BK 18: Gentle Hands Child Care Center Community Relations [Image 6 of 13]

QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES

05.13.2018

Photo by Sgt. Dahnyce Baucom 

III Marine Expeditionary Force   

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Richi Saldivar, native of Alexandria, Virginia, with Alpha Company, 7th Communications Battalion, 3rd Marine Information Group, holds a baby girl from the Gentle Hands Child Care Center, Quezon City, Philippines. Gentle Hands is a child and youth welfare agency that provide rescue and rehabilitation for medical, social, psychological, and educational needs of at-risk children and youth, and advocating for the rights of the children. Philippine, U.S., Australian, and Japanese service members spent Mother’s Day volunteering at the center as part of a community relations effort in the Philippines during exercise Balikatan May 13, 2018. Exercise Balikatan, in its 34th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military training focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counterterrorism, and other combined military operations held from May 7 to May 18. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Dahnyce Baucom)

• Date Taken: 05.13.2018
• Date Posted: 05.14.2018 06:32
• Photo ID: 4383486
• VIRIN: 180513-A-FB001-0001
• Resolution: 4082x2916
• Size: 718.62 KB
• Location: QUEZON CITY, PH