INC set to stage Lingap on july 15

After taking its Lingap sa Mamamayan outreach program to Africa, the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is set to stage the latest edition of its global anti-poverty initiative back home at the Quirino Grandstand on July 15.

The activity is expected to draw over 150,000 people in what INC general auditor Glicerio Santos Jr. said is “part of the Church’s resolve to tap its resources and do something concrete to combat poverty here and around the world.”

Santos added that while the INC has conducted the Lingap sa Mamamayan in other parts of the globe, the leadership of the homegrown church — established in the Philippines in 1914 — recognizes that “charity begins at home.”

The Lingap sa Mamamayan program has been one of INC’s most significant programs under the leadership of executive minister Eduardo Manalo, who has been at the helm of the church since 2009.

For the big Lingap activity on July 15, INC has readied ultra-modern laboratory and radiology equipment ready to perform complete blood count, blood sugar determination, blood typing, pregnancy test and urinalysis as well as ultrasound, 2D echo, at 12 liter ECG. All these services are to be given for free.

“We will also offer free consultations in internal medicine, dermatology, pediatrics, obgyne and surgery. Two mini hospitals with two minor operating rooms will be set up at the venue. Canes, wheelchairs and reading glasses would be given at no cost to Lingap attendees on top of maintenance medicines for hypertension, diabetes and cholesterol, antibiotics, medicines for children and multivitamins for people of all ages,” Santos explained.

Lingap sa Mamamayan activities have been organized and staged in the US, Canada, Northern and Southern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and key areas in the Middle East including Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.