AdU, Childhope Asia Philippines Forge Partnership
Adamson University recently inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Childhope Asia Philippines, a non-government organization dedicated to uplifting the lives of street children, to create a partnership servicing the physical, spiritual, and intellectual needs of Manila’s street children.
Childhope’s mission is to advocate the cause of street children and to implement programs and services to educate, protect, counsel, and assist them. The NGO has three main program/projects: education for street children, community mobilization against child prostitution, and consultancy services to Tahanan Sta. Luisa (for sexually abused adolescent street girls) and Families and Children for Empowerment and Development (FCED). Their programs and services has garnered them an international award in 2001 for best practice in social work and social sciences.
The MOA was signed by University President Fr. Gregorio L. Bañaga Jr., C.M. and Ms. Teresita L. Silva, President and Executive Director of Childhope Asia Philippines last June 26, 2009 at the President’s Office Conference Room. Adamson will be integrating their outreach service into the Academic Service Learning (ASL) and will cover areas such as values and spirituality formation, Convention on the Rights of the Child, paralegal education, primary health education, protective behavior against sexual abuse in children, adolescent sexuality and gender sensitivity, basic literacy, life skills and goal planning, sports and recreation activities, and even financial education. These areas are all aimed at not just saving the kids off the streets but in giving them what they need to make a complete, peaceful life.
Among the AdU departments and colleges to be involved in this project will be the Institute for Religious Education (IRED) and the colleges of Law, Nursing, Science, Education, Liberal Arts, and Business Administration.
