Bicol Region calamities from the typhoon and
mudslide captured many citizens’ attention, Filipinos and non-Filipino members of the Philippine Nurses Association
of America (PNAA) to volunteer services, donate monetary funds, medical supplies, and staples to various communities. The
national chapter, PNAA collected donations from local chapters to help out citizens of the Bicol Region.
On January, 2007, the Philippine Nurses Association of Oregon and Washington
(PNA-OR/WA) did an extraordinary job of rendering medical/relief mission to the Bicol Region. The team effort of the members
namely Espie Navalle and her husband, Maria Susi, her husband, and son, Melody Hoener, and Lucy Laeser, her sister, brother-in-law,
and nephew, all contributed to the great success of our first medical/relief mission to the Philippines.
From the assessment and news brought to us by
friends, families, and the media, PNA-OR/WA decided to donate over-the-counter medicines, first aid kits, staples, clothes,
and clinic supplies.
PNA-OR/WA would like to acknowledge Father Andrew Recepcion, Father Fidel Mamerto
A. Bagayaua, and Mely and Joe Recepcion for their assistance, in the success of this mission.
The donations to the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church and
The Missionaries of the Poor (MOP) reached 150 families. The MOP is a young and vibrant institute living a monastic life in
community with an active apostolate among the poor. Religious Brothers and Priests from different nations offer free and joyful
service to the least in several countries. MOP is dependent on the community donations and public support to provide care
of the mentally challenged children, orphans, street children, crippled, sick and elderly, and aids patients.
