Advocating Reduction of Poverty and improving the Quality of Life for our Poor Filipinos
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
NSVI "No Needle/No Scalpel" Vasectomy Mission in Cebu & Manila
FREE No-Needle NSV Mission in Cebu & Manila
NSV International Inc. (NSVI) will be back again to conduct “No Needle/No Scalpel” Vasectomy Mission in Cebu on Feb. 1-3, 2012 @SWU Sacred Heart Hospital and Feb 6 @ the Manila Adventist Medical Center.
No-Needle NSV is a modern, hi-tech vasectomy, which is a Safe, Simple & Quick (15 min. or less) no incision, no suture, just Band-aid! and lately No Needle! anaesthesia, almost always Painless!
This is a good Option and a great Opportunity for those who don’t want any more additional children! After NSV there is NO CHANGE in sex drive, in climax sensation, in the testes/scrotum, in erection or strength. This can even improve sexual relationship of the couples since there is so no more worries for unwanted pregnancies.
NSV Orientation/Education has been conducted for months already and during the mission. NSV is voluntary and intended only for those who are interested.
Many have already underwent NSV, i.e. workers, drivers, laborers, etc. The Fil-Am NSVI Founders themselves (and their families/relatives) have had their vasectomy many years ago, are satisfied, hence their strong advocacy for NSV esp. to the low income families with several children. NSVI started conducting NSV Missions in the Phils. in 2001 and the No Needle NSV in 2009, the 1st in the country.
Engr. Bob Kiamco is the Head of Missions and among the Team of Surgeons are US Urologists & NSVI Founder/President, Dr. Ramon U. Suarez, & Dr. Douglas G. Stein with local NSVI certified surgeons. Dr. Stein is one of America’s top Doctors, (from Florida)is affiliated with 4 star hospitals and 4 star medical schools, vasectomy service provider for 31 of Florida's 67 County Health Dept. and has been invited in several countries related to NSV. Dr. Stein has performed over 26,000 vasectomies, as of Oct 2011, ( www.vasweb.com) pls. visit also www.nsvi.org.
For NSV Facts Sheets, NSV Orientation, Pre-Registration and other information pls. contact the undersigned or Ms. Myrna Danuco, SWU Sacred Heart Hospital, Urgello St. Cebu City, Tel 4188980 /09228230298 or in Manila pls. contact Dr. Bibly Macaya Tel 5259191 or email: biblymacaya@gmail.com
Ms.FROHNIE D. CAGALITAN, RSW
Pro QUALITY LIFE Trng. & Devt. Inc
e-add: proqualitylife@gmail.com
Tel (032) 4166084 / 09275719399
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| Feb 2011 "No Needle / No Scalpel Vasectomy" Mission @ SWU Sacred Heart Hospital, Urgello St. Cebu City, Phils. |
“Poverty can be reduced, if GOs/LGUs/NGOs and concerned citizens, will help Educate
our POOR families to Responsibly PLAN their family. Options & Opportunities
must be provided, for them to be Less Reproductive (and Economically Productive).
Pro QUALITY LIFE Training & Devt. Inc
Sunday, December 25, 2011
NSVI conducted 2nd No Needle NSV in Haiti
Sharing to you the 2nd NSVI Mission in Haiti. Early next year NSVI President- Dr. Ramon Suarez, Development Director Dr. Douglas Stein and several doctors/vasectomists will be here in the Phils. 1st week of February to conduct No Needle NSV Mission. For details pls. contact: proqualitylife@gmail.com
http://www.nsvi.org/where-we-work/haiti/haiti-2011/








http://www.nsvi.org/where-we-work/haiti/haiti-2011/
Second NSVI Mission to Haiti – May/June 2010
A summary of the second NSVI vasectomy mission to Haiti was compiled by NSVI Development Director Dr. Doug Stein before he was comfortable with the use of WordPress, the software used to compile this NSVI website. So rather than repeat it all here, we ask that you click the link below, which will open another window.
Second NSVI Mission to Haiti – May/June 2011
NSVI President Dr. Ramon Suarez performs a vasectomy as Dr. Fritz Lolagne puts the patient at ease in Creole.
Dr. Stein operating until well after dark, while Dr. Lolagne learns that the patient has eight children and his assistant Lisette stands ready to assist with post-op instructions. In Plaisance there is no public electricity and no running water, but we had plenty of batteries for headlights, sterilizing solution, and bottled water.
Don’t forget to click the link above for the whole story.
Third NSVI Mission to Haiti – October 2011
Inspired by the success of the mission to Plaisance and the willingness of Pastor Myrtil to lead another, NSVI made plans to return directly to Plaisance in October. Pastor was scheduled to be in Pilate and Plaisance in October to work on his other mission, the Duvivier Project, with supporters from a church in Indiana. Drs. Stein and Suarez would return to Plaisance after he had been in Haiti for enough time to set up a location and spread the word that free vasectomies would be offered October 10 & 11. They would save transport time by taking IBC Airways nonstop from Ft. Lauderdale to Cap Haitien, where Pastor Myrtil would pick them up for the two-hour drive to Plaisance. Orlando Pediatrician Dr. Ted Kaplan (who introduced Drs. Stein and Lolagne to each other) offered the assistance of his organization, the Cap Haitien Health Network. In fact, his Haitian-American wife Elizabeth would accompany Drs. Stein and Suarez on their flight from Florida to Cap Haitien. Dr. Lolagne and his surgical assistant Lisette offered to drive Elizabeth and any other CHHN staff from the airport to Plaisance. And thus began the Third NSVI Mission to Haiti.
