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The Angeles Bahay Bata Center

Our Mission

The Angeles Bahay Bata Center is an institution in Central Luzon that seeks to uplift the welfare of ‘street children’. Our mission is to place these children in a safe and caring environment, to give them all the basic necessities of life that any more fortunate child could normally expect. In this setting the children are then given the chance to develop and mature. By giving them an education, psychological support and spiritual guidance, recreational activities and a sense of hope, they have an opportunity to realize their potential, whether it be academically, musically or on the sporting field. We recognize the importance of integrating these children back to their families and society at large, hence our association with other agencies, particularly the City Social Welfare Department (CSWD) which assesses each child’s family situation before the process of reintegration.

Signing of MOA between the Government and Clark Centennial Rotary Club.

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The Angeles Bahay Bata Center offers a place for homeless ‘street children’. The Lazatin family donated the land required for this building while Angeles City Mayor, the Hon. Carmelo F. Lazatin has been active in lending financial and logistic support.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is greeted by Mark Smith, Treasurer, Rotary Club of Clark Centennial, Charter President Reynaldo Pineda looks on.

The Center opened on 25th July 2001 and the inauguration ceremony was graciously attended by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The Angeles Bahay Bata Center is patterned on the Don Bosco Tuloy Foundation Inc., a comprehensive rehabilitation program for ‘street children’ in Manila run by Father Rocky Evangelista. read more

Qualifications for admission

The Center accepts male children aged 8-17 years old who have been assessed as belonging to one or more of the following categories:
     Neglected / Abandoned / Orphaned
     Abused (physically, sexually or emotionally)

Female children who are rescued or referred to us are given temporary shelter in our halfway house until arrangements can be made for subsequent referral to the appropriate agency.

The Center

Set in its own grounds, this 3 storey building has 4 spacious dormitories that can house 60 children, however, owing to present funding constraints, in-residence capacity has been limited to 30 children. There are also restrooms, a library, an audiovisual room, a cafeteria, a medical clinic, administrative offices and quarters for the house parents. Within the grounds are a school, a halfway house, a caretaker’s house at the entrance and a basketball court.
 

More recently land has been acquired at the side of our Center where a magnificent little league baseball stadium has been constructed (solely from donations from the US aircraft industry), complete with bleachers (stands), changing rooms and a commentary box towering over the stadium.

About our school

There are four classrooms in our school. The initial building has been extended thanks to a generous donation from Mr Kim Bok Kuy, a Korean national, whose life was saved by a Filipino soldier during WW2.

As well as our resident boys, we also educate 25 children (boys and girls) from the local community. These students are chosen on the basis of their perceived potential to excel while considering socio-economic factors such as level of poverty, educational attainment of parents and the number of children in the family. The Rotary Club of Clark Centennial Street Children Foundation Inc. provides all school materials, uniforms, one meal a day and medical care for all the community students.

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The Bahay Bata Center in Angeles City, Philippines, provides a home, education and a future for the street children