MAKAPAWA
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MAKAPAWA
Overview
A community-based health and outreach program supporting formation, health training, and service in partner communities.
Mission & Vision
Our Mission
Building ecclesial communities, supporting progressive people's movements and initiatives for justice, and reformulating structures of care and grace to be more relevant and affordable. MAKAPAWA underscores service to peasant communities, ecological and feminist movements, and the evangelization of families.
Our Vision
Building God's Kingdom: the reign of truth, justice, and love through the transformation and total well-being of the person in the community, renewal of the earth and social system, and resistance to the globalization of capital.
Services Offered
Programs and Services
- Quarterly Dental Mission - A free dental mission conducted once every quarter at the DWH OPD grounds for beneficiaries from partner communities.
- Basic Health Skills Training (BHST) - Training requested by barangay councils and parish priests for communities needing assistance in alternative health care.
- Community Health Workers (CHW) - Groups of CHWs in 13 areas across seven municipalities provide health services, simple clinics, herbal-making workshops, and income-generating activities.
- Faith Formation/Enrichments and Values Formation Program - Includes Bible study, Bible reflections, Filipino core values, family values, stewardship, Women of the Bible, voters education, and other ongoing formation activities.
- Catechism Classes - Sessions for children ages 7 to 12 years old and youth groups, held once or twice a week on weekends.
- Nutrition and Feeding Program - Feeding activities in different areas through donations from friends of MAKAPAWA, with parents volunteering in food preparation.
- Community Rotation - Public health activities for Post-Graduate Interns, Pediatrics/Pediatric Residents, and Internal Medicine/IM Residents in partner and adopted communities.
- Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation (JPIC) - Education and training for members of LAUDATO SI' to strengthen commitment to justice and the integrity of creation.
- Philberth Scholarship - Orientation, values formation, and community or hospital service activities for scholars.
Procedures & Tests
- Community diagnosis.
- Survey profiling and data collection.
- Community consultation and health education.
- Home visitation.
- Feeding activities.
- Blood donation drives.
- Dental missions.
- Herbal-making training and workshops.
Additional Information
In the light of Benedictine charism, MAKAPAWA specifically upholds: Reverence for people. Calling members for consultation. Thinking together as a community and with the people who come to us and to whom we go. Personal and communal witnessing as Benedictines who pray and work together. Reverence, respect, and refinement in relationships with others. Taking a stand on issues as a fruit of prayer and community discernment. Simplicity of life.