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Post date: December 16, 2016

Title: ICSF Serves First Annual Beverly Williams Memorial Mission

Teaser:

Beginning this year and for each year in the future, ICSF will designate one of its surgical missions as the Annual Beverly Williams Memorial Mission. This year the site was Kabankalan City, the Philippines, August 6-19.

Post date: July 17, 2016

Title: Myra’s Luck

Teaser:

The ICSF team had just finished a long trip in the Philippine mountains on hired motorcycles in search of a postoperative ICSF patient. As the team members reached the paved road, they lamented that they had not found the little patient they had been looking for. As they began to enter the waiting car, they noticed a little girl standing among a small group of onlookers at the roadside store.

Post date: July 17, 2016

Title: ICSF Serves Four Southeast Asia Missions in First Quarter

Teaser:

Cadiz, Kabankalan, and Dipolog, Philippines, and Hai Phong, Vietnam, were all the recipients of ICSF surgical missions in the first quarter of 1016.

Post date: July 17, 2016

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Teaser:

The School Teacher

Ever since the beginning of my full-time service in the developing world, I have wondered how far children in a disadvantaged environment can go with the right set of helps and influences. I think I am beginning to find the answer—and it’s staggering.

Post date: July 17, 2016

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Teaser:

The School Teacher

Post date: January 17, 2016

Title: ICSF Serves in Philippines & Vietnam in Third Quarter

Teaser:

There are no summer vacations at ICSF. July and August saw ICSF treat 58 children, all free of charge, in the countries of The Philippines and Vietnam, respectively. The July mission to Kabankalan, Philippines was a follow-up mission to take care of leftover children who came to ICSF’s February mission but could not be accommodated due to the extra large turnout.

Post date: January 17, 2016

Title: The Hanoi International Women’s Club Awards Grant to ICSF

Teaser:

The Hanoi International Women’s Club (HIWC) is composed of influential international women of high standing. Many are the wives of ambassadors or other officials from various countries, while others are successful businesswomen. One of the main interests of this women’s group is to provide help to poor Vietnamese children.

Post date: January 17, 2016

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Teaser:

Not Poor Enough

“You’re not poor enough”, explained the mission doctor. Eighteen-year-old Resty had a severe birth defect of his left lower eyelid and was starting to have some scarring of his cornea and loss of vision as a result. He also had a deformity of his upper lip and nose. He had gone to many free surgical missions for help but always had been given a reason why the mission could not perform his surgery.

Post date: September 06, 2015

Title: Philippine Province Thanks ICSF by Legislative Resolution

Teaser:

In April, when ICSF completed one of its largest missions to date, serving 56 children in the Philippine Province of Zamboanga Del Norte, no one knew it would end up in the annals of the provincial parliament.

Post date: September 06, 2015

Title: MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

Teaser:

A Tale of Two Rosemaries

The first Rosemarie was 11-year-old Rosemarie Alcuernon. When I first saw her she looked like she had been extracted from a subterranean dump. Her hair was tattered and hanging partially over her face, although it did not hide her permanent scowl.