In one of our poverty-stricken mission areas of the San Pablo Apostol Parish called “Happyland,” we have known about 50 children ages 6 to 12 years old swimming almost every day collecting plastic waste on the polluted and dirty waters of Manila Bay port-area just to earn a meager amount of PHP 30.00 to provide for their families. At most, …
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Religious Community Story
Every year in August, we, the Canossian Sons of Charity in the Formation House, gather together as one family to start our planning for a formative Journey. This formative year (2020-2021) started with a three-day planning session in the presence of our Community Superior, Fr. Mateo Suarez, our formator, FdCC, Fr. Ralph Jayson Santos, FdCC, and the five Religious Brothers. On …
Keep Contributing Us, We will
The Bakhita Canossa Foundation -Philanthropic Development Office (BCFI -PDO) Advocacy on Youth Development (Scholarship Program) wants to increase the opportunities of a better life with empowered and nurtured children and youth through proper and quality education. The youth who are the backbone of the nation, the now of the nation, and the future pillars of the country (comprising 30M in …
change the world
Our goal is to be able to develop an ecosystem of donors supporting common advocacy on a regular basis, thus, developing an annual fund campaign towards ultimate sustainability. The Giving Circle is designed to ignite donors to have an avenue to give according to their matched advocacy. The focused advocacies supported in this giving circle include: Advocacy on Religious Vocation …
TAAL Eruption Relief Giving
It was in this year 2020 that turn the world into silence. Every being’s movement has changed; the beliefs and even the long-term priorities that each of us wants to aim for have changed within a fraction of time. Our lives focus more on our survival and the safety of ourselves and our family members. On January 12, 2020, the …
TYPHOON AMBO hits Jipapad Eastern Samar
Charity seeks not its own (1 Cor. 13:5). The author of the gospel of Matthew would put it this way “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” (Mt. 25:45). That is why when we do charity we do not do it for our own gain; we do charity …
WE ARE ONE in this pandemic
One of the advocacies of the Bakhita Canossa Foundation is to have a program in which it can reach those affected by various calamities and disasters, especially in this time of global pandemic of the Novel Corona virus-19. With the Canossian Vocation team’s help, we reached out to 1,030 families, including our brothers and sisters, who are living on the …
Computer Laboratory for the Scholars in Marikina
School opening will not necessarily mean traditional face-to-face learning in the classroom. The physical opening will depend on the risk severity grading or classification of a certain community pursuant to guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH), the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Philippines, and the Office of the President (OP). The …