Partnership with Our Lady of Divine Grace Orphanage
Project Profile
Our Lady of Divine Grace Children’s Foundation is a non-stock, non-profit organization established to provide a second home and parental care for abandoned and/or abused children, and/or neglected and/or orphaned children with ages 0-8 years old. The orphanage is located in the central part of the Philippines, specifically at Simala, Sibonga, Cebu. The Foundation was founded in 2004 and it was officially recognized and duly licensed by the Philippine Government through its Department of Social Work and Development in Feb. 28, 2005 to operate as a Residential Caring Institution. Its mission is to establish a shelter that will provide abandoned and/or abused children with basic food, clothing, parental care, basic education and spiritual guidance. Its major programs are: providing residential care to abandoned and/or abused children; supporting the educational needs of these children; facilitating psychological testing and therapy to children who are victims of abuse; providing medical, dental and dermatological services and responding to the recreational and spiritual needs of these children. Its website is www.cebuchildrensfoundation.org.
Contact info: All inquiries should be directed towards Lisbeth Corpuz, Executive Director. Her mobile number is 0917 3298027; landline number is (032)2319445; email is lizre7@msn.com.
Partnership History
Our Lady of Grace has been an Omprakash Partner since June, 2009.
Needs for Material Resources
The Foundation needs P60,000.00 (US dollars $1,277.00) every month for the following expenses of the orphanage:
Food = 20,000.00 pesos
medicines = 2,000.00 pesos
salaries for the administrator, care givers and other staff of the orphanage = 32,000.00 pesos
school supplies = 2,000.00 pesos
administrative expenses (like communication and transportation expenses, permits and licences, representation expenses) = 4,000.00 pesos.
We also need clothing, books and toys for the children. You can email directly our Executive Director, Lisbeth Corpuz at lizre7@msn.com where to send them because she’s right now in the United States looking for Filipinos and other donors who can help her respond to the needs of these children.
We also need to build a bigger facility for the orphanage because with our present facility we can only accommodate 20 children. We need 3,000,000.00 million pesos ($63,830.00 US dollars) to build a bigger facility. We hope to accommodate 100 children at any given time.
Need for Volunteers
This organization is seeking a wide range of volunteers: doctors, psychotherapists specifically for abused and abandoned children, pre-school teachers (who can teach new songs, games and stories for children), and students who would like to care for children for some months. They have also requested bakers who can teach the children as well as caregivers how to bake cookies, cakes and other food which might help in sustaining the orphanage; people who can teach organic farming to make use of available land in the compound and teach the children and the staff to care for gardens so they can produce their own vegetables.