The above picture is a group picture of the late Sr. Celelia Vileagas (R.I.P) Resident Directress of the Holy Child Orphanage, the children of the then Holy Child Orphanage and myself. At the time I was the International Fundraising Manager in the Holy Child Orphanage. In August 2007 the Holy Child Orphanage closed and the children were turned over to the Department of Social welfare and development (DSWD). Later that year in September, myself and Mr. Mark Congdon an Irish Businessman and Philanthropists together with a small team of former Holy Child Orphanage employees founded the HGC Orphanage on the same site that the Holy Child Orphanage stood. In late September the DSWD turned over the care of the children of the Holy Child Orphanage to the HGC Orphanage, i.e. returning the children to what they considered their home.
The main goal of the HGC Orphanage was to try and reunite the children with distant relatives with the aim of where appropriate building their family relations and possibly fostering or adoption of the children by the family. Formal sponsorship programs where established to help the adoptive families with the added costs of an extra child or in some cases (siblings) children.
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