Former Volunteer Wins a Movie-Making Contest

18th January 2008

Malcolm Trevena - a two-times former volunteer - has won a movie-making contest for the work he did in Uganda!  Check out the video here.

You might also want to check out Malcolm's volunteer experiences in the Philippines here and here.

Malcolm is due to volunteer in the Philippines (again!) in August 2008.  He plans to stay for two years and we can't wait to have him back!
 

Rice Three Times a Day

15th January 2008

We were not scheduled to start our Environment project that day so we decided to return in the afternoon and start painting.. With four of us working we made great progress. The teachers are all very appreciative and the children are sweet. At each break time we have an audience of several children watching silently or asking “What is your name”. Their instruction is in both Filipino and English but their English is still in progress, hence the questions that they have learned in class. We enjoyed the painting experience so much that we returned Thursday and painted all day, with a break to return for lunch with our host family. We intend alternating between the Environment and the Painting projects during our stay here.

To learn more about Ray and Jeanne Burnham's volunteer experience with CERV, click here.
 

San Augustin Certificate to CERV

10th January 2008
The municipal government of San Agustin (Romblon) awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to CERV-Philippines following a series of medicine and supply donations by one of its volunteers.

CERV volunteer Dr. Carly Bannon, MD donated PhP62,250.00 worth of much-needed medicines and supplies to the town’s Municipal Health Office and the San Agustin District Hospital operated by the Provincial Government of Romblon.

In a formal program at the San Agustin Town Hall, the awarding ceremonies was led by San Agustin mayor Emmanuel F. Madrona and municipal health officer I Dr. Deogracia S. Muleta, MD .

The certificate cited CERV’s “valuable and continuing contributions to the municipality through (its) foreign health volunteers…their untiring efforts to exchange knowledge and technology with local health workers…(and) their warm and harmonious…relationship with the people of San Agustin, Romblon.”

While it is the practice of health office and the hospital to issue certificates to donations, this is the first time that the Local Government Unit and its Health Office awarded such a certificate to CERV-Philippines.

San Agustin is CERV-Philippines’s provincial placement, located on the archipelagic province of Romblon south of the country’s main Luzon island.