The Babies
Thousands of Healthy Babies! See some of the babies of Glory Reborn: Baby Photos.
Our Services
Quality Medical Care has Never Been More Meaningful.
Your Part
Thousands of Healthy Babies, Countless Hopeful Hearts...and We are Just Getting Started!
Join our Cause
The Meaning of Healthcare
In a tri-city area with a total population near 2 million people, I can only begin to describe the situation. An estimated 46.4% of the population live on less than $2 a day, 14.6% of the population live on less than $1 a day! The average expectant mother receives no prenatal care, and has never heard the heartbeat of her baby let alone will she seen an ultrasound of her baby during her pregnancy! The combination of poverty and limited public health care creates an enormous problem for the people of the Philippines!
Comparison of Healthcare Spending
As you can see in this data, the Philippine government spends very little to provide adequate healthcare to the people who need it most!
The Reality of a Problem
Sometimes it is impossible to avoid crisis situations, especially in Less Developed Countries! That is why our staff is fully trained in handling pregnancy and labor complications that may occur. We avoid transport to the hospital when at all possible as the community hospital is full of rats, insects, only once a day cleaning of beds and is an overall miserable and frightening experience. It is not uncommon to find 3-4 women laboring or birthing on the same bed. And there is no such thing as free care. All supplies that will possibly be needed during your stay at the hospital must be purchased before you can enter. This includes everything from gloves to medicines! Thankfully the Lord has blessed us in many times of complications with Divine wisdom and intervention. Perhaps my favorite testimony of this is a patient whose baby came only head out and then was stuck! After two minutes of a baby's head touching air the baby will be brain damaged, after three minutes, the baby will die. We had long past three minutes and were out of all ideas when ten minutes came around and we began to pray fervently! Just then the baby boy shot out. With resuscitation he was breathing and crying. An exam that was later done showed that our little boy had no signs of brain damage and no sign of any distress that would later cause him difficulty! It was a miracle! It was only Jesus and there is nothing like seeing the dead rise!
The Birth of a Solution
In order to help Cebu City, in September of 2002 the Vision of Glory Reborn Organization was birthed in my heart. By March 2003, Glory Reborn Organization was recognized in Cebu, Philippines operating as a FREE Maternity Clinic. I gathered a team of six licensed midwives, most of whom I had worked with before during my previous experience in Cebu and we began doing prenatal exams and teachings in my home. We even had our first birth in my guest room: a healthy baby boy named John David after my husband. As we started to grow we were able to rent a three-bedroom apartment next door to my home which allows us to take on 40-60 births a month as well as perform prenatal exams, newborn check-ups, postpartum exams, and health teachings while getting to know our women on a more personal level. We accept any pregnant woman from Cebu City who is willing to come for regular prenatal exams throughout her pregnancy and is not having a "high risk" pregnancy.