In the past, dental care has been provided by Operation Restore Hope Australia for its children at Paranaque Community Hospital in Manila and at Lapu Lapu Hospital in Cebu.

Several years ago, the International Gospel Centre donated a dental chair to Lapu Lapu Hospital but at Paranaque the dentists have had to work by placing the patients on maternity beds and prop their legs up on upturned paediatric bassinets. In fact, we had to provide sunglasses for the kids to wear as we had to use general operating lights and did not have dental lights.

No more! Due to the generosity of a retiring local oral surgeon, our kids in Paranaque will have 2 fully electrical dental chairs with lights. In fact this generous man donated other critically needed equipment as well such as 2 suction units and a lot more besides. On behalf of all the kids:THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

We have a Filipino Ladies Fundraising Committee as well as a medical supply committee and our medical volunteers who are constantly planning not only to ‘keep up the good work’ but to expand and improve it with each mission.

Membership renewals are now due, so if you are already a member you should be receiving a reminder in the mail. If not, why not show your support and become a member. It only costs $10 per year with a one time $10 application fee. If you are interested, please contact us at Operation Restore Hope Australia on 02 9362 7480.

Many people don’t realise that even when our surgical teams aren’t operating in the Philippines that clinics are still being run by our volunteers. These clinics which are held at the hospitals in which we work are to screen the children for surgery, to educate their families on the special needs of their children (how to care for them both before and after surgery) as well as programs to medicate children with chronic problems like asthma or tuberculosis so that they will be fit for surgery. While all this is taking place in the Philippines, our teams of volunteers here need the whole year working and planning to amass the medical supplies, equipment and personnel as well as to have the children ready so that we can do over a hundred of operations in the few weeks we are operating.

We have a Filipino Ladies Fundraising Committee as well as a medical supply committee and our medical volunteers who are constantly planning not only to ‘keep up the good work’ but to expand and improve it with each mission.

Membership renewals are now due, so if you are already a member you should be receiving a reminder in the mail. If not, why not show your support and become a member. It only costs $10 per year with a one time $10 application fee. If you are interested, please contact us at Operation Restore Hope Australia on 02 9362 7480.