During the 2023-2024 years, we are building a new home for our older residents. It will be the first of its kind at CSC, having dorm-style and apartment-style housing. It is expected to be completed in 2024 and will immediately house about 20 of our residents who are teenagers and young adults. We need your help to make this possible! Willl you please help us raise the remaining $600,000 to build it?

(To learn more about this project, click here.)

It obviously takes a lot to power our school and shelter and all of our buildings. We do our best to reduce electricity, turning off lights when not in use, using windows and skylights for lighting when possible and very minimal use of air conditioning. (Only a few rooms in all of our buildings even have air conditioning!) Giving to this special project provides the power to wash the clothes, keep the food cold in the refrigerators and keep the light on for caregivers in the nursery rocking babies in the middle of the night. 

Many children arrive from situations in which they were begging, looking through the dump for food or things to sell, or relying on a few grains of rice as their only nutrition. New children that come to CSC often don't know when to stop eating during their first few meals. They are accustomed to having so little that they gorge themselves until they begin to trust that meal time is consistent and reliable.

We provide 3 healthy meals a day, 365 days a year. The cost to feed each child is just under $4 per day. To feed all the children on any given day, the cost is $281 per day. 

Will you help us feed these kids?

Most CSC kids attend our Children of Hope School. But eventually the older students need to go to a school in Cebu City that offers higher grade levels.  These teens are some of our high school students and we have so manhy of them at CSC right now! This special project goes to help cover the cost of their tuition through these schools.

We take birthdays seriously! Each child gets a celebration for their big day, which includes their favorite meal, a couple small gifts, and a few personally invited friends from the other houses. One of the highlights is always when the child selects a staff member to pray just for them on their birthday.

This is an important opportunity for us to make sure each child knows that they are loved. It takes $70 total to provide for the festivities. This has increased due to increasing costs in the Philippines and also because we are offering our teenagers the option of doing an off-site birthday outing with a few friends. These tend to be slightly higher cost, but it offers an extra dose of independence for these older residents. 

When children come to CSC, they have often experienced malnourishment. We provide healthy meals and snacks at the shelter, but the children benefit from taking regular multi-vitamins. Other vitaimns and supplements tablets can also boost the immunity of the children, who have often have been struggling with multiple health conditions. As you can imagine, we go through bottles of vitamins in a pretty intense rate. If we have 77 children at the shelter and they each take a multi-vitamin once a day...that is 28,105 vitamins each year just in multi-vitamins! By supporting this special project, you will be helping to supply these needed supplements. 

If you have access to large quantities of vitamins for donation, please contact Jill at the US office.

Every week we distribute medicine to our kids. This is simply a part of providing for the number of children in our care, many of whom are dealing with unique medical issues because of their backgrounds. This amount covers standard medicine for typical childhood illnesses such as ear infections, pink eye, tapeworms, asthma and many others, as well as daily medicine for children with severe medical conditions such as kidney or digestive issues. 

The Outreach Department at CSC is one of the unique areas of our ministry that doesn't always get a lot of press, but is very important. We have a Social Worker assigned to working with families who have been served by CSC, including families with a child who came to live with us temporarily, and then returned home. This program touches those families that still need help. This fund also helps families in our community who have experienced a tragedy and need help to get back on their feet. We currently work with 40 families through this program! Your gift to this project helps those in the community around our shelter.

We have over 120 employees at CSC. Between three shifts of childcare workers, school staff, security guards, counselors, administrative staff, laundry workers and all the others, it takes a lot of good people to provide great care for our children! Each year, we take an intentional moment at Christmas to celebrate together. Our employee Christmas party is a wonderful way to encourage the people that give our kids a home! Our spouses are invited for this fun event. We have food catered (a rare occasion that our cooks get to be served instead of cooking and serving!) and also include small gifts, games, and prizes for them. This is the time we also recognize our employees for their length of service and achievements. The cost is about $12 per person (employee plus spouses) and covers the meal, prizes, gifts and awards. We would appreciate your help in recognizing the contributions of these very special staff members.

What a way to get involved in supporting CSC! Your gift of money will translate to Christmas gifts for a child in Cebu City. Christmas at CSC is a time of love, laughter, and traditions. You can help give a child a memorable Christmas in a loving home!

Every year we have a special meal with the children as we celebrate Christ's birth. A donation to this project covers the food, decorations and all the details to make this a special celebration for the children at CSC.

Poverty is a common situation in the Philippines. Although we compensate our employees with fair wages, many of our Filipino staff members end up providing for their extended family members who live in poverty. This is a big burden to carry. In order to support our staff, we are giving each Filipino employee a huge 50 pound bag of rice as a Christmas gift! Rice is eaten with every meal in the Philippines so this is a significant blessing. A donation to this special project will provide this important staple to employees and their families.

We ship large boxes with donated items to Cebu a few times each year. These boxes often include items that are difficult to find in the Philippines or very expensive to buy there. A donation of $105 to this project gets one large box of important items to Cebu.