AS of 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 13, through your generosity and kind heart, Caritas Manila raised P3,503,864.50 through Caritas Manila’s Back to School Telethon 2017 held recently in partnership with Radio Veritas 846 and TV Maria.
Caritas Manila believes that education is the most effective developmental program for poverty reduction. This is based on the study made by Ducanes and Tan (2014), which established that poverty incidence in the Philippines drops to 2.4 percent in a household with at least one college graduate. Getting a college degree, therefore, is vital to nation-building, with a 98-percent poverty-reduction indicator.
Funds raised will be used to support almost 5,000 scholars under the Caritas Manila’s Youth Servant Leadership and Education Program (YSLEP). YSLEP is one of the Church’s responses to poverty reduction. YSLEP is the flagship program of Caritas Manila, which extends financial assistance to poor but deserving youth, trains and hones them, not only for academic excellence, but also to become servant-leaders and good members of the community.
Caritas Manila also received P577,094.70 worth of donations for those residents affected by the crisis in Marawi City.
To date, Caritas Manila has produced over 10,000 graduates, and continues to provide educational assistance, values-formation workshops and leadership trainings to almost 5,000 students nationwide, with an average of 300 college and technical/vocational graduates yearly.
It only takes P2,100 a month (P25,200 a year) to support a scholar and help him or her finish college. Also, there is a 98-percent chance that a household gets out of poverty when there is a college graduate in the family, according to the Family Income and Expenditure Study in 2009.
Caritas Manila is the Archdiocese of Manila’s lead social services and development ministry. Apart from YSLEP, Caritas Manila runs diverse projects that help the poor fulfill their human potential, such as Restorative Justice Ministry, Caritas Damayan and Segunda Mana.
Caritas Manila continues to accept donations for YSLEP and relief for Marawi City. Please call our DonorCare lines 563-9311, 564-0205, 0999-7943455, 0905-4285001 and 0929-8343857. To know more about the YSLEP and other programs of Caritas Manila, visit www.caritasmanila.org.ph.
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To know more about Caritas Manila, visit www.caritasmanila.org.ph. For your donations, call our DonorCare lines 563-9311, 564-0205, 0999-7943455, 0905-4285001 and 0929-8343857. Make it a habit to listen to Radio Veritas 846 in the AM band, or through live streaming at www.veritas846.ph. For comments, e-mail veritas846pr@gmail.com.