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By Nirva Delacruz When you meet Edna Marie, more popularly known as Tin, what first strikes you about her is how she is like Little Miss Sunshine in the flesh. Across programs at the Foundation, from Program Paghilom to Bahay Kalinga, there’s hardly anyone who doesn’t know her. She has a motherly mien that welcomes
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By: Nirva Delacruz Who says kids are too young to care? This fledgling group was born in the minds and hearts of a 9-year old and a 7-year old who were coming up with ideas for their financial literacy curriculum. “We wanted them to be able to see where their donations were going and not
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MANILA– Harvard Club Philippines (HCP) celebrated the Harvard community’s Annual Global Day of Service by gifting Manila’s homeless under the care of the Arnold Janssen Kalinga Foundation (AJKFI) with a much-needed donation of rice and drinking water on August 31. “As [Harvard’s] alumni club in the Philippines, we thought we should participate in this tradition
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By Venice Narisma Thin, lethargic, and evidently suffering from a medical condition. This is how I would describe Randy when I first invited him to join KALINGA Formation Program’s batch 5. I was quick to note, however, that he remained optimistic about his recovery even while he loitered around the Lawton area in Manila, homeless
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By JR Torres The day I volunteered at the Arnold Janssen Kalinga Center through iVolunteer, there were many volunteers, including a group from Meat Plus who were also doing their outreach. Little did I know, while I had previously questioned my faith, this experience with the homeless would help me regain some of my spiritual
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By *Rafqa I used to have a simple and quiet life. Even with six kids, all boys, we could eat thrice a day. We were happy with what we had. Even if life was hard, we could afford to send our children to school. Our dream as parents was to see our children graduate one
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By Nirva Delacruz For such fast-paced operations, many people looking from the outside would imagine that the foundation’s daily ground work is ran by someone a lot younger. But AJ Kalinga’s managing director Teresita or Tessam, as she is fondly called, is a year shy of 70. Not looking like she’s slowing down any time
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By Noel Feliciano How do you bridge the distance between being homeless and helping the homeless? Our experience at the Arnold Janssen Bahay Kalinga (BK) in Caloocan City is showing us it’s not such a big leap. The Foundation first opened its stay-in residence, BK, on July 16, 2020, the feast of Our Lady of
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