DIRECTORY OF SOCIAL WELFARE

AGENCIES

GAMBOA, CREZTIL ANN L.

BSSW 1-B
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
WELFARE
(COMMUNITY-BASED)
NAME OF THE AGENCY/INSTITUTION
● CHILDREN’s REHABILITATION CENTER - ILOILO
- 2/F Rizal Multi-purpose Center, LaPaz, Iloilo City
- You may contact : Ms. Lolita Mabayag - Regional Coordinator
- Tel. #: (033) 329-5778

The RRCY is a facility to provide intensive treatment in a residential

setting for the rehabilitation of CICL whose sentences have been
suspended and it serves as a nurturing out-of-home placement for
children in need of rehabilitation.

- Clientele/s : Children, youth, disaster victims and communities

- Programs and Services : Treatment and rehabilitation program, orphan
support services, training program and information and publicity
program
● EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
(ERDA) FOUNDATION, INC.
- ℅ Daughters of Mary Immaculate 257 A. Magsaysay Blvd. Poblacion,
New Washington, Aklan
- You may contact : Ms. Imelda F. Prado - Coordinator
- Tel. #: (036) 264-3505
- CP # : 0905-2525504

Its mission is to improve the quality of life marginalized Filipino children

and youth through education and support programs in partnership with
their families, schools and communities.

- Clientele/s : Children and youth

- Programs and Services : Educational assistance program to pre-school,
elementary, high school and college students.
● ILOG KINDERHOME FOUNDATION, INC.
- Ilog Baptist Church, MH Del Pilar St., Brgy. II, Ilog, Negros Occidental.
- You may contact : Mrs. Gilda Cadagat - Executive Director
- Tel. #: (034) 471-2644
- Email add : ikfi_iilog1980@yahoo.com

Its purposes among others are, “Children are holistically developed whose rights
are recognized, promoted and protected, continue to instill Christian values and
empower communities to be responsible in sustaining the quality of life of children
and young people, ensure protection and welfare of the children, continuously
improve the organizational capacity to be able to respond to the changes of the
external environment.”

- Clientele/s : Children victims abuse, less privileged families and communities

Programs and Services : Health and nutrition service, educational, livelihood,

community outreach and special project/community housing, family planning and
reproductive health.
● LAURA VICUNA FOUNDATION INC.
- Hacienda Malihao, Brgy. 20, Victorias City, Negros Occidentral
- You may contact : Sr. Marilou Villanueva - Project Director
- Tel. #: 0916-7812326

It is a dynamic Christian and self-sustaining social welfare organization committed

to effectively transform children to their fullest potential, deeply rooted in life and
spiritual values, empowering them to become honest, highly motivated,
productive and self-reliant and contributing members of the family, community
and society.

- Clientele/s : 7-18 years old working female and male minors who unschooled or
who have not completed compulsory elementary education and also the family
workers like young.
- Programs and Services : Community center for working Minors-provision of
health, nutrition, cultural. Spiritual, vocational and technical skills training of the
minors are provided. Parents and children are trained to become grassroot
advocates against child labor and other forms of child abuse.
● SHARE AN OPPORTUNITY, INC.
- 3rd floor LIZ Complex Building, Bolong Oeste, Sta. Barbara
- You may contact : Mr. Rogelin C.Claveraz - Area Coordinator
- Tel. # : (033) 529-8793

This job is responsible in setting up, maintaining, and coordinating all

clerical bookkeeping and other support functions for the effective
implementation of all administrative and fiscal policies of SAO Philippines

- Clientele/s : 59 years old poor orphans, children of families with no

regular source of income, handicapped children and slow learners as well
parents and community.
- Programs and Services : Sponsorship/Child Development Program and
Micro-finance
● SIGNPOST INTERNATIONAL INC.
- SII Compound, Holy Family Subdivision Zone 8, Calumpang, Molo, Iloilo City
- You may contact : Ms. Febie Ibojos - Country Director
- Tel. # : (336)-0344

Enable people to move around their neighborhood more safely, it increased

access for disabled people and enabled local businesses to to operate, bring
more income into the area. The child sponsorship programme has allowed
many families to continue to send their children to school.

Clientele/s : Disadvantaged children/youth, families and communities

- Programs and Services : Education, psychosocial care, medical

hospitalization, spiritual enhancement/value formation, livelihood (provision
of seed capital), infrastructure projects and advocacy activities.
● UYGONGCO FOUNDATION, INC.
- Amigo Terrace Hotel and Mall Corporation Delgado and Iznarts sSts.
Brgy. Danao, Iloilo City
- You may contact : Ms. Pia Paz Gan - Uygongco Executive Director
- Tel. # : (033) 336-4305

Its purposes are “To develop host communities of La Filipina Uy Gongco

group of Companies that are empowered, productive and self-sustaining
through education, to serve as the catalyst, provide opportunities, instill
values for learning and build good citizenship in the host communities nd
access to education, motivation to stay in school, improve quality of
educational facilities and teaching”.

Clientele/s : Children (elementary and high school students), families and

communities

- Programs and Services : Feeding program, trainings/capability building,

educational assistance and improvement of schools.
● WORLD VISION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, INC.
- 2nd Floor Arguelles Building E Lopez St., Jaro Iloilo City
- You may contact : Mr. Rolly Solidum - Program Manager
- Tel. # : (033) 329-2350
- Email add : rolly_sclidum@wvi.org

Its program and geographical coverage expanded nationwide to provide

assistance to the prisoners, children caught in the conflict in Mindanao and
community-based programs through its Provincial Development Approach.

