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A home for abandoned children |
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Universal rights of children are food, shelter and love. Unfortunately lots of children in the Philippines do not have access to basic needs. Home of Hope is a home for abandoned children. Some children have no parents anymore, others have parents who can no longer take care of them due to poverty, addiction or imprisonment.
Every single person who visits Home of Hope, leaves with a knot in the stomach. One feels like moving heaven and earth to improve the situation of children in Home of Hope. One wants to adopt and give love, food and shelter to these beautiful but damaged children. But most of all one will feel helpless. Our chairman Louis did feel helpless but learnt that we can all contribute a little ourselves to improve the situation of children in the Philippines.
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It seems like government policy. The urban slums are thorns in the flesh of the city council. Slums should be fenced like they do in Manila or demolished. The urban poor are relocated to the outskirts of the city, no longer visible and unfortunately far away from income generating opportunities. Many of our ANAK scholars have their home in one of the threatened slum areas in Bacolod, moreover it is the middle of exams...
Next to ANAK's office is an urban slum where many scholars are living. This area has turned into a demolition area. We are passing a long dark corridor and when we enter the are we can only witness the sad remains of a slum that was home to 65 families or more than 400 people, many of them small children.... |
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Chairman of ANAK Netherlands flies off to the Philippines for three months......
I immediately feel at home again in the Philippines. On January the 18th I returned to the Philippines. It was a fairly cool (24 degrees C) and cloudy day. After settling into my favorite hotel in the Mabini area, I immerse myself into the chaos of Manila. A brewed coffee and the Philippine Star on a little terrace............ |
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