Island Kids Philippines

Programs and Projects

Island Kids Philippines and the Philippine Island Kids Int’l. Foundation, Inc. are offering a variety of social welfare programs and services within the range of transformational community development, child protection, education, and humanitarian aid. We are working in close partnership with the local government, the Department of Education (DepEd), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), and with other local and international NGO’s. Our social welfare programs and services are conducted in a sustainable manner, aiming to empower children and their families to transform the environment they are living in. Our programs aim to holistically enhance the capabilities of least fortunate children and youths as well as their families. At the center of our activities are always the people. Together, we search for holistic solutions to the complex problems and challenges they face in their daily lives. Through temporary shelter and protection, community organizing, psychosocial support such as counseling, education, group support, paralegal aid and restorative justice, complete education and apprenticeship as well as medical first aid and calamity relief, we build together a framework, where individuals can develop their potentials enabling them to break out of the vicious cycle of poverty they are trapped in.

The different projects and programs are presented below.

Ruth Kellenberger Safe House

The house was christened «Ruth Kellenberger Safe House» to honour Thomas› mother, who passed away on 6 October 2020. The women’s shelter is located on the ground floor, while boys are accommodated on the upper floor.

Alice Rose Clover House

When completed, the social therapy prevention and intervention centre will provide therapy rooms for the more than 50 children in our Children’s Village, over 700 supported children and young people from several of the city’s poor neighbourhoods, and other victims of sexual and/or physical violence and extreme neglect.

Zion Children Village

The family as a place of security, where one experiences love, care and protection, is the most important unit of a society. In the Philippines, however, hundreds of thousands of children live on the streets as a result of poverty, neglect, violence and abuse.

Zion Children Village in detail

Here are descriptions of the individual houses and photos.

Zion Community Learning Center

In our day school, the Zion Community Learning Center, around 400 students receive schooling, meals and medical care. We work in close partnership with the Philippine Department of Education, DepEd.

Landfill Learning Center

The Landfill Community Learning Center of Island Kids Philippines is located in the middle of the poor neighborhood of the recyclables collectors at the former municipal landfill of Cagayan de Oro. It has been providing various educational programs for the poorest children and youth since June 1, 2009, and for adults since 2013.

Medical Service

Our health service supports, accompanies and cares for people affected by poverty in cases of illness, during hospitalization, in aftercare and in palliative care.

Fight against human trafficking

Due to the poor economic situation in the slums, children and young people in particular are in great danger of becoming victims of human traffickers.

Safer Kids

PIKIFI became a partner with Save the Children Philippines in 2021 under their OSAEC programme.

BRC – Building Resilient Communities

This project brings together the Life Bank Foundation, the Partnership for Transparency Fund Asia and the Jesse Robredo Foundation to build resilient communities.

Street Outreach

The Street Outreach Team regularly visits street children in various hotspots of the city, conducts talks and experiential activities with them, actively listens to them and offers them professional help.

Relief

Geographically, the Philippines are part of the «Ring of Fire» and are regularly hit by violent natural events such as typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions.