After just one week after the dental team from the USA came, we did another round of dental mission. This time, with 11 dentists from Denmark. It was 2-weeks of non-stop work for the dental team. The first week, the dental mission was held at Camp 7 National High School in a mountains area which […]
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Just as the month of June was about to end, we received a volunteer dental team from the University of Pacific in San Francisco. Every year the University sends a dental Charity team to a poor country in South and Central America, but this year they chose to work together with Rise Above. One of
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Alex and Roberta, the founders of Travelers with Cause, organized a team of 10 Mexican volunteers who came here to Cebu to do community service and activities with us at Sambag Dos as well as other communities nearby. During the 13 days that the volunteers were at the center, they were able to repaint the
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We are so glad that our sponsored kids graduated from different year levels that they were in. There are those who graduated from our childminding program at the Family Care Center. Then we have sponsored children who graduated from Elementary and High School. Junevieve and Merivic, two of the students we sponsor for college, got
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At the end of 2018, we received books from the U.S. for our centers. It was awesome. On January 26 of this year, we picked up books from the port. These books were sent by Cheer Up Mission America through our friend Ken Landriault. Ken, aka “Smiley” visited the Philippines just after typhoon Yolanda or
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On its second year running, Grade 1 students of Paref Southcrest School together with their adviser, Ms. Josephine Fajardo, hosted a Christmas party celebration for some underprivileged children of Sitio Sambag Dos, Guadalupe, Cebu on December 8, 2017. The children who went to the party are kids aged 6-7 years old, who reside in slum
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Last November 21, 2017, Rise Above Foundation social worker interns from the University of the Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF) together with the Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor (DWUP), held a Leadership and Values Formation Seminar for residents of Sitio Sambag Dos, Barangay Guadalupe, Cebu. The seminar, held at the Rise Above Community
It’s fun to see how different stakeholders from the community come together to help each other. Today, representatives from UnionBank Cebu came to the Rise Above Community Center and gave an early Christmas surprise for the kids. They came with prizes, food, and school and office supplies for our two centers. They also played with
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Run to Give 2017 has been such a huge success.It has been soooooo much fun and people came together to run, be healthy and make a difference for many mothers and children. This is the first year that Cebu City Marriott Hotel hosted this event. And we are so privileged that they chose Rise Above
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A few months ago, more than 300 households were misplaced due to a big fire which happened at Sun Valley, V.Rama Road, Cebu. In these households, there are around 2 to 3 kids in each family. After the fire, they had to stay in the local gymnasium without the basic supplies. One of our Alternative
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