John Justine Antonio is one of the ALS graduates and a sponsored child for almost nine years until today. Despite circumstances in his life, education has been important to him to achieve his dreams.
He has three siblings and is the eldest among them. His mother is the only one supporting their daily need as a fish drying helper because his father is already a senior citizen. They have been financially challenged which made him stop at Grade 8 in junior high school.
MANILA, July 7, 2021 – Good Neighbors Philippines (GN PHL) teams up with ShopeePay, an integrated mobile wallet that offers users easy access to digital payment services, to offer users an easy and convenient way to donate to the organization’s programs and beneficiaries.
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region 3 (Central Luzon) through the Provincial Science and Technology Center in Bulacan, in partnership with Good Neighbors International Philippines, granted a Disaster Preparedness Kit in Barangay Tibaguin, Hagonoy, Bulacan last June 22, 2021.
Becoming a channel of God to help other people is one of the callings of a humanitarian worker of Good Neighbors working in the field of Prieto Diaz Community Development Project.
She is Maidy May Duran, an Income Generation, Energy and Environment, and DRR Staff-In-Charge. She also grew up as a sponsored child in an international NGO. This gave her an idea of what humanitarian organizations do and how dedicated the humanitarians are to delivering programs and services to their sponsored children.
Good Neighbors International Philippines (GNIP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) recently sealed its partnership for a project dubbed Inclusive Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction. This project is pivoted to address the needs of vulnerable children, including children with disabilities and indigenous children, and capacitate them on disaster response and preparedness.
Join Good Neighbors International Philippines (GNIP) Laak Field Office on the Webinar on Psycho-Social Support/Psychological First Aid (PSS/PFA) for Teachers in joint partnership with the Department of Education – Division of Davao de Oro. This webinar aims to equip the teachers with the necessary skills to cope and manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and as they deliver responses in the communities and children.
GUD LIFE aims to:
- Improved access to and capacity to maintain a potable water source.
- Cultivating their backyard garden using Hydroponics and use the product as a food source and alternative source of income; and
- Sitio Bakal is organized and capacitated to sustain its sources of food and income.
GNIP has spearheaded the initiatives on urban gardening projects using hydroponics technology during the pandemic that has benefited 12 families in different ways.
When the pandemic swept the Philippines last year, Sitio Bakal underwent restrictive community quarantines which led to a surge in the unemployment rate within the community. Food shortage and income loss are among the major problems causing anxiety to the families apart from the ongoing health emergency.