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Orphanage, a place of Love
In third world countries, the saying, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" certainly applies. In the Philippines, there is a handful of rich people, but, boy, poverty is everywhere. It is in a rural area of the Philippines, where the 85% of the populace live below the Philippine poverty level, that the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) is located.
Up on the streets of the metropolitan Manila and down in the local provinces, unwanted children, neglected, abused (including those in child labor), scavengers, homeless and the orphaned are a common sight.
Children, a.k.a. Little Angels of God, who are unwittingly placed in these situations, make emotions run high. The Founder of the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) can hardly hold his emotions whenever he sees these little angels asleep along the streets, laying sick or abandoned without anybody's care, searching for food in the trash (while in places like the U.S.A. tons after tons of food are thrown to the garbage), or growing up without proper education.
With a very bad economy prevailing in the country (where an ordinary laborer gets only $3 a day), the Philippine government is helpless in responding to this perennial problem without the help of Non-Government Organizations or Religious Organizations, like SMAHE, run Charitable Institutions, e.g. the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Shelter. While the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) was originally intended only as home for less fortunate children, it has recently become also a shelter for runaways, rape victims, and incest victims. The care for these less fortunate little angels is a duty and responsibility of every baptized Christian for "whatever you do to the least of your brothers you do it to me" (Mt. 25:40).
It is for this reason that in 1998 the late Pope John Paul II, at Abujan Nigeria, echoed the same sentiment when he said, "We
must all work for a world in which no child will be deprived of peace and security, of a stable family life, of the right to grow up without fear and anxiety."
In third world countries, the saying, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" certainly applies. In the Philippines, there is a handful of rich people, but, boy, poverty is everywhere. It is in a rural area of the Philippines, where the 85% of the populace live below the Philippine poverty level, that the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) is located.
Up on the streets of the metropolitan Manila and down in the local provinces, unwanted children, neglected, abused (including those in child labor), scavengers, homeless and the orphaned are a common sight.
Children, a.k.a. Little Angels of God, who are unwittingly placed in these situations, make emotions run high. The Founder of the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) can hardly hold his emotions whenever he sees these little angels asleep along the streets, laying sick or abandoned without anybody's care, searching for food in the trash (while in places like the U.S.A. tons after tons of food are thrown to the garbage), or growing up without proper education.
With a very bad economy prevailing in the country (where an ordinary laborer gets only $3 a day), the Philippine government is helpless in responding to this perennial problem without the help of Non-Government Organizations or Religious Organizations, like SMAHE, run Charitable Institutions, e.g. the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Shelter. While the Orphanage of the Virgin of Guadalupe (OVG) was originally intended only as home for less fortunate children, it has recently become also a shelter for runaways, rape victims, and incest victims. The care for these less fortunate little angels is a duty and responsibility of every baptized Christian for "whatever you do to the least of your brothers you do it to me" (Mt. 25:40).
It is for this reason that in 1998 the late Pope John Paul II, at Abujan Nigeria, echoed the same sentiment when he said, "We
must all work for a world in which no child will be deprived of peace and security, of a stable family life, of the right to grow up without fear and anxiety."