This covers a Child's meals, snacks, and freshwater for one day.

This buys a half-sack of rice that will feed the children for a week at Children's Home or at the Children's Recovery Unit.  We go through a lot of rice! It's the Filipino staple diet component.

This covers a birthday party & gift for a child to celebrate their birthday. This is often the first time their birth has ever been celebrated.  Also, sadly, sometimes at the Recovery Unit, we are so aware that it could actually be their last.

This pays for one week's grocery for the children at Children's Home or at CRU.  We buy rice, meat, vegetables and occasionally if we can afford it, we also buy fruit.  We also buy milk for the children and other healthy snacks.

This pays for a nurse's salary for one month to ensure that the children get high-quality healthcare and never miss a medicine or a check-up again.

This pays a salary for a social worker to professionally manage the case of each child and ensure that they don't get stuck in the system.

This would buy a laptop for the homeschool department for the children to share.  At the moment we have one shared among 39 kids.  It's just not enough. This is an immediate need.

This would buy a laptop for the staff to use to Skype the new adoptive families of the children so that they can begin to communicate and get to know each other before the family comes to fetch them and bring them home. This is an immediate need.

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2020 rocked the world! It left everyone 'high and dry' BUT despite the pandemic, typhoons and all the rest of the world's craziness, many kids are still really sick and still need your help! We can still saves lives together, but we need your help!

Again, despite the madness of 2020, we still have 25 precious kids from hard places to love, give shelter to, help process their trauma and prepare them for eventual adoption or independent living. Time didn't stand still for us.  Life went on...

Helping Hands Healing Hearts Ministries Inc

Helping Hands Healing Hearts Ministries Philippines Inc. (HHM) is a Christian, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) for children in crisis situations who need a safe refuge, assistance, and intervention, trauma-informed care, psychosocial support, spiritual support, medical help, and someone to advocate for their rights.  HHM believes that children belong in families and so we work hard at family preservation whenever possible and after exhausting every effort to keep a child in their biological family or in Kinship care, we support adoption, both domestic and international.

In our two homes in the heart of Baguio City Philippines, we offer 24 hr, alternative family-style, residential care where children can stay until they can be reunited with their families or until they are adopted or learn to live independently. Each home offers various programs including social work, medical, home life, nutritional, recreational, educational, adoption, counseling, and Christian living programs for children who have been abandoned, abused, neglected, surrendered, or who are sick and in need of medical attention. 

We work alongside local hospitals, churches, local government units (LGU’s) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as well as the City Social Welfare and Development offices (CSWDO) to monitor and respond to the needs of children within the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) and beyond.  We work closely with DSWD and the Intercountry Adoption Board to facilitate adoptions for children who could not be reunified with their families.  We also work with international organizations like CAFO to stay abreast in learning globally the best ways forward for children from hard places and allow it to inform our care and to be guided on how best to incorporate our God-Centered approach into our professional work. 

Last year we a young guy called Felix in the local hospital while we were giving out Christmas shoeboxes as gifts.  He was weak, dying, and felt hopeless. He had been diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma in his leg and the prognosis wasn't good.  His leg was the first thing you would have noticed about him and the second was that despite the pain he was in, he was determined to live. We took his desire to live and decided to support him through his treatment.  

During lockdown he got stranded in his province and wasn't able to continue this treatment but thankfully, he was able to contact us and ask if he could come live at our Children's Recovery Unit to be able to continue his treatment.

He is now thriving and surviving because we said 

 helped.  You gave, you prayed and you supported us so we could support him and others like him.  Lets keep doing it!  

Your support has made all the difference to this child! It is helping us to keep saving and changing lives for kids and their families. 