ICTSI Foundation renews support for development partners

(From left) Sherryl Loseño, VF executive director; Cecilia Oebanda-Pacis, VF founder, Filipina Laurena, ICTSI Foundation executive director, and Francis J G. Bartolome, ICTSI Foundation program operations manager.

The ICTSI Foundation has renewed its support for nongovernment organizations Voice of the Free (VF) Foundation, Inc., Child Protection Network, and Don Bosco Youth Center – Tondo for 2024.

“Our partnerships with these nongovernment organizations remain strong as we continue to support their causes and beneficiaries. Together, we hope to inspire and contribute to positive change in society by protecting, educating and empowering those in need,” said Filipina Laurena, ICTSI Foundation executive director.

Last 22 January, the Foundation signed a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Voice of the Free, which runs the Center of Hope – a facility that houses 45 survivors of human trafficking and sexual abuse. Aside from offering refuge, the facility also provides survivors medical and psychological support, education and vocational training.

On the same day, the Foundation and Child Protection Network inked the agreement supporting the Philippine General Hospital’s Child Protection Unit (CPN). The CPN provides legal, social, medical and forensic services, and training programs for the treatment and protection of more than 1,500 women and children from abuse.

(From left) Mr. Bartolome; Ms. Laurena; Dr. Bernadette J. Madrid, CPN executive director; and Atty. Katrina Legarda, National Network of WCPUs, CPN Foundation, Inc. director.

Finally, the Foundation renewed its commitment to cover the full matriculation fees of 600 technical-vocational scholars of Don Bosco Youth Center - Tondo for the school year 2024-2025 through a MOA signing on 5 February.

(From left)  Jonafe A. Travero, Don Bosco Tondo external relations officer – projects; Fr. Gaudencio T. Carandang Jr., SDB, Don Bosco Tondo rector; Ms. Laurena; and Mr. Bartolome.