700 children benefit from retirees organization's medical mission

• Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2015/08/05/700-children-benefit-retirees-organizations-medical-mission-422897
• Wednesday, August 5, 2015

By Reynaldo G. Navales

ANGELES CITY -- More than 700 children in Barangay Capaya and other villages in this city benefitted from a medical mission conducted by the Returned and Services League (RSL) of Australia Angeles City Chapter recently.

Barangay Balibago Chairman Rodelio Mamac, coordinator of RSL Angeles City Chapter, said that they also distributed free medicines and vitamins to the kids.

Aside from this, the RSL officers and members led by their president lawyer James Curtis Smith (father of actress Anne Curtis) donated wheelchairs to at least five physically challenged children.

The beneficiaries include Raven Lee Gahoy, 5, of Capaya 2; Jamaica Faith Valencia, 5, of Pineda Compound Capaya 2; Zach Singian, 9, of LNS Subdivision Barangay Santo Domingo; Justine Mallari, 10, of Magsaysay Street Capaya 2; and Daniel Cano, 7 of Purok 3 Capaya 1.

Mamac said the group was able to extend assistance to children with illnesses and disabilities from several barangays in the city.

Other selected villages, including EPZA and Cutcut and others, were among the venues of the RSL’s monthly medical mission, according to Mamac.

The organization is committed to provide medical assistance to help the communities of Angeles City and Pampanga, the village chief added.

"We have donated wheelchairs, hearing aids, medicines and vitamins to indigent children. We will continue our program that will benefit our less fortunate constituents," Mamac said.