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Lingkod Timog conducts charitable, educational,
cultural, medical and life enrichment activities to needy areas in the
United States and the Philippines. We strive to alleviate poverty while strengthening relations
between the Philippines and the United States.
Invitation to
May 21-25 Medical Mission 2020
Lingkod Timog invites you to join Lingkod
Timog and to participate in its annual medical mission to benefit the
tribal people in the southwestern
Philippines. This 2020 medical mission will be in May 21-25, 2020
in southern Palawan. The mission will provide medical
consultations and treatment, surgical procedures, and dental services.
Feeding program, personal hygiene instruction and services, and food, clothes and slippers distribution,
among other services are included. You will be responsible for your own airfare to and
from your place of origin to the mission site, and for your own
board and lodging while on the medical mission. There will be no
remuneration for all participants since this is a volunteer program.
Requirements
for Volunteers
(click on green link above)
MEDICAL MISSIONS 2005-2019
2019 Mission
to Tawitawi Province Treats 1,800+ Patients!
Thank you to the Medical Mission volunteers
and the corporate and government partners! Lingkod Timog's 15th
medical mission in February 2019 attended to more than 1,800 medical,
surgical and dental Badjaos, Samals and Tausugs patients in TawiTawi
province in the Southwestern Philippines. The mission provided medical
consultations and treatment, surgical procedures, and dental services.
Feeding program, personal hygiene instruction and services, and haircuts,
among other services were included. The mission sites were in
Sitangkai, the southwestern most island of the Philippines, and in Panglima
Sugala, in TawiTawi island.
Please see the
2019
Mission Pictorial
and the
2019 Medical Mission Report
for more
information.
More than 27,660
Badjaos, Samals, Tausugs, Lumads: Matidsalugs, Kalagans, Mandayas,
Tagbanuas, Palaw'ans, Tao't Bato, Cuyunons, Aetas and other tribal
people received medical, surgical and dental care through the
2005-2019 annual missions.
Many more were recipients of our feeding program, malarial screening,
personal hygiene and related services.
Click to see
Philippines Map of Tribal People Served
2005-2019
Lingkod Timog Through the Years
(play video)
Lingkod Timog
hosted
The Newport Navy Chorister's
"Christmas in Song"
concert
on
Friday,
December 13, 2019 at
St. Lucy's Church in Middletown Rhode Island.
Proceeds benefitted Lingkod Timog's community
service and medical missions
LINGKOD TIMOG TO
CO-HOSTED THE OCTOBER 5, 2019 PCGNY CONSULAR OUTREACH IN NEWPORT
Lingkod Timog co-hosted the
Saturday, October 5, 2019 Philippine Consulate General New York (PCGNY)
consular outreach in Newport to benefit individuals who are not able to go
to New York City consulate for service. Together with Fil-Am Newport and FilAm
Com of South Coast MA, and organized by NaFFAA-RI, the outreach was held at
the Newport Elks Lodge, 141 Pelham St (corner Bellevue Ave) from 10:00 AM to
4:00 PM.
Join
Us
You
can help and join the Lingkod Timog family! We rely on the strength of our
caring community to fund our services and medical missions. There are many
ways you can contribute to Lingkod Timog. You may join our medical missions,
send us donations, help plan and attend our community events, and even offer
your own ideas, support and feedback. To find out more information, or to
speak to one of our representatives, please don't hesitate to contact us!
Contact
Information
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Telephone: +1.401.848.0622 (U.S.)
- Mail: 71
Miantonomi Ave.
- Middletown, Rhode
Island 02842, USA
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Emails:
- US Operations:
Doy Heredia (lingkodtimog@gmail.com)
Philippines: Irene Sabban, Executive Director
(irenecsabban@gmail.com)
Europe: Tiago
Villanueva, MD (tvillanueva@bmj.com)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/157874690939318/
PLEASE HELP -- THANK YOU!
Lingkod Timog is a US 501c3 non-profit.
Your
contributions to us or through our partners may be tax deductible.
Please consult with your tax professional. Send your
check contribution to:
Lingkod Timog Community Services
71 Miantonomi Ave.
Middletown, RI 02842
USA
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HISTORY
The strongest bond of human sympathy outside
the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and
tongues and kindreds.
-Abraham Lincoln
Lingkod Timog was founded by Cecilia Heredia and Irene Sabban, two Philippine
naval officer wives to provide service to their
impoverished Filipino brothers and sisters. "With their gifts of beauty and
grace they decided to shed their light to others in God's name." Irene
recognized that the poor in Zamboanga needed urgent medical attention. Because
many of them happen to be Muslims, they are discriminated upon because of their
religious beliefs, particularly in an age of global terrorism. However, they
are innocent victims trapped in a dangerous region of the Philippines with
little access to aid. Knowing this, Lt. Gen. Juancho Sabban , Philippine Marines
(retired),
then a 2003-2004 student at the Naval Command College in Newport, Rhode Island,
and his sponsor, retired Philippine Navy Captain Armando ‘Doy’ Heredia, decided
to pool resources to help the Badjaos. Cecilia formed Lingkod Timog in Rhode
Island, with Irene as Executive Director for the Philippines operations.
The Philippine Marines provided security for the
medical missions, the Philippine Navy gave logistical backing and medical and
dental personnel, and Cecilia
brought in non-profit medical and other volunteers from the United States. In addition,
they found support from the US Embassy, Philippines town officials, schools, radio
stations, hospitals and medical health practitioners. The 2005 mission was a success and they were able to
treat more 1,000 Badjaos in Zamboanga. Irene and Cecilia recognized that numerous other
Indigenous Pilipinos constantly need urgent medical
aid and services. Lingkod Timog was incorporated as a U.S. non-profit 501(c)3
organization for US community services and with an operating branch in the Philippines.
Subsequent missions added volunteers from Canada, Europe and the Middle East. The
2006-2018 medical missions to Zamboanga, Basilan, Davao, Zambales, Jolo, Palawan, Davao del
Norte, Compostela Valley, and Tawitawi were equally successful. Lingkod Timog plans include corrective
medical missions and future preventive care and livelihood programs for tribal
communities.
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