Save the Children has worked for underserved children in the Philippines for 26 years. From its initial program in West Visayas, which began in 1982, the Philippines Country Office has expanded and now implements child-focused education, health and emergency preparedness and response programs in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, the archipelago’s three major island groups. Save the Children has a special focus of helping children made vulnerable by endemic poverty, natural disasters or by armed conflict. Programs are marked by the active involvement of families and communities, so that progress made for children can be sustained.
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In its early years in the Philippines, World Vision helped three orphanages in South Cotabato, Iloilo and Davao City. Childcare projects were implemented in orphanages and day care centers in 1957.
Inspired by Bob’s work in the transformation of children, World Vision Philippines expanded to different provinces in the country and gradually evolved from
providing the most basic needs of children to addressing the root causes of poverty in their communities.
In the early 1980’s, World Vision shifted its thrust from providing social service to community-based development. It has developed Area Development Programs (PDA) as community based approach to the transformational development of children and their families where staffs lived with a family within the assisted community.
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