It was a rainy Sunday in the town of Matnog — a gloomy weekend for the people in the southernmost tip of Bicol. But for Tricia Robredo, the day could not get any warmer after personally experiencing a huge wave of volunteerism during the town’s People’s Assembly on April 10, 2022 led by the Sorsogon Doctors for Leni (SDL).
With the help of Kakampink Matnog chapter, a volunteer group of students and young professionals, the Sorsogon Doctors for Leni welcomed the second daughter of the vice president with a program of performances and voters’ education to a hopeful crowd of two thousand Kakampinks.
The event also served as a perfect platform for Sorsogon Doctors for Leni to announce an upcoming medical mission in the same town on April 24. In her talk, Tricia Robredo commended the group’s unwavering efforts for the people of Sorsogon, being a medical practitioner herself.
Since the beginning of the year, Sorsogon Doctors for Leni has been conducting a series of medical missions across the province. The dedicated volunteer-doctors have been offering free assistance including general, pediatric, gynecological, and dental consultations. They have also been providing medicines and laboratory tests at no cost to hundreds of Sorsoganons.
Chedie Cambaliza, president of Sorsogon Medical Society and a member of the Sorsogon Doctors for Leni, spoke during the assembly and shared that he’s supporting the vice president because “he saw that the she cares for the doctors” specially during the pandemic, after receiving PPEs from the Office of the Vice President just when they needed them. Now as a group, they aspire to emulate the vice president with their own volunteer works for the Sorsoganons in the “laylayan.”
With the medical mission happening in less than two weeks, Sorsogon Doctors for Leni and Kakampink Matnog both hope that the people’s assembly helped them inspire more volunteers to join their cause. And now that they have received Tricia Robredo’s stamp of approval, no heavy downpour could dampen their motivation to address two of the major struggles of the country this election season—the local health situation and voters’ education.