only abroad which would cost around P10 million, an amount that the Matubis family could not afford. There was no local organization that could help them find a liver transplant for Jeremaia, much less give advice about the disease and how to go about looking for help.

By the grace of God, after the Matubis family prayed to the Lord for the miracles that Jeremaia needed, everything began to happen. She was accepted by Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minnesota as their first humanitarian case from Asia, meaning the Matubis family didn't have to pay a single centavo.

She was given a liver transplant March 30, 2000, just 14 days after she arrived in Rochester.

Jeremaia today is a healthy, precocious, intelligent, sociable child who turned six years old last March 2, 2005. She is presently vacationing with her grandparents in the Philippines, together with her mother, Jesselou.

LIFT-B.A.B.I.E.S. and our Hospital Outreach Program is the Matubis clan's way of thanking and paying back the good Lord, for all the blessings that He has showered on Jeremaia and the Matubis clan.