Child Support     Disability Assistance   Fish Farming  Mud Crab Production  Scholarship Programme

GLOBAL RECONCILIATION PROJECTS

in partnership with Kalumonan Development Centre and House of Joy Orphanage,

San Isidro, Davao Oriental, Philippines

Project's Philosophy

We believe that development comes from approaching many needs in communities  rather than one or two. An example of this is, if we are only concerned with child aid, this does not remove  the underlying cause that parents  often simply  do not have the resources for caring correctly for their children.

With this is mind, we have started livelihood programmes to help  ensure that the  poorest families can provide for their  own  children.

We have an on-going college  scholarship programme which provides underprivileged youth  with the opportunity to  finish their studies and hopefully find secure employment for the many  graduates who remain unemployed and dependent  their struggling parents.

We also organise a school youth programme which allows them to used their skills in educating others  in environmental protection,  enhancing natural resources such as fishing and sustainable forestry.

GRP provides assistance for differently-abled persons from remote areas so that they can develop their own personal skills and not only become more confident,   but to become fully integrated into society.

As with our own Western societies, development must not only be viewed as economic but also as social and cultural. . For this reason, we also have peace and reconciliation projects as a focal point for all our projects. Without peace there can be no sustainable development and for all of the reasons above we have adopted the principle that:

" The real objective must always be the good life for all the people, peace, bread, housing, education, good health and above all, the right to walk with dignity  on the world's great boulevards".  Ralph Bunche (United Nation)