Better health for the people in the barrios

Good health is the most important factor that should be considered when one has to improve the standard of living of every Filipino family. 

We should be one with the government and non-government institutions in its goal to make healthcare more accessible to the Filipino people. We feel privileged to be given the opportunity to partner with the government in this endeavor and be a part of the solution to the problems of healthcare in the country.

Countries cannot release the full talents of their people unless they have healthy bodies.
- Dr. M. G. Candau

catalysts for change

It's not about us.

It has never been about us and the things we have done for the community. To say we are the agents of change would be a pretense, if not hypocrisy.

The cry for change is and has always been within them. It may not be readily apparent but it's there. We are mere catalysts, the agents are the PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

more than just a community exposure..

To gain insight into the life of the indigenous people in the community, and be able to completely understand and help them, ONE MUST FIRST LIVE THE WAY THEY DO.

Not just merely knowing what the kinds of food they prefer but learning to eat with them; or not simply be familiar with their beliefs, but become skilled with their practices; and not only to be acquainted with their misconceptions, but affirm that these really are fallacies, making the first step to bring all of these to a halt.

Touching young lives: Tsiking Basura Program

CHIKITING BASURA PROGRAM is a one-day, creative, lecture-discussion, classroom-based program spearheaded by the Ateneo de Zambanga-School of Medicine 2nd year students.

This program, which was implemented last October 2014 at Goaw Elementary School and Goaw Daycare Center, aims to raise the awareness, and consciousness of pre-school and school-aged children regarding proper solid waste segregation. 

This activity is one of the group’s strategies in answering one of Barangay Goaw’s most obvious environmental problems: lack of proper solid waste segregating practices.

Through instilling knowledge regarding proper solid waste disposal and waste segregation among the ‘future generations’ of Goaw, we are one step closer in accomplishing the overall goal of decreasing the number of households who do not practice waste segregation in the Barangay by year 2017.

Empowered to serve: The First Aid and BLS Training

It was a long shot.

To conduct a First Aid and BLS Training in the outskirts would mean we have to provide the materials for the demonstration, overcome the rough terrains to transfer these materials, look for a competent speaker to do the lecture demonstration, provide the food of the entire participants during the duration of the event, and the list goes on.

That being said, the computed financial need went beyond the budget. We had no one to finance the activity. Just as we were losing hope, the group from Goin offered to collaborate with us. With this, we were able to split the financial burden between the two community groups.

The third major problem dawned on us a day before the activity. The guest speaker came all the way from Dipolog City. Fortunately, the heart to serve was present in both parties, that he endured the hours of land travel to grace the event.

October 18 marks the day when everything became possible. Fulfilling one vision , the medical students assigned in Liloy in collaboration with Philippine Red Cross-Dipolog Chapter conducted a First Aid and BLS Training targeting the barangay leaders and BHWs of a far-flung community.

It was all by God's grace that even after all the mishaps, the event came to pass successfully. It was more than what we expected. Not only did the participants gained skills on emergency response, they also managed to establish camaraderie and team work.

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Rolling our sleeves up.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook.