GOOD LOOKING YOUNG MAN

After years of being ridiculed because of a cleft lip and palate, this young man poses with me with confidence.

Doctors of the Maharlika Charity Foundation under mission head Dr. Benedict P. Valdez performed a surgery on this young man for free and fixed his cleft lip and palate.

Ordinarily, a surgery to fix a cleft lip and palate would cost about P70,000 to P80,000. The Maharlika Charity doctors do it for free and even give out medicines donated by kind-hearted individuals, the most consistent of whom being Senator Chiz Escudero.

Chiz Escudero has always donated medicines for all of the medical missions we have conducted in the province of North Cotabato in partnership with the Maharlika Charity Foundation.

(photo by John Pagaduan)