How does the Philippine Childrens Foundation decide of which Children are helped?
Specifically we help children in areas where our directors have active collaborations with missionaries and churches that can actively conduct the outreach assistance programs. We target children whose parents are very poor and who struggle to find support for themselves; most times they are living in rural areas or slums. The mothers and fathers have a hard time getting jobs and are often uneducated. The parents are struggling to feed their children and send them to school. They struggle to pay for school transportation, school supplies, and school lunch. If their child is attending a school it is often common for theses children to leave school because they don’t have any money for lunch or even a snack. Some of children are not attending school because the parents never obtained a required birth certificate for the child because they thought it would not be needed or because they waited till the child was older and a fee was imposed which they could not afford to pay. Often children