Welcome to the Filipino Children Program Page
Our Mission:
We have developed a program to provide medical care for the Filipino children who are enrolled in the Rise and Rebuild International Foundation’s feeding program and to educate medical students about important global and humanitarian medicine.
The University of Utah School of Medicine is working with Rise and Rebuild International Foundation as they feed many thousands of children in the Philippines each day where we wil provide the appropriate medical care to see that these children are healthy. Twice each year, our medical students and others, go to the remote areas of the Philippines where we are working with their children. The students need your help to get them there and to provide the medical care.
Will you help us with this amazing and highly successful program to help children in the Philippines? The lives of these children depend on the generous donations of people like you. Your tax deductible donation goes directly to the School of Medicine that supports this program.
GETTING THE FOOD READYY
Here is what the medical school is doing.
We help provide the much needed deworming medicine - Albendazole - to make certain the food we feed them is going to the kids not the words.
Many children do not need nutrition but just need the deworming pill. We are evaluating this.
We provide general health to the children.
We help with the administration of food to the children each day.
Do You Want to Come to The Philippines and Help? Please contact Richard Ingebretsen.
The Expeditions To Treat the Filipino Children
feeding the children food from risde and rebuild
March 2023
Ryan Olson, Richard Ingebretsen, Grace Richards, Mason Stephens
This trip focused on discovering the area where we would be operating. We needed to know the scope of problem and an estimate of the number of chilrdren we would be working with. It was important to know where we would be staying and understand transportation. We also began taking surveys with the children to know the scope of their diseases.
Dr. Jusitin coles EXAMINing one of the children in the feeding program.
October 2023
Justin Coles, Merri Luczak, Richard Ingebretsen
This trip focused on research and examining the children.. We examined many children and reviewed medical and scientific literature to ascertain the extent of soil transmitted helminths (worms) in the children. We found that a high percentage of the children (90% or more) had a significant worm burden. This meant that the food that the children were eating was being absorbed by worms. Our goal then would be to ‘deworm’ the children. Our was summarized in a report.
To read the report that was published, click the title below.
Giving the filipino chldren deworming medicine
October 2024 - March 2025
Justin Coles, Merri Luczak, Richard Ingebretsen
These trips focused on administering deworming medicine to the children in the program. Enough money was raised to purchase nearly 280,000 tablets of the medicine so that children that were not in the program could also be dewormed. Giving children medicine requires working closely with the community health and city leaders.
October 2026
Aaron Dustin, Sam Goodson, Aeyan Gomm, Matthew Guthrie, Brock Hansen, Dave Hoffman, Richard Ingebretsen, Corbin Luettinger, Luke Werner
