Programs and Services
FCED has been working side – by – side with leaders of various assisted communities in a selected urban poor areas for the past decades in empowering the whole community, as well as its members, in establish a more sustainable living through the following programs and services below:
A.) COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION The systematic, planned and liberating change of process of transforming a complacent, deprived, malfunctioning powerless, fearful and needy Community into Organized, conscious, empowered, self – reliant, just and humane social organization.
Group work and capacity building interventions are offered to the following:
1. Children and Youth Groups
2. Parents Organizations
3. Fathers Organization
4. Barangay Council for the Protection of the Children
5. Micro – Finance, Self – Help Groups
B.) LIVELIHOOD/MICRO – FINANCE This includes the creation of opportunities for people to generate jobs and or augment income. Through the Micro – Finance Program clients saves and have access to funds that enable them to start micro – enterprises.
C.) HEALTH SERVICES This includes nutrition, environmental sanitation and monitoring of health status of children and their parents, the training of Junior Health Workers.
D.) EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE This involves giving educational support to selected children so they can acquire basic formal and non – formal education through the Alternative Learning System on Basic Education of the Department of Education (DepEd). This support will prevent children from working on the streets and learning appropriate Filipino values.
E.) ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION PROGRAM This includes motivating participation of children and the communities in building awareness and action for children’s rights, development and protection.
F.) LINKAGES AND NETWORKING This involves partnership and collaboration with other organizations such as the Manila Network for the Welfare of Children in Districts V and VI to effectively implement programs and services.
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