Mar & Cora Canlas, Bing & Marilyn Nevada.
Mayor and Vice Mayor - Doctors Melanie P Valdez & Alfredo - provided venue, transportation for volunteers from lodging to the venue site and sightseeing, assistance with during the mission with cataract referrals and screenings -- we all felt so welcomed by the community.
The mission was made possible because of a Lions International Foundation Grant (LCIF). The Sponsoring organization was Lions MD 19G in Southwest Washington State, USA. the Host organization was the Olongapo City New Horizon Lions club from District 301-D1, Zambalas, Philippines. Lion Cesar Santiago, MJF was the Host coordinator from Olongapo and Lion Jim Weyrich, O.D. MJF was the Sponsoring coordinator for the mission.
The Hosting Club, The Olongapo City New Horizons Lions Club provided the venue site plus food, lodging and transportation for the volunteers. They screened the recipients to prove indigency, provided transportation for the cataract recipients to the hospital where the free surgeries were performed. The coordinator host was Cesar Santiago from the New Horizons Lions Club. The three other surrounding Lions clubs also were present every day and contributed greatly to the success of the medical / vision mission. The Golden Heights Lions Club, The Olongapo Primera Lions Club and the Subic Bay Lions Club.
SEE International provided the Nylon Sutures, anesthetics, syringes, surgical gloves and other surgery medications for the mission.
Resources for the blind, another longtime partner, provided the operating microscopes, surgery instruments, surgery nurses and procured the volunteer Filipino ophthalmologists who performed the eye surgeries plus arranged for the donated surgery sight.
EyeCare WeCare along with its 25 seasoned volunteers, provided all the high tech instruments to give a comprehensive eye examination to 1,984 indigents, providing them with free eyeglasses, eye medications and screened for the Cataract Surgeries.
EyeCare WeCare received its eyeglasses LERC (Northwest Lions Eyeglasses Recycling Center) in Olympia, Washington, USA, the Oregon Sight and Hearing Foundation in Portland, Oregon, USA. The biggest source of the recycled eyeglass (which was omitted from the Banner) is the Northwest Kiwanis Clubs SOS (save old spectacles) program.
The Lions Clubs from Lions MD 19G who donated towards this mission were the Aberdeen Lions Club, Boistford Lions Club, Camas Lions Club, Central Park Lions Club, Clearwater/ Kalaloch Lions Club, Columbia Crest Lions Club, Hazel Dell Lions Club, Hoquiam Lions Club, Longview / Kelso Early Birds Lions Club, Washougal Lions Club and District Governor of MD 19G, Kathy Morrison.
Mayor - Hon. Isidoro "June" Hermedes, Jr.
Hon. Jose G. Alcabasa, Jr.
The Co Hosts were responsible for payment for the travel of the mobile clinic from Negros to Batangas Round trip, they provided all the meals and lodging and transportation to and from the motel to the mobile clinic every day, the transportation for the day after the mission when all the volunteers went to Tagatay and saw Lake Taal and the Taal Volcano.
Palompo, Petronilo "Pat" & "Dolly"
These are persons and organizations that made it possible for this Medical Vision Mission to Happen.
Salonga USN (RET), Akom Jose L.