Clientele/s : Disadvantaged children and their families

- Programs and Services : ECCD, child sponsorship and spiritual development,

family life enrichment community, medical and dental services to sponsored
children, emergency assistance programs and home repair/housing
assistance and livelihood projects.
FAMILIES AND
COMMUNITIES
● ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY (ADRA)
FOUNDATION
- West Visayan Conference of SDA corporation Jalandoni and Ledesma
Sts. 5000 Iloilo City
- You may contact : Pastor Alex Fernandez - Director
- Tel. # : (033) 337-1170
- Fax # : (033) 336-3760

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International is a humanitarian

agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of
providing individual and community development and disaster relief.

Clientele/s : Disadvantaged children and their families

- Programs and Services : ECCD, child sponsorship and spiritual development,

family life enrichment community, medical and dental services to sponsored
children, emergency assistance programs and home repair/housing
assistance and livelihood projects.
● HILI-USA PARENT ASSOCIATION (HUPA), INC.
- Corner Arroyo-Sta. Monica Street, Purok 3 San Joaquin, Iloilo
- You may contact : Ms. Jennifer P. Imbang - Program Manager
- Tel. # : (033) 341-7323
- CP # : (0915) 438-0968

A child-focused, non-stock, non-profit and non-government organizations

aims to protect and empower children and their communities in the most
marginalized situations in the Philippines.

Clientele/s : Children, youth, women, families and communities

- Programs and Services : Medical/health services, nutrition program to

children, educational assistance program, livelihood program and disaster
management.
● INTERNATIONAL CARE MINISTRY PHILIPPINES, INC.
- No. 4 San Juan Street, Brgy. 10, 6100 Bacolod City
- You may contact : Mr. Pakito Yeneza Chief Executive Officer
- Tel. # : (034) 708-2363/432-2606

It permeates every area of children’s lives such as food, shelter, relationships,

hygiene, educations, emotions, financial stability and ICM’S holistic approach
offers solutions that reach children in all of these areas.

Clientele/s : Children, youth, families and communities

- Programs and Services : 10 months preschool program with daily meals,

care medical clinics with free services and medicines provided (open to the
poor, 5 days a week), feeding program to malnourished children livelihood
program
OLDER PERSONS
● ASILO DE MOLO HOME FOR THE AGED.
- (Asilo de Sta. Luisa de Marillac/St. Vincent de Paul Home for the Aged)
Avcena Street, Molo, Iloilo City. P.O Box 103, 5000 Iloilo City
- You may contact : Sr. Magdalena Erasmo - D. C. Administrator

The community-based programs aim to provide services to persons living in

poverty in Molo, Iloilo and San Joaquin and it covers services for older
persons staying with their impoverished families/relatives, indigent children
and youth, unemployed women, migrants and families and persons-in-crisis
situations.

Clientele/s : Elderly persons (65 years old and above)

Programs and Services : Homelife, social, socio-cultural, spiritual and health

services (physical/occupational therapy)
● ST. VINCENT’S HOME, INC. BACOLOD CITY
- Brgy. Tangub, Bacolod City
- You may contact : Sr. Suzanne Advincula - Administrator
- Tel # : (034) 314-7323

St. Vincent’s Home, Inc. is a licensed Social Welfare Institution established on

september 19, 1960 to provide temporary shelter for neglected and
abandoned elderlies called St. Vincent’s Home for the Aged Ladies of Charity
(Damas de la Caridad). Since June 19, 1973, St. Vincent’s Home’s services
have been administered by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Clientele/s : Elderly 65 years old and above, as well as the families, women
and children

Programs and Services : Residential care and Community based services

 ABOUT DSWD
● ON JUNE 2, 1978 THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE
AND DEVELOPMENT (DSWD) WAS RENAMED MINISTRY OF
SOCIAL SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT (MSSD) IN LINE
WITH THE CHANGE IN THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
WHILE IN 1987, THE MSSD WAS RECOGNIZED AND
RENAMED THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND
DEVELOPMENT (DSWD) THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE
ORDER 123, WHICH WAS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT CORAZON
C. AQUINO.
 VISION
● THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND
DEVELOPMENT ENVISIONS ALL FILIPINOS FREE FROM
HUNGER AND POVERTY, HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO
OPPORTUNITIES, ENABLES BY A FAIR, JUST AND
PEACEFUL SOCIETY.

MISSION

● TO LEAD IN THE FORMULATION, IMPLEMENTATION,

AND COORDINATION OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND
DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS FOR AND
WITH THE POOR, VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGE.
 CORE VALUES
● INTEGRITY
● RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
● SERVICE EXCELLENCE
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
 PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
● SOCIAL PENSION PROGRAM

● SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD PROGRAM

● PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

● KALAHI-CIDSS (KAPIT-BISIG LABAN SA KAHIRAPAN- COMPREHENSIVE

AND
INTEGRATED DELIVERY OF SOCIAL SERVICES

● LISTAHAN (NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD TARGETING SYSTEM FOR POVERTY

REDUCTION)

● SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING PROGRAM

● MINORS TRAVELLING ABROAD

● DOMESTIC ADOPTION

● ALTERNATIVE FAMILY CARE PROGRAM