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Quota International of Manila South

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Our Mission...

Members of Quota International are committed to serving their communities and the world in two (2) specific avenues:

- Service to the deaf, hard of hearing and speech impaired inviduals

- Assistance to disadvantaged women and children

Why the deaf and the hard of hearing? Well, if you look closely at the less fortunate, can you pick out the one kid or adult who is deaf or hearing impaired and mute too? Chances are you can't and that tells you their disability is not physically seen and are therefore absent in people's concerns. Unlike the blind, the quadriplegic, the lame, the autistic, they do not manifest their ineptness and lack of skill on the outside. Moreover, they not only lose one but two faculties - their hearing and speech as well. How unlucky can one get?

Quota's other concern is the disadvantaged women and children. Why? Because a mother and child are tied together by the umbilical cord, by the apron string but most important of all, by heartstrings. What can a helpless child do without one on whom she is so dependent on from childbirth to adulthood, particularly in the Philippine setting, with its matriarchal culture?

We cannot emphasize enough that there are many others who are in need in various communities. We also do not deny the fact, that we can only do so much. However, the spirit of sharing is what drives us to do even more to reach the greater majority where government's social services are deficient.

Life is a journey that offers many opportunities to become complete persons. Quota opens the door to serving others. In sharing ourselves, we help make our communities, our country and our world a better place.

Quota Clubs in the Philippines:

Bacolod
Cebu
Davao
Iloilo
Las Pinas
Legazpi-Mayon
Mandaue
Manila
Manila South
Pampanga
Paranaque
Talisay
Alabang ** new

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A few Quota clubs in the Philippines

Quota Collect
 
Q  uench in our hearts, O Lord, all fires of selfishness
U  nfold to us the joys of true friendship
O  pen our minds to a better understanding of service
T  each us the real meaning of sharing
A  nd help us to hold high those principles of Quota for which we stand.
 
Quota Song
 
Now we come to the end of this Quota day
Which shall long remain in our hearts.
And so as we go each our separate ways
With the joy that this day has brought.
 
For Quota means sharing at work and play
And friendships that never fade.
As we clasp at the end of this Quota day
The hand of a friend we've made.

Current Projects of QIMS...

1. Medical assistance to the underprivileged cancer-stricken children



2. Improvement of the Deafness Resource Library at the Joseph Gualandi School for the Deaf



3. Expansion of a clinic and increase medical supplies at the Luwalhati Ng Maynila Home for the Aged



4. Audiometric tests in various barangays



5. Scholarships for deserving deaf students



6. Livelihood training projects in beauty culture



What We Have Achieved...

QUOTA INTERNATIONAL OF MANILA SOUTH (QIMS) is now 13 years old and has undertaken so many projects throughout the years.

Speech and hearing impairment being Quota International's main service, QIMS outfitted the audiovisual requirements of the Sisters of the Little Mission for the Deaf's special school as their first project. This was followed by audiometric testing, free hearing aids and repair of old ones, and phonic ear transmitters. Not limiting themselves to the deaf, QIMS did projects for the physically and mentally disabled needing scholarships, crutches, specially designed tri-bikes, wheelchairs and the like. They also donated used clothing, groceries, and toiletries for unwed mothers, street children, and victims of natural disasters. Medical assistance for indigent cancer patients, young and old, came next and so too for sexually abused kids.

They have furnished special education schools with furniture, science equipment, mimeographing machine with scanner, computers, classrooms, art and school supplies. Scholarships and transportation allowance were given to deserving deaf students. Parents of the disabled and the disabled themselves were given opportunities to earn a living by selling, sewing, photocopying, and loofah-making. QIMS's concerns even included the environment with Waste Management Programs and tree planting.

Nebulizers were given to public hospitals such as the PGH and funding was made available for chemotherapy medication. A special ambulatory room in PGH was refurbished complete with television, VCR and movies for entertainment, five La-Z-Boy chairs, cabinets and sofa beds.

Their first Club-to-Club World Service project, the Center for Disabled Persons in Morong, Rizal, which was funded by Quotarians and Quota clubs abroad, boasts of a multi-purpose building where physical therapy and livelihood sessions are held. Their second ongoing project, called the Deafness Resource Library, will be solely dedicated to the topic of Deafness and related areas, a first in the country.

Being an all women service club, QIMS also undertook a legal advocacy campaign entitled, "Handog Sa Kababaihan" to educate women and children. They've trooped to Talisay, Batangas bringing aid for schoolchildren's needs, especially slippers. For the Luwalhati Ng Maynila's 125 elderly men and women, ages 60 to 92, pajamas and housedresses, toiletries, cleaning items were distributed.

Exposed to so many outreach programs through their 13 years in existence, the members of QI Manila South are humbled by the needs of disadvantaged people in the communities they've visited, that they cannot look the other way and pretend it is not there. They have resolved then to do what they can in their own small way to spread the message of sharing and good will and more so now in this time of economic misery.

:: as of December 2005

Complete history of QIMS