An Assessment on a Non-Government Christian Action Organization, for Relief and Empowerment’s Abot-Palad Kabataan Center-Based Program in Las Pinas City.

Abstract

The occurrence of street children in an underdeveloped country like the Philippines is one of the many facets of poverty. With the upsurge of urbanization and the government’s laxity plus in keeping with the globalization policies, the family particularly the children mirror the crisis. Although it envisions itself to be as a warm community in the face of modernization, the City of Las Pifias cannot exempt itself from the sordid phenomenon of neglected, abandoned and working street children The government claims to uphold the rights of these children however non-government organizations seem to be always at the forefront of providing qualitative assistance to disadvantaged members of the society like the street children. To prove this notion correct, this study attempts to evaluate one of the programs of a non-government organization in Las Piflas City, Christian Action for Relief and Empowerment, Inc (CARE, Inc.) which is the Abot-Palad Kabatan Project (enter-Based Program or thc Abot-Palud Kabataan Project-CARE Center (APK-CARE Center). The study presents how APK-CARE Center is able to give qualitative programs and services to its beneficiaries based on the satisfaction of the clients themselves. It has employed the participant-observation method as one of the major techniques of the Historical Materialist Approach to general sufficient data and assessment. Through the immersion and in-depth interviews, the study presents that APK-CARE sides with the underprivileged members of the society like the beneficiaries of the center. The center uplifts the quality of their lives through the different programs and services it maintains for these children. Aside from the basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, education as well as dental and medical services, APK-CARE also instills spiritual and moral values, provides counseling and psychosocial interventions, balances the clients’ social well-being through socio-cultural and recreational activities, gives them self-importance through involving them in the making of the house rules and creating other programs like family enrichment and temporary foster programs which help in the holistic development of their clients.