A Place of Dreams

Construction of Learning Center in Davao City

Since 2007, the Lingap Pangkabataan Inc. has been implementing a holistic community-based response against child trafficking in selected sending areas, including indigenous communities in Mindanao. Lingap’s programs include: community education and advocacy campaigns in schools, churches, barangays, consultations with concerned organizations and government agencies in the provincial,

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Caring for children-victims of typhoon "Ondoy"

It has been exactly a week since Metro Manila and 14 other nearby provinces felt the fury of typhoon “Ondoy,” but residents of the areas are still reeling from its devastation.
On September 26, 2009, Ondoy unleashed a one month’s quota or rain waters on the metropolis and suburbs in only nine hours.   The 12 million residents were caught unaware, and paid the price for it.  Almost 300 people died while scores are still missing.  Thousands of houses went under water,     MORE...

Establishment of Lingap’s Half Way Shelter

Last Christmas was different from other holidays I spent in Albay.  Not only traveling back home in a car cramped with boxes of groceries, school bags and supplies for the children and their families, but imagining the scenario of the place greatly affected by typhoon Reming. Albay is also the first home of Lingap.  It is where Lingap started as an organization with three or five project partners implementing child-focused programs in most parts of the province, before it expanded to     MORE...