LAKAD PDX
Lakad is the Tagalog word for walk or move. LAKAD PDX is an organization
that engages the community to take on movement activities for a cause. In the past, proceeds have supported the building of water systems for indigenous people of Mindanao (Lumad), building community clinics in the Philippines and in Oregon, as well as supporting relief, rehabilitation, and livelihood projects in the Philippines.
LAKAD IS THE TAGALOG WORD FOR WALK OR MOVE.
On August 26, 2023 we are hosting Lakad for Kalusugan to raise $75,000 for health related projects and initiatives in the Philippines that would provide relief and rehabilitation to communities impacted by typhoons and volcano eruptions and to support the Filipino Bayanihan Center’s Health Programs in Portland, OR.
We present an opportunity to take steps in supporting health workers and health and wellness of the Filipino people. We aim to create a pathway for these first steps to transform into a continuous movement.
All proceeds from our race will go to the Filipino Bayanihan Center, a migrant service center that aims to connect community members to essential resources, while building capacity to engage with the issues we face as a community towards change, the Foundation for Philippine Progress, an organization dedicated to empower and engage communities in programs and projects for the Philippines to secure quality health, education, and basic human rights for every Filipino, and the Philippine Nurses Association of Oregon and Washington, an organization that engages in charitable activities that will promote unity among Filipino American Nurses in Oregon and Washington. They partner to build an organization of united nurses to promote outreach programs