Dr. Roel Cagape is a physician from Barangay Lagay, General Santos City, who won the Bayaning Pilipino Award. He received this award for his service to countrymen in rural areas in GenSan and the hinterlands of neighboring Sarangani province. Not only did he give free medication daily, he also conducted medical missions in mountainous regions far away weekly. He also started a project teaching people the community of the use of horses to transport patients during emergency situations. This project is called “Ambulansyang Kabayo”.
If you check his blog, you can see his journeys to the mountain helping people and his experiences. Here is the site:
http://73ib.blogspot.com/2011/06/dlumay-dream-come-true-by-dr-roel-z.html
In our opinion, an ideal hero is one that thinks of the country’s welfare first and one that isn’t selfish. Basically a man for others. Dr. Roel Cagape truly meets the standards of the ideal hero due to his services done to the countless Filipinos he helped asking for nothing in return. Simply a man for others.
You would think people like him aren't important to the society, but without people like him, who will help the people in the mountainous regions? Who would give free medical services to those who need it? We should be thankful for people like Dr. Roel Cagape. He is truly one of the modern heroes we have here in the Philippines.
If you check his blog, you can see his journeys to the mountain helping people and his experiences. Here is the site:
http://73ib.blogspot.com/2011/06/dlumay-dream-come-true-by-dr-roel-z.html
In our opinion, an ideal hero is one that thinks of the country’s welfare first and one that isn’t selfish. Basically a man for others. Dr. Roel Cagape truly meets the standards of the ideal hero due to his services done to the countless Filipinos he helped asking for nothing in return. Simply a man for others.
You would think people like him aren't important to the society, but without people like him, who will help the people in the mountainous regions? Who would give free medical services to those who need it? We should be thankful for people like Dr. Roel Cagape. He is truly one of the modern heroes we have here in the Philippines.