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1997 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership from the Philippines. Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, a surgeon, works for the poor. In 1974, she volunteered to help establish a medical mission on the shores of Lake Sebu in Mindanao. There she built a crude bamboo infirmary and treated T'bolis, Manobos, and other hill tribes from the surrounding mountains. With no ready supplies and with only the simplest instruments to work with, Sister Eva performed miracles of improvisation—operating by flashlight and substituting coconut water for dextrose. To extend health services beyond her small clinic, she trained local men and women to serve as "barefoot doctors" in isolated villages scattered across the hills. Working through Our Lady of Peace Mission, which she founded in 1986, she extended a helping hand to needy communities throughout the city. Since then Sister Eva has been doing numerous volunteer works to help the underprivileged in their medical and health needs.
In electing SISTER EVA FIDELA MAAMO to receive the 1997 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, the board of trustees recognizes her compelling example in bringing humane assistance and the healing arts to the poorest Filipinos.
Sister Eva Fidela Maamo's acceptance speech at the Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies held in Manila on 31 August 1997.
Official biography of Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, SPC, MD written by Cynthia Nograles-Lumbera. She won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1997.
Official lecture of Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, SPC, MD entitled "Fighting a Deadly Disease Called Poverty." The lecture was presented, in relation to her Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership, at the Ramon Magsaysay Center in Manila on 2…
Program brochures and pamphlets of the Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission giving back its gratefulness to sponsors and donors especially of their educational scholarship project and charity hospital. Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, Ramon Magsaysay…
Photographs of several batches of participants of the Community Health Workers' Training conducted by the Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission, Inc. (FOLPMI) held at Our Lady of Peace Hospital and at St. Joseph's Academy, both in the Philippines,…
Highlights of the Medical-Surgical Outreach Missions dubbed as the 'Missions of Mercy' of the Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission as presented in this commemorative pamphlet for their 10th year anniversary.
An undated article entitled "Our Lady of Peace Mission" written by Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J. for the Philippine Star. In this article, he enumerated a list of individuals behind their charity hospital project. Fr. Reuter also serves as the Chairman…
Citation of Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, SPC, MD as Mother Teresa awardee in 1992. Later on, she also won the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership in 1997.
Official brochure of the Aeta Resettlement and Rehabilitation Center built by the Foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission. Followed by photographs of Sister Eva Fidela Maamo, President and Founder, as well as the residents and volunteers.