Furniture workers benefit from medical mission

DEDON Manufacturing held its third annual medical and dental mission inside the company compound last Oct. 28.

Around 1,000 employees of the furniture manufacturing company in barangay Canduman, Mandaue City together with their children availed of free services ranging from ECG, bone scan, pediatric consultations, eye checkups,  medical and dental consultations and pap smear.  They also received milk and free medicines.

Doctors from the Visayas Community Medical Center in Cebu City Medical and volunteer dentists attended to the needs of the medical and dental patients respectively.

During the activity, the company also treated the children to a snack of porridge.

Ervyn  Reduña, 29, his wife Charlene Mae and their son John Hazekyah Vnze were among the beneficiaries of the mission held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Reduña thanked Dedon after availing of free pediatric consultation and free medicines for his son, who was then having cough.

Dedon chief executive officer and managing partner Herve Lampert said the activity held every October is their way of giving back to their employees and their dependents and is one of Dedon’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives.

The company’s other CSR initiative is the housing project in Compostela town in northern Cebu for the scavengers of Umapad dumpsite in Mandaue City.

Last Aug. 26, Dedon turned over houses to each of the ten families composing the first batch of beneficiaries.

Lampert said 20 more houses will be turned over to the beneficiaries on Dec. 2 and another 20 houses on February next year.

Lampert said Dedon also created livelihood projects for the beneficiaries.

These include gardening project where its harvests such as eggplants, beans, squash and other plants will be sold by the beneficiaries, with the proceeds turned over to their cooperative, and the  making of fashion accessories and arts and crafts, which started last Oct. 29. /EDITORIAL ASSISTANT TITO P. TAN