Day in and day out, our Woodrose auxiliary staff perform their duties for Woodrose students and faculty – they greet them as they enter through the gates, clean the classrooms, feed them in the canteen, keep the chapel neat, trim the garden, maintain audio-video equipment, move around heavy items to and from buildings, among other daily tasks. They may do their work quietly in the sidelines, but our auxiliaries are our unsung campus heroes.
On the morning of April 5th, 2025, it was the parents’ turn to serve our auxiliaries. More than 200 participants from the Woodrose auxiliary staff and their families were provided with free medical and dental services conducted by Woodrose parents from Batch 2030 and 2025 at the Woodrose gym. Parents manned the registration tables, conducted triage services, and operated the pharmacy. Students led them to the doctor stations and served as their “customer care officers.”
The team of volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, and parents provided services ranging from lab tests conducted prior to the event via Alviar Laboratory services, dental check-up including free dental kits from Unilever, eye examinations with free reading glasses from Sarabia Optical; as well as provision of vitamins, supplements, prescription medications and hygiene products from companies such as Unilab, Generika, and UL Skin Sciences. Generika offered vouchers while Ayala Healthway gave wellness cards. Free snacks were provided by Rebisco, free lunch packs were given by Jollibee & Barrio Fiesta, and Unilever gave additional loot bags. University of Perpetual Help Medical School fielded residents and interns. Land Registration Systems offered a nurse, medicines, and transportation. Alcohol bottles were donated by Green Cross and Kohl Industries.
Many of the volunteer doctors were Woodrose parents and alumnae. Seeing the grateful and smiling faces of the auxiliaries was the day’s reward for our volunteers. An alumna doctor from Batch 2015 said, “One of my patients was from the canteen staff! She may not remember me, but I told her that I remembered her. Now that I’m a doctor, it’s my turn to help her.” Truly, it was a blessed day not just for auxiliaries but for the volunteers too.