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Hawaii Charity Helps Needy Philippines and Hawaii Families

May 15, 2008

from KHNL NBC 8 Honolulu Hawaii

A Hawaii-based charity celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. The Consuelo Foundation helps abused children, women, and families in both Hawaii and the Philippines. To give you an idea of the work they do, we visited a Manila orphanage.

It’s an overwhelming sight. Dozens of babies in the room, all of them disabled. Elsie Gaches Village social worker Helen Lontok described the clients as, "Many of them are severely mentally retarded but most of them have multiple disabilities; some with Down’s Syndrome, some with autism."

Many of them have never, and will never know a mother’s love. They are all orphans. If not for Elsie Gaches Village, Lontok said, "They would be in the streets. They’d die very young and be overcrowded in the hospitals."

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