by Kristia Solete | Apr 30, 2021 | Healthcare, Stories
It was the year 2020 when Lilian Mortera, 54, found out that she has a big mass on her right brain and needed to undergo immediate surgery. “We were both busy helping and working with the street children during the pandemic when she got sick. Back then, I remember...
by Kristia Solete | Mar 28, 2020 | Healthcare, What We Do
We have seen how our medical frontliners work sacrificially to serve our nation against COVID-19 crisis – and we help make efforts to protect them! Operation Blessing responded amid strict quarantine guidelines and health risks. To date, our team braved and visited...
by Kristia Solete | Mar 19, 2020 | Children, Healthcare
Kristine, like a typical child, loves playing in the field barefoot. Little did she know that too much exposure to dirt may cause the wound infection on her foot to last for almost six years. When she lived with her father in Davao, the only remedy her father...
by Kristia Solete | Mar 1, 2020 | Children, Disaster Response, Healthcare
On a sunny day of January 12, Taal Volcano erupted after a long sleep of 43 years. Along with the ashes, rash and wounds started to rupture on Nico Galla’s sensitive skin. “When the eruption happened, we boarded into a boat hurriedly, bringing nothing. All...
by Kristia Solete | Feb 1, 2020 | Healthcare
For almost 10 years, Rebecca has been suffering from the impact of a lump in her mouth. In 2009 she discovered a small yellowish hard tissue in her gums. “At first, it doesn’t really look harmful, until it grew bigger and bigger. When I gave birth to my youngest son...
by Kristia Solete | Jan 9, 2020 | Children, Healthcare
Living in the mountains means favorable access to abundance of natural resources, cool breeze of air, and supplies of root crops and vegetables. Dumagat tribe’s origin is the same as Aeta’s in Northern Luzon or the Negritos which are the earliest inhabitants in the...
