Updates

Siblings April Zaira and Francis Aziel seem to enjoy writing to their sponsors. At the back is grandma assisting Princess Liarha in writing.

June 2019 Update

In their attempt to shorten text messages on mobile phones, the children have transformed it into a unique language that produces new words and phrases by intentionally threading together misspelled words without syntax and abundantly pinching them with punctuation marks, thus making words longer than the originals. For example, instead of spelling “hello”, most of them spell it as “Eowwwh”.

Boxes of biscuits donation

December 2018 Update

Our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, once said, THE YOUTH IS THE HOPE OF OUR COUNTRY. If we look at how Pag-asa children perform in the first semester of the school year, then I guess yes, there is hope. They have once again shown exemplary performance in specific areas of their school life.

Rotary Club Papenburg helps Pag-asa Social Center

Papenburger Rotarier helfen weiter auf Philippinen

Papenburg. Der Rotary Club (RC) Papenburg setzt seine UnterstĂŒtzung fĂŒr ein Hilfsprojekt auf den Philippinen fort. Einen Scheck in Höhe von 7600 Euro ĂŒberreichten die Rotarier jetzt an Frank Schmelzer vom Pag-asa Social Center in der Stadt Tagatay. Das Sozialprojekt fĂŒr Kinder aus bedĂŒrftigen Familien lĂ€uft seit 20 Jahren.

September 2018 Update

We would like to welcome first the new sponsors of Pag-asa, including a group from the New Families of the Netherlands. In order to support additional children, they organized a lunch concert. During the concert, six Gen 4 showed up in the hall carrying with them canvas pictures of 6 of our applicant children, and within just a minute, all 6 children each found a sponsor.

Daniele with the kids of Pag-asa

A Social Work Volunteer’s Experience

After two years, his dream of spending time serving in a remote and poor area became a reality. In fact, in January 2012 he moved to Tagaytay, a small city to the south of Manila in the Philippines. There he came in contact with a Social Center that tries to help the poorest people.