Growth 2008 – 2024
Our two native teams in the Philippines are located in Manila and on the island of Cebu.
CEBU
Since 2009, our native team on the island of Cebu have been working to make a lasting change in the lives of those affected by extreme poverty. Our work of reaching orphans and at-risk children suffering from the effects of extreme poverty is being sustained and multiplied by a widely diverse farmland enterprise.
ORPHAN CARE
We were able to launch our girls orphan home in 2011 where we have provided complete residential care for at-risk orphan girls. Through our weekend children’s outreach program, we encountered orphan girls who were victims of child labor or slavery situations. In response to this tragic realization, our native team has provided refuge for these girls since the home’s inception. Funds raised during our year-end 2021 campaign for our Cebu, Philippines girls home have been slowly but surely enabling the renovation and expansion of their kitchen, living quarters, and study areas to allow us to bring in more girls in need.
CHILDREN’S HOPE CENTER
In 2015, we launched our Children’s Hope Center on the island of Cebu enrolling local at-risk children, employing teachers, and enlisting the help of volunteers. Our Cebu Hope Center is modeled after our other Hope Centers — after-school care programs which have always strived to ensure that children stay successfully enrolled in school.
FARMLAND ENTERPRISE
The farm produces several tons of produce annually. In its lifetime it has produced over half a million eggs, over 30 tons of coconuts, and a steady flow of fish, bananas, vegetables, along with profits from a goat and pork stockbreeding enterprise. Our entire farmland enterprise is very lucrative as profits generated from the various farmland projects, combined with your donations, have always allowed us to operate our girls orphan home and our Children’s Hope Center.
WOMEN’S TRADE SCHOOL
Our Cebu team also operates a program that is equipping at-risk women and their daughters to avoid the perils of human trafficking by fostering their creative skills in craft-making small businesses. Their creations can be found at our SheHasHope.org pop-up markets. Sadly, the island of Cebu is a major trafficking hub in Asia. With your help, we are able to spare women and girls from being susceptible to traffickers on the island who lure impoverished women with false promises of good jobs abroad only to become slaves once they leave the country.
MANILA
We first partnered with our Manila, Philippines native team in 2012 and purchased land for a new facility for their Children’s Hope Center program in 2014. Our Manila team started up their Hope Center program in 2008 before we partnered with them, but after purchasing the land, they completed construction on the new facility in 2016.
CHILDREN’S HOPE CENTER
Through our Manila Hope Center program, we have offered families of the slums an alternative to child labor. We have offered nutritious fresh-cooked meals, clean water, hygiene lessons, free hygiene supplies, games, “Vacation Bible School” activities, and classes on basic computer skills. The program has also offered these children educational support — providing everything they need to enroll in school, such as uniforms, book bags, and school supplies.
Read recent stories of impact from our Philippines programs:
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On a typical day in our programs, many “overnight” successes revealed from Uganda to the Philippines
The concept of time zones is fascinating, wondering what is going on in any part of the world at a given time. When we’re waking up, is Beijing getting ready for bed? What happened in Rome while we were sleeping? For our recent gala, our team pulled up some stats to talk about what happens […]
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8th Annual “A Taste of Hope” Gala Celebrates 31 Years of Lives Changed by Your Generosity
We were so very encouraged by our 8th annual “A Taste of Hope” gala held on April 18th. What an amazing celebration of 31 years of rescued lives and of your generosity in action. God miraculously provided over $105,000— exceeding the amount raised at our 2023 gala! A huge thank you if you were involved […]
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You’re making a difference: see the fruits of your generosity in these recent 15 photos from our programs
In our fast-paced world of constant media bombardment and email inboxes on overload, it’s hard to know where to strike the balance between long-form reports and more visual digests. So today, to change things up a bit, we bring you a photo-report consisting of very recent shots from our programs! We hope you’ll enjoy seeing […]
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Miraculous news thanks to donor generosity: Uganda and Cebu dreams are now a reality!
We’re honestly so happy to share this update. In our last newsletter we had informed our followers that we didn’t quite reach our year-end goal and that the Uganda land purchase would have to wait. Well, in a miraculous turn of events, someone who read that email felt moved to donate the full amount needed […]
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Celebrating the incredible impact you’ve made for women and children this year with our top ten field-submitted photos of 2023
As is our tradition, we’re closing out the year by sharing our favorite field-submitted photos we feel summarize the spirit of what we’ve achieved together with your support over the past 12 months. Let’s take a look! 10. We start our countdown to our favorite field-submitted photo of 2023 with this wonderful image depicting your […]
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2023 Impact Report highlights over 1 million meals served, more than 1,500 women and children receive rehabilitation, nutrition, education
Today we are happy to reflect on this past year and share with you what we’ve achieved together— 2023 has been a year of growth and success, while we’ve also continued to battle many challenges abroad due to political instabilities. We were especially happy to welcome so many new friends into our community of support […]
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End-of-year goals aim to fulfill time-sensitive opportunities in Uganda, support Philippines girls home, replenish emergency fund
Today, we are announcing that with your support we can reach our goal to fulfill many long-awaited needs in our Uganda and Philippines programs as well as replenish our global emergency fund after a challenging year. First, we’d like to take you to rural Uganda, where we’ve been working with our local team for 14 […]
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30 years of hope and healing: Peace Gospel’s inspiring legacy
Today we are excited and grateful to share the milestone Peace Gospel has reached: 30 years of impacting and transforming the lives of the orphans, child labor victims, and young trafficking survivors. We are thrilled to share with you what we’ve achieved together over these past 30 years of partnering with and empowering locally-led, mercy-based […]
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United by compassion: coming together to support orphan girls in the Philippines
The work on the roof is almost complete!! We wanted to share a few photos of the progress and express our thanks for the incredible generosity and support of our donors towards our Girls Home Roof Campaign in the Philippines. The donations from everyone who raised their hand and chose to become a part of […]
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June “Doses of Hope” highlights results of our scholarship campaign breaking the cycle of poverty one student at a time
Doses of Hope is our recurring month-end report intended to bring you just that, small but powerful doses of hope-filled stories and updates. We have several big doses of hope for you from this month, including a special update on a very important goal that was met! We are thrilled to announce that thanks to […]