In the spring of 2016 we broke ground on a children's home for the most vulnerable kids of the city landfill of Cagayan De Oro (CDO) in the Philippines. The construction was completed in late 2016 and the children are now safe in their new accommodation.
Other organisations have funded further houses in order to create a children's village. The village will be run by a local NGO with whom we work very closely.
The children are largely from the waste picker community located on and around the 17 hectare garbage dumping site of CDO. In this depressed area, approximately 1,900 socially deprived people are living in about 350 families. They survive from waste picking with incomes far below the poverty line.
They are working under extremely unhealthy and dangerous conditions and without any social securities. The children who work on the landfill often have no access to education or drop out from school due to truancy or early marriage.
The project will be utilising the tried and tested method of raising the children in small family like units rather than an orphanage.
The city landfill of Cagayan De Oro
The city landfill of Cagayan De Oro
