Programs : MERCY PROGRAMS

ICM has several programs which provide special assistance to individuals and communities facing special challenges.

Care Clinics

• ICM operates medical clinics at each of its five bases which are open to the poor on a walk-in basis five days per week.
• Health assessments and services are provided by trained medical professionals
• About 3,000 patients are served each year
• Approximately 360,000 doses of medicine are dispensed each year
• Serious cases are referred to local doctors who volunteer services to ICM patients

Special Medical Case Program

• In the course of interacting with the tens of thousands of individuals in ICM’s programs, ICM staff members often discover individuals with serious medical problems who do not have the means to pay for the medical treatments they need to recover.
• Generous ICM donors have established Special Medical Case Funds which are set aside to specifically cover the costs of those medical procedures.
• Each year thousands of patients, with conditions ranging from electrical burns, hernias, broken limbs, cancer and complicated pregnancies, receive the medical help they need free of charge.

Tuberculosis Care Recovery Shelter (CRS)

• ICM’s CRS provides residential medical care for chronic TB patients.
• Up to 98 patients are nursed back to health yearly, each staying from six to nine months.
• Patients receive three nutritious meals per day as well as monitored tb medications.
• As patients recover, training is provided in organic soil production, container farming and other livelihood opportunities.

Children’s Shelter

ICM’s Children’s Shelter, located in Negros Oriental, provides a home to 18 children and young adults who have no families to support them. The children of school age all attend public school during the day and work together on their homework in the evening. ICM is providing these once vulnerable a healthy family environment, full of yummy meals, countless hugs and bedtime stories.

Red-Rope Project

ICM’s Red-Rope Project is a hand-sewing livelihood initiative for a group of talented, but poor women in Negros Occidental. These industrious Filipino women produce high quality hand-made quilt products which are sold in Hong Kong, the Philippines and the USA. Products include silk and linen cushion covers and table/bed runners, custom made bed quilts, hand-pieced miniature quilt-square coasters and ornaments and baby quilts.

Slum Reconstruction Project

ICM is partnering with Gawad Kalinga, a non-profit Catholic organization of the Philippines, to rebuild the entire 800 family Riverside slum in Banago, Bacolod City. As of August 2009, 50 families have moved into their clean new homes.