During this second mission in Plaisance, the NSVI Team performed 44 vasectomies, up from the 32 performed in Plaisance during the mission of May 2011. We have every reason to believe that the numbers performed during future missions will continue to rise as the men and women of Plaisance enjoy the freedom to nurture the children that they already have without concern for unwanted pregnancy and the burden of too many children.
Without the dedication and assistance of the Haitians and Haitian Americans who share our vision, these missions would not be possible and the families of Plaisance would not have the option of quality dependable male-oriented contraception.
We cannot continue without donor assistance. The Board Members of NSVI have given thousands of personal dollars to support the missions of NSVI. Ourvolunteers in the Philippines in Haiti are paid to barely cover expenses, but it hardly covers their time. Only a love of their homelands and a deep-seated belief that their services will enhance the lives of their countrymen inspires them to help year after year. Even if the Board had unlimited personal funds, the IRS requires that 501(C)(3) corporations demonstrate that substantial support comes from outside the organization. A donation to NSVI is support for children, who can claim more of their parents’ emotional and financial support if they do not have to compete with numerous siblings. A donation to NSVI is a donation to the environment and wildlife, elements of which can be saved only if we can control the human population, a population which will inevitably take back what has been set aside for wildlife as a matter of their own survival. Please help us to continue our mission. In doing so, you’ll make it your own!
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Responsible Parenthood
Posted on November 08, 2011 09:21:38 PM
Responsible parenthood
I do not see population explosion as the core issue on the RH bill. Countries with large populations, such as China and India, are surging ahead as emerging world economic powers. In the Eastern European countries, the unfavorable dependency ratio or overly slow population growth, is threatening the survival of seniors, whose pension and health plans cannot be properly covered by the inadequate contributions from the younger generation.
My own view is that the core issue on the RH bill is that of enabling a Filipino family to live within its size and means, to the end that it is able to provide a good quality of life for its desired family size.
There is no need to debate that in fact, most of our families are unable to provide adequately for a better life for its members, in terms of education, proper nutrition, shelter, and good health. These are the basics that they need to provide, in order that the next generation may have broader options in opportunities for the kind of life they would prefer to have. Surveys have shown that the Filipino couple prefers to have fewer children than they already have.
When a couple does not plan the size of their family, and does not, or is unable to ensure that their goals are met, they are acting irresponsibly, or are deprived of true freedom for themselves, and especially for their descendants.
There is a time for everything. At this time in our country, we are not able to provide enough jobs, and enough social services to enable the large majority of our families to obtain proper schooling, easy access to quality health care, decent housing, and proper nutrition. The percentage of families that suffer involuntary hunger is shamefully large. Because of irresponsible use or misuse of our natural, economic and fiscal resources by previous generations, we have to run in order to stay in place. There is so much catching up to do.
Meanwhile, all the stakeholders, the Filipino families, the government, and social institutions including the religious must work together to ensure that until we are able to provide adequately for present and future needs of our families, we must educate young couples and enable them to effectively determine the size of the families that they will responsibly bring into this world.
As the President has said, we must inform and educate couples on how they can do this; and help provide those who are unable to obtain the means with which to freely and effectively determine the size of their families with the means. This way, we ease the burden for responsible parenthood on both the family and the state.
The Catholic Church has no business interfering in the government’s work of enabling families to take better care of their own, by enabling them to procreate and live within their means. There is enough evidence that natural family planning methods are ineffective in most cases. Celibates have no idea how difficult these are to implement effectively. And it is not true, as pro-life advocates have been claiming, that the pill causes abortion. This campaign has gone too far and is irresponsible. The authority on this matter should be obstetrician-gynecologists and scientists who are experts on human fertility matters, not morality ideologues.
As our country is able to catch up and provide enough of the social service needs of our people, and as urbanization and better education enable couples to effectively determine the size of their families, there will be less need for laws to be enacted just for the government to be able to provide family planning education and methods to help the poor. They will be able to help themselves. And there will be less of them.
Meanwhile, unless we pass the RH bill now, most of our families will continue to be deprived of adequate food, health care, housing, and education. And the Philippines will continue to be a nation unable to provide its people with their basic freedoms: from hunger, from ignorance, from disease, and from stunted development of their human potential. We will continue to see hungry, ill-clad, and dirty children walking the streets at night, sleeping on pavements, because their parents were not prepared to have them. We will continue to have landless rural poor cutting young trees in the forests and destroying mangroves and our sustainable environment, in order to turn them into marketable charcoal. This is cruel, irresponsible, and un-Christian; and we cannot continue to allow it. Ladies and gentlemen of Congress, we must pass the RH bill now!
Grassroots & Governance
By Teresa S. Abesamis
Sunday, November 6, 2011
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