Welcome to the KEOFI Website
The Kaibigan Foundation has been helping poor children and their families for more than 25 years in Metro Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Today Kaibigan is sending more than 350 urban poor and street children to school, more than 50 students to college and technical/vocational education, and is also helping to build stronger and healthier communities. Please use the tabs at the top of this page to learn more about Kaibigan, its staff, its programs and its beneficiaries. |
Kaibigan Foundation is proud to announce that the book entitled "Kyopi at ang 4 na Super Heroes sa Paghahanda sa Sakuna", a child conceptualized and illustrated disaster preparedness book for children and youth, is now available at a very affordable price -- Php150.00 each . If interested to get a copy, please contact us. |
KAIBIGAN FOUNDATION'S DISASTER RESPONSE MISSION PSYCHOSOCIAL ACTIVITIES REPORT
Kaibigan Foundation Reaching out to Typhoon Yolanda Survivors
Despite the overwhelming response of various local and international humanitarian organizations as well as that of the government, many people in areas like Estancia, Batad & Carles, Iloilo still needs assistance and relief goods. Food, clothing, potable drinking water, children's school supplies as well as materials for rebuilding their destroyed homes are just some of their pressing needs.
To extend help, Kaibigan's 2 Board Members and 10 staff spent 6 (November 26 - December 1, 2013) days doing psychosocial activities for children & relief goods distribution to help the Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan) survivors at several Barangays of Estancia, Batad and Carles, Iloilo
Despite the overwhelming response of various local and international humanitarian organizations as well as that of the government, many people in areas like Estancia, Batad & Carles, Iloilo still needs assistance and relief goods. Food, clothing, potable drinking water, children's school supplies as well as materials for rebuilding their destroyed homes are just some of their pressing needs.
To extend help, Kaibigan's 2 Board Members and 10 staff spent 6 (November 26 - December 1, 2013) days doing psychosocial activities for children & relief goods distribution to help the Typhoon Yolanda (International Name: Haiyan) survivors at several Barangays of Estancia, Batad and Carles, Iloilo
We would like to thank all our local and international donors/partners who helped make the above Outreach Activity at Estancia and Batad, Iloilo possible.
AKO PARA SA BATA
The Manila Conference 2013
11 Kaibigan Staff Attended "Ako Para sa Bata" from December 2-3, 2013 with the Theme: Responding to Interpersonal Violence, Sexual Assault and Exploitation
The Manila Conference 2013
11 Kaibigan Staff Attended "Ako Para sa Bata" from December 2-3, 2013 with the Theme: Responding to Interpersonal Violence, Sexual Assault and Exploitation
KAIBIGAN FOUNDATION - Building Communities, Building Lives
A 12-minute slide show covering the scope of Kaibigan's current operations, its origins and partnerships, and the many challenges that lie ahead.
How this Calendar was created:
Between 8 July and 9 August 2012, Ms Alma Quinto, a well known artist and a long-time partner of Kaibigan Foundation, held 6 visual arts workshops for 24 Kaibigan kids. Participating students were given the theme "Visualizing Nature to Nurture the Dreams of Young People" and asked to depict plants, flowers, birds, landscapes, fruits and local scenes in their individual styles. The children were categorized into two groups, beginners and advanced (ie, those with some previous training). In all, they produced more than 200 works of art; these will be sold at Kaibigan's "ART FOR A CAUSE" event on 10 November 2012. All proceeds will go towards Kaibigan's work assisting poor but deserving scholars.
2013 Kaibigan Table Calendar (may be used as company give away or gift this Christmas) is now available for those who are interested. Please dial 561-8508 or email us at: [email protected] for inquiries or orders. Kindly take time to share, like or repost this to help us spread the information.
Between 8 July and 9 August 2012, Ms Alma Quinto, a well known artist and a long-time partner of Kaibigan Foundation, held 6 visual arts workshops for 24 Kaibigan kids. Participating students were given the theme "Visualizing Nature to Nurture the Dreams of Young People" and asked to depict plants, flowers, birds, landscapes, fruits and local scenes in their individual styles. The children were categorized into two groups, beginners and advanced (ie, those with some previous training). In all, they produced more than 200 works of art; these will be sold at Kaibigan's "ART FOR A CAUSE" event on 10 November 2012. All proceeds will go towards Kaibigan's work assisting poor but deserving scholars.
2013 Kaibigan Table Calendar (may be used as company give away or gift this Christmas) is now available for those who are interested. Please dial 561-8508 or email us at: [email protected] for inquiries or orders. Kindly take time to share, like or repost this to help us spread the information.
Children's Artworks for Sale!
Be amazed by the children’s artworks as presented in six different categories below. These works of art are up for grabs and are sold in different prices. Please view all the pictures under each category (click on MORE PHOTOS button), then jot down the code of your chosen artwork and let us know by sending us a message on any of the following modes of contact: KEOFI’s phone number, office address, e-mail address and facebook link which will be shown to you as you click on the ORDER NOW button. Actual paintings will be exhibited and sold in the upcoming event: ART FOR A CAUSE to be held on November 10, 2012 at KEOFI HQ. All proceeds will go towards Kaibigan’s work assisting poor but deserving scholars. Hope you could join us in this worthy cause!
Just send the item code of your order. |
Photos from Kaibigan Flood Relief Missions in 2012
Kaibigan is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization – fully registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Social Welfare and Development – entirely devoted to the care and welfare of urban poor and street children in poor areas of Manila. Founded in 1986, Kaibigan has more than two decades of experience in caring for disadvantaged children. Today, Kaibigan, with a staff of 12(half of them social workers) operates from premises in San Andres Bukid under the guidance of its elected Board of Directors. |
Manila Today Despite recent impressive economic growth of over 6 per cent per annum in the Philippines and the mushrooming of new shopping malls and high-rise condominiums, the benefits of development are spread very evenly. Millions of Filipinos remain desperately poor. In the capital city of Metro Manila, hundreds of thousands of families are still forced to live in squatter areas in crowded, festering, unsanitary conditions. Often surviving on much less than the national minimum wage of about two hundred pesos a day, these very poor families – some with as many as ten or more children – find themselves crammed into tiny dwellings in neighborhoods where diseases such as TB, diarrhea, and influenza are rampant. Children in particular suffer greatly malnutrition and ill-health. Out of desperation, many youngsters are forced to work on the streets as peddlers and prostitutes, sometimes as members of criminal syndicates. It is a brutally harsh, uncertain, and bleak life, and their future prospects are grim. |