Jan 16, 2017
Dr. Ramon Resa
Six Way Meeting at LSF Country Club (In Lieu of Club Meeting on January 19)

The speaker, Dr. Ramon Resa is the subject of the documentary explained below:

RAMON RISING© is the documentary being produced now about an abandoned boy, Ramon Resa, who against all odds became a pediatrician.Ramon was taken in by a farm working couple and raised as one of 15 children in their household living in severe poverty, neglect and abuse in Central Valley, California. From early childhood on, Ramon was hired out to perform back-breaking farm labor.

One of Ramon’s grade school teachers told him that he didn’t have to be a farmworker for the rest of his life. She encouraged him to get a college education explaining that with a degree Ramon could choose any career he wanted. Upon hearing her words, hope for a better future was birthed in Ramon’s heart and he set his sights on making it to college. His pilgrimage out of the hot, dusty fields to becoming a pediatrician was filled with tremendous adversity. He faced racial discrimination by school officials and students as well as fierce opposition from his guardians who forbade him to go to college, insisting he get a job after high school and help support them.

Dr. Resa made it through college and medical school, received his license to practice medicine and went directly back to the Central Valley to practice pediatrics. For over 30 years he’s provided care for kids like he once was. Dr. Resa is living proof to his young patients that they too can make a better future for themselves. Audiences of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds will come away from watching RAMON RISING celebrating the power of the indomitable human spirit to overcome all obstacles in the way of finding a better life. They will likely join many who hear Dr. Resa’s story in thinking, “If he can overcome all the issues and problems in his life to become a doctor, I can overcome mine too!”