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Guimares Island
... were other activities to keep us busy. So we headed back to Bacolod city where we took a nice hotel room and spent our last day in the Philippines watching movies.
Then it was an early morning to cross to catch a bus across Negros, a boat across the Tanon strait and another bus across Cebu to Cebu city where we would catch a flight to Hong ...
Farewell to the clinics..
... sooner.
We are off on our final weekend excursion tomorrow early. We leave at 7am to visit all the VFV placements that we did not work in like the Dumpsite Project, Build a Home project and others. From there we load up for a van/boat ride to an island off the coast of Leyte as our final weekend destination. Not sure what to expect but I'm sure I'll have great stories when we return late tomorrow night.
Until ...
Dagami - Take Two!
... tests are traditionally done at the hospital level here due to lack of resources.
After clinic we had lunch at a wonderful Italian restaurant (Gustivin’s) in Robinson’s. It’s so funny to order food here because you really never know what you are going to get. Photos and descriptions on restaurant menus aren’t really followed and the Filipinos have a really hard time with vegetarianism. Meaning they think I’m nuts whenever ...
The Road to Dagami
... education, contraception usage, religious beliefs, etc… Sex education and prevention could be an entire country-wide program here as far as I’m concerned. Wish I had more time to give. Here’s why, in a population of 30,000 people the nurses told me that DPV (Depo-Provera) is the most common contraceptive with approximately 50 people using it. Birth control pills, approximately 40 people. Less than 100 documented people out of 30,000+ using ...
Impressed by Iloilo's Imagery
... of beer the last leg of our trip — a spiritual safari into three ancient churches found in three quaint towns along the southern coast of the province!
Foremost in our list is the world-renowned St. Tomas of Villanova Church a.k.a. Miag-ao Church, the 225-year old heritage church that’s among the five Baroque churches in the Philippines that were included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1993. ...