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
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