Hospicio de San José is a Roman Catholic welfare establishment in the City of Manila, the

Philippines. It is the primary social welfare office in the nation, and as a child care foundation
has been a home for vagrants, the relinquished, person with special needs, and the old.

Hospicio de San José is situated on Isla de Convalecencia (Spanish, "Island of strengthening"),

an eyot amidst the Pasig Waterway, and must be gotten to through Ayala Extension. It was in
the past situated in the Pandacan area. From that point, it was exchanged to Intramuros,
Binondo, Nagtahan, and Echague. In 1810, the Hospicio was forever moved to Isla de
Convalecencia.

At first named the Hospicio (General Hospice), Hospicio de San José was built up amid the
Spanish Time in October 1778 by Wear Francisco Gómez Enríquez and his better half Doña
Barbara Verzosa. In the wake of being restored of a fever, Wear Gómez Enríquez gave the
whole of ₱ 4,000 to establish the hospice that would deal with Manila's "poor and undesirable
kids", the physically and rationally incapacitated, and maturing individuals. The activity and case
of Wear Gómez Enríquez was trailed by other magnanimous individuals of Manila.

From 27 December 1810 and by Regal Pronouncement, the hospice was administered by a
Directorate led by the Diocese supervisor of Manila. On 1 June 1866, through the
recommendation to the Senator General of the Philippines by a promoter named Doña
Margarita Róxas, the task of the hospice turned into the duty of the Girls of Philanthropy of St.
Vincent de Paul.

The hospice gives an effort program and a Christian, social and work-situated development
program. It is focused on helping deserted individuals to encounter quality existence with the
point of making them "specialists of social change".

Hospicio de San Jose has two recorded markers. The first, in English, was from the Chronicled
Exploration and Markers Board of trustees and was divulged on October 17, 1939. In 1977, a
second authentic marker was given from the National Recorded Organization and is in Tagalog.