Kapamilya stars rally behind Bantay Bata cause
Published Sep 25, 2018 09:44 am
The first-ever ABS-CBN Ball to be attended by the biggest stars on Sept. 29 is dedicated to the relaunched Bantay Bata 163 Children’s Village, with the aim of helping more children heal and recover from the effects of abuse.
(From right): Acting City Government Assistant Department Head III Maribel Cayco; Social Service Development Department Head Fe Macale; Quezon City Administrator Aldrin Cuna; ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc. (ALKFI) Chairman Eugenio Lopez III; Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista; ALKFI Managing Director Susan Afan; Bantay Bata 163 Program Director Jing Castañeda – Velasco and ALKFI Chief Finance and Services Officer Lita Lara at the MOA signing for the financial assistance from the Quezon City government to shoulder the operational and maintenance expenses of the Bantay Bata 163 Children’s Village.
In its 21 years, Bantay Bata 163 has saved thousands of children and given them new hope in life through the village, which serves as a halfway house for rescued kids.
According to psychologist Estrelita Turingan from DSWD-NCR, Bantay Bata’s capacity-building programs provides children with the holistic healing that victims of abuse need to overcome trauma.
“Trauma lives in the body and affects each person differently,” said Estrelita. “Bantay Bata 163 has been able to provide each child with their own unique program of counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment.”
Children’s Village in Norzagaray, Bulacan will continue to provide immediate care and holistic healing for at least 120 children at a time and help them build a better future for themselves through physical and psychological means in a structured, therapeutic family-like environment. Social workers, health care professionals, and house parents will look over the children in the complex, which has an administrative building, multi-purpose hall, and cottages, where children stay.
“ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation’s child welfare and protection program will continue to evolve as it remains in the service of the Filipino children,” said Jing Castañeda-Velasco, program director of Bantay Bata 163.
(From right): Acting City Government Assistant Department Head III Maribel Cayco; Social Service Development Department Head Fe Macale; Quezon City Administrator Aldrin Cuna; ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, Inc. (ALKFI) Chairman Eugenio Lopez III; Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista; ALKFI Managing Director Susan Afan; Bantay Bata 163 Program Director Jing Castañeda – Velasco and ALKFI Chief Finance and Services Officer Lita Lara at the MOA signing for the financial assistance from the Quezon City government to shoulder the operational and maintenance expenses of the Bantay Bata 163 Children’s Village.
In its 21 years, Bantay Bata 163 has saved thousands of children and given them new hope in life through the village, which serves as a halfway house for rescued kids.
According to psychologist Estrelita Turingan from DSWD-NCR, Bantay Bata’s capacity-building programs provides children with the holistic healing that victims of abuse need to overcome trauma.
“Trauma lives in the body and affects each person differently,” said Estrelita. “Bantay Bata 163 has been able to provide each child with their own unique program of counseling, psychotherapy, and treatment.”
Children’s Village in Norzagaray, Bulacan will continue to provide immediate care and holistic healing for at least 120 children at a time and help them build a better future for themselves through physical and psychological means in a structured, therapeutic family-like environment. Social workers, health care professionals, and house parents will look over the children in the complex, which has an administrative building, multi-purpose hall, and cottages, where children stay.
“ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation’s child welfare and protection program will continue to evolve as it remains in the service of the Filipino children,” said Jing Castañeda-Velasco, program director of Bantay Bata 163.