The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region 3 (Central Luzon) through the Provincial Science and Technology Center in Bulacan, in partnership with Good Neighbors International Philippines, granted a Disaster Preparedness Kit in Barangay Tibaguin, Hagonoy, Bulacan last June 22, 2021.
Becoming a channel of God to help other people is one of the callings of a humanitarian worker of Good Neighbors working in the field of Prieto Diaz Community Development Project.
She is Maidy May Duran, an Income Generation, Energy and Environment, and DRR Staff-In-Charge. She also grew up as a sponsored child in an international NGO. This gave her an idea of what humanitarian organizations do and how dedicated the humanitarians are to delivering programs and services to their sponsored children.
Good Neighbors International Philippines (GNIP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently sealed its partnership for a project dubbed Inclusive Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction. This project is pivoted to address the needs of vulnerable children, including children with disabilities and indigenous children, and capacitate them on disaster response and preparedness.
Join Good Neighbors International Philippines (GNIP) Laak Field Office on the Webinar on Psycho-Social Support/Psychological First Aid (PSS/PFA) for Teachers in joint partnership with the Department of Education – Division of Davao de Oro. This webinar aims to equip the teachers with the necessary skills to cope and manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and as they deliver responses in the communities and children.
GUD LIFE aims to:
- Improved access to and capacity to maintain a potable water source.
- Cultivating their backyard garden using Hydroponics and use the product as a food source and alternative source of income; and
- Sitio Bakal is organized and capacitated to sustain its sources of food and income.
GNIP has spearheaded the initiatives on urban gardening projects using hydroponics technology during the pandemic that has benefited 12 families in different ways.
When the pandemic swept the Philippines last year, Sitio Bakal underwent restrictive community quarantines which led to a surge in the unemployment rate within the community. Food shortage and income loss are among the major problems causing anxiety to the families apart from the ongoing health emergency.
Good Neighbors International Philippines (GNIP) was recognized in the 4th Gawad Samabaralan (Sama na sa Pambayang Kaunlaran) of the Bulacan State Univerisity. This award acknowledges the steadfast commitment and compassion of the GNIP Bulacan Field Office in providing services to communities despite the challenges brought about COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters.
Eleine Reyes is a 19-year-old resident from Pugad Tibaguin CDP and a former sponsored child and child rights club president of Good Neighbors International Philippines. She is being raised in a family that everything is enough to survive and support their daily needs. Her father is a fisherman and her mother is a housewife.
Krisselle Atienza, 31, was 8 together with her brother when they started selling dried fish to their community in Hagonoy, Bulacan. She worked hard to earn income for her family. Supporting her parents and three siblings compelled her to stop schooling and find jobs.
Her father is a hardworking fisherman. This serves as their source of income and was able to sustain their daily needs. Her father always did his very best to support the family.
Strengthening Child Protection System in the barangays is one of the steps towards developing and contributing to their full potential. Barangays of the communities are the first ones that a child connects with, besides their family. Thus, it plays a vital role in the empowerment and fulfillment of children’s rights.
Her dream is to become a successful chef. And given the opportunity to make her dream into reality, she will also be able to fulfill her dream of providing a comfortable life for her family which is one of the major reasons why she is pursuing to finish her education while working.
We, ask her, what can she do to help end child labor, and here are her thoughts:
I think child labor is a social crime that transpires to many places, either publicly or worst secretly, and innocent children are racked with pain and agony.