OBANDO AND ZOMBALES

De La Salle Universtiy is one of our wheelchair partners. They can prescribe both standard and supportive wheelchairs. We went with them to do what they call a "mission" into both Obando, just an hour or so (depends on traffic) to the west of Manila and then down 9 hours to the south to Zombales. Obando was the first such wheelchair distribution I had been to. I had a lot of fun and then later figured out that I needed to stop playing with the kids and start doing some work about keeping track of wheelchairs.

Here we are setting up. You can see Sis Casaol in the background. Those are our yellow LDS Charities shirts

This is Dra Licuan in the polo shirt. She is in the Dean at De La Salle.

We gave this gentlemen a Rough Rider. It is a chair mean to be for those move themselves around. It has a lot more maneuverability.

This is Sister Mercolita in her LDSC shirt

I played a lot with this happy young lady. It is hard for these kids when you first put them in a supportive chair because it feels uncomfortable to them.

This is me in a few more years.

You can see the big boxes that house our wheelchairs. 

Only our Elder and Sister Mercolita and Sisters Flores and DeGuzman accompanied the DeLaSalle team to Zombales. They left an a Saturday night and arrived there at about midnight. They worked all day Sunday after attending the local branch and finished their work on Monday morning.

Our "tarpaulin" as it is referred to by our missionaries

Elder Mercolita was asked to give a Sunday message about why the church gives chairs. Sorry about the smudge on Sister's camera

Sister Mercolita at work

I wanted to go badly to Zabales. You can tell it is beautiful.

Getting to work