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Lisbeth Bacaltos Corpuz
Founder

USA
P.O. Box 2882
Los Alamitos, CA 90720
Tel. No.: (562) 375-5939
Email: lizre7@msn.com

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OUR LADY OF DIVINE GRACE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, INC. , is a non-stock, non-profit organization, established to provide a second home and parental care for abandoned and/or abused, and/or neglected and/or orphaned children.

The foundation was named after Our Lady of Divine Grace, the patroness of Simala Parish, whose image was originally owned by her ascendant, and donated when the chapel became a parish, and to whom the founder and her entire family remains devoted.

Conceived originally for the deprived children of Sibonga town, some 60 kms. southeast from the metropolitan city of Cebu, the founder was inspired instead to open the shelter's doors to all the needy children of the island, limited only by the meager budget she could afford, as there are just too many worthy referrals from the government's Social Welfare (DSWD) that can no longer be accommodated in government-run institutions.

Our Lady of Divine Grace Children’s Foundation is one of the many foundations looking after the children’s welfare. We provide them the opportunities to experience a family and grow up naturally with brothers and sisters in the foundation.

Presently, we have a total of 20 inhoused children that have so far been provided with education, food, clothing and other services.

The foundation is optimistic to be able to serve 100 children and construct a building equipped with complete facilities in order to respond appropriately and support adequately the children’s development.

With the assistance coming from your kind hearted compassionate souls we can make a difference in these children’s lives.

Vision

To ease the pain of neglect, hunger, abuse and abandonment of children in their tender years, and to restore their dignity and rights as children of God and of the whole human race.

Mission

•Establishment of a shelter that will provide abandoned/abused children with basic food, clothing,
parental care, basic education and spiritual guidance.
•Explore the possibility of foreign adoption of wards abandoned in the center, subject to governing Philippine laws on adoption.
•Work closely with the government's Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in promoting child welfare and protection through non-formal education of parents, especially for single parents.
•Expand the capacity of the shelter to accommodate at least 100 wards at any given time; see picture;