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A Nonprofit 501c3 Corporation

 

Medical Awareness Institute

P.O. Box 152005
San Diego, Ca
92195

 

 

The Medical Awareness Institute (MAI) investigates established practices and seeks new ways for limiting their detrimental effect upon our citizens. Implementation of more effective treatments will replace the current policies that have failed to curtail the expansion of illness and diseases rampant throughout our societies.

Various photos of our:
Sponsors
Staff Members
Tsunami Programs
Fire Storm Programs
Medical Studies Programs
Hurricane Katrina Programs
False Accusations Programs

 

Training and Job Placement

The Medical Awareness Institute creates jobs within each ethnic community for publication and distribution of pro-active preventative healthcare information promoting healthier lifestyles. This new and innovative approach is reducing the health disparities suffered throughout our culturally diverse communities.

 

Healthcare Solutions
MAI's partnerships and programs lower healthcare costs and reduce employee sick leave hours lost.

 

Immediate Response Capabilities
MAI goes beyond physical wellbeing in its programs, providing professional crisis and grief counseling, at no charge, in times of tragedies, such as the devastating fires that ravaged huge areas of Southern California in 2003, with the resulting loss of lives and jobs.

 

MAI Partnerships
The Medical Awareness Institute (MAI), collaborates with other organizations for the training and employment of our culturally diverse citizens in the healthcare industry.

 

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Willie Nelson & Bio-Diesel

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The Medical Awareness Institute (MAI) was the vision of Cato Cedillo. His intent was to ally with his prominent supporters, develop meaningful programs that address the high rates of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other illnesses, throughout our many diverse communities.

Since his passing MAI continues his mission as well as supporting programs he would have helped also. Below are just a few photos of Cato and his friends.

   

Above left: Cato supporting Santee Lakes Handicap Fishing Pier project. Above right: Supervisor Ron Roberts presents Cato a $5000 check for Olympicos (below).

     

Cato Supporting The La Mesa Junior Seau Sports Center (left) and Cato, Ken Joseph supporting Tony Gwynn's Foundation (right).

July 21, 2004

SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

His rise from poverty to prominence in his native West Texas left Cato Cedillo with a profound compassion for helping others and personified the American dream.

When he moved to the San Diego area in 1979 after serving unopposed for ten years on the San Angelo City Council, he helped found the Olympicos Soccer Club for youths – most of them from disadvantaged families.

His message – "No drugs, no alcohol, stay in school" – became became the club's motto.

Mixing community service and public service, Mr. Cedillo joined the staff in 1981 of then-freshman U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon.

For the next 23 years, most of them as Hunter's deputy chief of staff in the 52nd District, Mr. Cedillo took on such responsibilities as working with American Indian tribes, small businesses and the military.

The cause of death was complications from stomach surgery, said Joe Browning, senior field liaison for Congressman Hunter.

"Cato was a good friend and a truly great American," said Hunter, who had spent Monday by his bedside. "He was a giant among men and will be sorely missed."

 Mr. Cedillo, the son of a struggling carpenter in San Angelo, got his first job at age 9 shagging golf balls near San Angelo Country Club.

During his freshman year in high school, he broke his leg sliding into second base in a varsity baseball game. He left school after the injury and worked for a grocery store in San Angelo to help support his family.

Eventually, he bought the store.

Mr. Cedillo showed similar upward mobility in the golf industry. After working as a greens keeper at San Angelo Country Club, he designed Riverside Golf Course, an 18-hole public layout in San Angelo.

Beginning in 1973, he served four years on the San Angelo City Council. During that time, he worked with youths in the San Angelo Boys Club and founded tutoring, cycling and basketball programs.

His dedication to youths in San Angelo resulted in the naming of a gym in his honor.

During his term as a city commissioner, as council members in San Angelo are called, Mr. Cedillo championed such improvements as paving city streets. He was credited with spearheading the paving of 27 miles of streets.

"I walked through mud to get to school when I was young, so I knew what those kids were going through," he told the San Antonio Standard Times in December 1999.

After moving to California and settling in Chula Vista, Mr. Cedillo worked in landscaping. When Hunter met Cedillo and found out about his community service and political background, he offered him a job.

"Cato had the biggest heart of gold of anyone I've ever known," said Wendell Cutting, Hunter's chief of staff. "His heart was always open to anyone. In San Angelo, he and his wife, Pilina, would take money out of their own pockets to buy lunch for elementary school kids."

Mr. Cedillo was president of the Olympicos Soccer Club, which has also engaged with soccer teams from Mexico. "There have been thousands of kids go through this program," Cutting said

Survivors include Mr. Cedillo's wife, Pilina; a daughter, Sandra Joseph of Chula Vista; his mother, Eulojia Cedillo of San Angelo; sisters, Emma Montelongo and Gloria Rios, both of San Angelo; brothers, Gilbert and Tony Cedillo, both of San Angelo; a grandson and three step-grandsons.

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