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Philippine Children Desperately Need You!

               Greycell Preparing Dinner

Philippine children in poverty need help.  And they need your support. Will you help children and defeat poverty in the Philippines?

We believe that our call is to carry the gospel into all the world. We do this through ongoing missions of outreach and mercy to the children, adults, and elderly in the Philippines.

All of these ministries point to our great God and Savior as the lone

Poverty Poems -  Poverty Images in Verse!

Poverty poems, unlike poverty essays, are pretty hard to find on the internet sometimes, but they can certainly paint a vivid picture of some of the difficulties that the poor go through in the Philippines.

Children and Poverty in the Philippines

                    Levi (center) in white dress

I would like to share a true story with you about children and poverty in the Philippines.  It is about a little Philippine girl named Levi.

Her name is Airish, but everyone calls her by her nickname, Levi. Her father, Tolino, was a very poor man, barely raising enough money to feed and care for her.

Since Philippine school is not free like it is here in the U.S., Levi could not afford to get an education and therefore had no hope

A Philippine Poverty Story - This Report Just in from the field

Dear Fellow Workers,

It has been a heartbreaking evening and little Roselyn's mom is dead.

We received an urgent request to come and help Roselyn's mother who was feeling fine Monday, but fell into a coma late state with high fever on Tuesday. We drove over an hour to a remote barangay beyond Pitombayog to come to her aid. When we arrived all the family members were gathered apparently waiting for Felicidad, the mother of our own little Roselyn, to die. Yet no one would take responsibility and do anything.

We asked her family to carry her in a blanket to the van while I said a prayer. Pastor Gene drove brilliantly as we all prayed, but by the time we got to the hospital she had already passed away right there in the van.

A Poverty Article About The Philippines That May Surprise You!

A poverty article should be sad with lots of pictures of dirty and diseased children with hollow eyes, right? Wrong! Sorry to disappoint you, but this article on poverty in the Philippines is not like that.