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Program

Our services are focused on home life, health, medical, dental care, nutrition, education, livelihood, psychosocial and personal formation.

Provide a compassionate, safe, and nurturing home environment where children are nurtured and formed into valuable members of the community. The children receiving our services range from newborn infants to the age of 13.

The children’s home is dedicated to providing quality facilities and personnel, who are committed to implementing hope-giving programs for the orphaned, abandoned, neglected, and vulnerable children through holistic formation to prepare them to become valuable members of society.

The Project and Program

St. Dominic Children’s Home is a 14,500-square-foot, two-story building with two wings. It has one central kitchen and dining room. Five dormitory rooms on the girls’ side and five dormitory rooms on the boy’s side and each have separate showers and bathrooms; and one large room for infants. In addition a library, chapel, and play yard. It is run by a well-trained staff managed by the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of the Philippines under the direction of Mother MA. Nemia Daral, OP.

Depending on the need it can be converted into a house:

  • 5-10 Infants
  • 10-15 Toddlers
  • 25 youth of elementary to High School age
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Objectives

  • Raise funding to support the children entering St. Dominic Children’s Home (initial 50 children – 2023-24) for the:
  • Provision of a quality warm home staffed with personnel who are committed to the initial care of orphaned, abandoned, neglected, vulnerable foundling, surrendered infants and children, preparing them for adoption, reformation and re-integration into families and society.
  • Provide the children with well-balanced and organized activities to meet their physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual needs for them to experience a wholesome family in an atmosphere of love and service
  • Help children and their social functioning especially in their interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills upon admission
  • Provide health for those who need medical assessment and treatment in hospitals including children with special needs through consultation and referral to mental health professionals for their psychological, emotional, and psychosocial needs. Many of the children have never seen a physician or dentist which requires a fee for service.
  • To equip parents and family caregivers with the appropriate care and classes to develop violence-free homes, schools, and community centers
  • Access to basic and essential healthcare needs to improve the children’s quality of life. Many of the children have never seen a physician or dentist which requires a fee for service.

Who we serve

  • Abandon children refer to children who have no proper parental care or guardianship or whose parents have deserted them for a period of at least three continuous months.
  • Foundlings refer to a deserted or abandon infant or child; a child committed to the department of social welfare department or Dooley license institution with unknown facts or birth and parentage
  • Neglected children are those whose parents or caregivers failed to provide needed food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education, or supervision to the degree that their health, safety, and well-being or threatened with harm
  • Orphans are children whose parents have died, or unknown, or have permanently abandoned them.
  • Surrendered infants are those relinquished by the parent on account of physical, emotional, and social factors beyond their control.
  • Vulnerable children are those living in a chaotic or dysfunctional household (including parental substance abuse violence, parental mental health issues, or parental criminality.)
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About our Organization

Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines is seeking funds to provide a compassionate, safe and nurturing home environment where children are nurtured and formed into valuable members of the community by providing quality facilities and personnel who are committed to giving hope-giving programs for the orphaned, abandoned, neglected, vulnerable foundling, surrendered infants, and children through holistic formation, social-work interventions and services in order to prepare them for adoption, reformation and re-integration into families and society.

The relevance of the new facility, called St. Dominic Children’s Home, is to respond to the need for an orphanage in Western Visayas, a region composed of six provinces with 16 component cities. This region has a limited number of institutions, particularly in Iloilo City itself.

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