In its 10th leg of the Summer Charity Caravan 2009, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) spearheads activities and campaigns to infect people with the contagious the charity virus spreading in Bohol. PCSO will be visiting 20 provinces and municipalities in time for the 75th Anniversary of the sweepstakes.
Kaibigan ng PCSO attempts to recruit and mobilize thousands of volunteers for the various activities of the charity agency, particularly its historic National Medical Mission this September.
For the diamond anniversary, the PCSO puts up an ambitious simultaneous national medical and dental mission in the country’s 42,000 barangays on September 6.
A medical mission also unfolded at the Bohol Cultural center while the team also entertained requests for financial assistance to those who cannot afford to send their sick relatives to the hospital.
For 2008, reports said PCSO has served 163,948 patients, and released a little more than P143 M for various medical and hospitalization aid for the VisMin areas. (PIA)
