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Dental and Medical Mission: Being On Call
Patients often need enormous courage to fight sickness. But with doctors and dentists ready to help and serve, there’s no need to lose heart. “Thank you Rise Above, doctors and nurses! Because of this mission, I was circumcised for free,” said Rochecar Septimo in Visaya, one of the kids from the community. The mission is [...]
RAF, SAC hold feeding program
Feeding a stomach is not just a random act of kindness it works miracles! For the many Filipino children food is not a basic right anymore but an amenity that their families can’t afford. The program provides healthy, fresh and nutritious meals for the children living nearby the community center. Its desire is to give [...]
Internship Program for Danish Pedagogy Students in Cebu City
INFORMATIONAL MEETING We have now run the internship program for 10 years, and through the years there have been many changes streamlining the program. Flemming holds yearly meetings at different colleges and universities in Denmark discussing with international coordinators how the program can benefit the students the most. Locally, much time is spent communicating with [...]
RISE ABOVE ALS PROGRAM
ALS stands for Alternative learning system. About 40% on Filipino youth drop out of high-school, mostly because of poverty. Rise Above wishes to help the youth complete their High School, so that they will have more opportunities for a better life. This is one of the reasons that we opened the computer class room with [...]
DENTAL MISSION JANUARY 2013
Treating the poor in Cebu City. Every January and July, we arrange Dental Missions. Since we started holding dental missions 10 years ago, tens of thousands of patients have been treated. The first 2-3 years, we only offered extractions, but then, seeing the need, we were able to borrow mobile equipment from KADVO, a Japanese [...]
FUN CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY AT FAMILY CARE CENTER
PHOTO ALBUM MAKING ACTIVITY BY DANISH INTERNS The Christmas is over us and in the RAF center we decided that this year the children should make a Christmas gift for their parents. We were going to make a photo album of the kids! All the kids were so exited and concentrated while making the [...]
Clean and Green Activity
GARBAGE HAS BEEN A PROBLEM Since we started building the Rise Above Community Center, there has been a constant problem with garbage. We have had several meeting with the officials and also the residents, but nothing has happened. So when Karen and team offered their assistance, asking how they could help us, we knew exactly [...]
INAUGURATION of RISE ABOVE COMMUNITY CENTER
A MILESTONE FOR RISE ABOVE On the evening of October 26, 2012, we held the inauguration of the Rise Above Community Center. The center is located at the outskirts of a very poor area called Sambag II in Guadalajara, Guadalupe in Cebu City. The people in the area live in shacks and are counted among [...]
JULY 2012 DENTAL MISSION A SUCCESS!
1160 PATIENTS RELIEVED OF THEIR PAIN I don’t think I have ever seen so many rotten teeth as during this Dental Mission. The reason might be that at all the 3 venues where we set up the clinic, they had never before been visited by volunteer dentists. As mentioned in our previous blog, the main [...]
Dental Mission July 2012
FIRST TIME FOR THE PEOPLE OF DAWAHON ISLAND TO RECEIVE FREE DENTAL TREATMENT Having sponsors that wanted to help the poor population on outlying islands, we prepared for the dental mission to be yet another “island hopping” adventure. Traveling so far with all the equipment and a large team of volunteers takes a lot of [...]