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Christmas love gifts for poor families
As we have done for several years already, we have requested help from our friends, offering to bring their Christmas donation in the form of care packages out to poor families in Cebu. Loaded with rice and dry goods, the team set out to bring Christmas to families who are very poor and have no [...]
CONGRATULATIONS TO JEANREY CORDOVA
HONOR STUDENT – STUDYING FOR A BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ACCOUNTANCY A few years back, Dr. Per, one of the volunteer dentists from Denmark, told us that he would like to help a young person in Cebu receive a good education. Having just atteded a Kiwanis meeting where one of the points on their agenda was [...]
RISE ABOVE COMMUNITY CENTER
Progress is being made. A group of Canadians from Developing World Connections worked with us for 10 days, and in that time, the rest of the wall around the property was done. We appreciate all your hard work and support for the center. At the same time, the construction workers that were laying the roof, [...]
Volunteers from Developing World Connections at Rise Above Community Center.
COMPLETING THE WALL AROUND THE PROPERTY. We were again blessed to have another team of volunteers from the Canadian Foundation: Developing World Connections. This is the second time we have had volunteers from their foundation this year, and every time they come it’s to help with the building of our new community center, as they are [...]
Alfonso Diaz receives an artificial eye
Blind on his right eye from the age of 1 When Alfonso was one year old, his right eye was hit by a barbecue stick. Right after the incident, the mother, together with Alfonso, went to a hospital in Cebu for an eye check-up. The surgeon who was examining the eye of Alfonso, asked the mother [...]
Rise Above Community Center
Center for Women and Children In Guadalupe in Cebu City, we are building a center that will hold a clinic, computer class room for out of school youth who have dropped out of high school because of lack of money, a kitchen, bathrooms and an outdoor dining and children’s play area. The center will cater [...]
THE DENTAL MISSION IS COMPLETED
PHASE 3: DANAO IN BOHOL Early Friday morning, we packed up and left Bayawan City, driving back to the port and loaded all the equipement and all our luggage on to the two banka boats, and sailed to Panglao Island, which is part of Bohol. Kurt, a German man who owns a resort and who [...]
DENTAL MISSION TO BAYAWAN CITY, SOUTH COAST OF NEGROS ORIENTAL
TRAVEL TO BAYAWAN Monday morning, the two banka boats picked up the dental team and our main sponsors from Letsshare.tv from a resort in Moal Boal. The ocean had calmed down, and there was no wind – absolutely beautiful! And then we saw the dolphins. They came right next to the boat swimming as fast [...]
DENTAL MISSION JULY 2011
Moal Boal is situated on the west side of Cebu island, and its beaches and resorts are visited by foreigners and Filipinos alike. Though there is a flourishing tourist business, most of the people are poor fishermen and low payed people who struggle to get ends to meet financially, so dental treatment is far down [...]