The SABANA

The Sanayan ng mga Batang Nananambakan (SaBaNa) Center was created primarily to eliminate child labor in the dump site. Among its support programs are Organizing, Creation, Livelihood Generation, Learn Program/Educational Assistance, Networking/Building Contracts, Health/Sanitation/Nutrition, Advocacy and Capability Building.

Objectives

• To empower the community, parents, youths and children through capability building and organizing activities
• To ensure financial sustainability of the project through income-generating activities
• To make children aware of alternative and creative ways of earning, and provide them with necessary education and vocational preparation for employment
• To make the parents aware of their responsibilities and recognize that their children have right as persons
• To build effective partnership among agencies concerned with child labor
• To train the community leaders and workers who will serves as implementers of the project and at the same time advocate from within their community the children's issues and child's rights
• To advocate policies that will protect children from working
• To provide education assistance that will facilitate the formal schooling of the children

TuKLASan Center

In 1991, the Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation, Inc. came up with a special project for streetchildren, the Tuklas (discovery), Kalinga (care), Laruan (play), Aralan (study) at Sanayan (training) TuKLASan Center. Its primary aim is to provide care, protective, rehabilitative and preventive programs and services that will respond to the problems concerning streetchildren.

With the outpour of responses to ERDA's call in helping TuKLASan Center, its new building was constructed in San Juan, Metro Manila and the building was named the Ma. Elena Yuchengco House (MEYH).

Objectives

• To determine the needs, problems and concerns of the child;
• To provide home-life until such time that the child is reconciled with his natural family or substitute/fosters families; or refer the child without families to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other Non-Government Offices that take care of children without parents;
• To provide food, shelter, clothing, care, protection and recreational activities while in the center;
• To provide counseling to the child in order to help him understands his life situation and also recognize value, re-orientation and education session;
• To provide some vocational or skills training in non-formal and non-graded education set-up that will prepare that child to his entry to productive life;
• Whenever possible, provide assistance in bringing back the child to formal school set-up; and
• To develop an integrated program that will address the needs of the child's family.