MGHM rehabilitation center livelihood program for the poor
Home of Love
MQHM Rehabilitation and Livelihood Training Center
Minors Rescued in Dumaguete City
Jan 7th
A number of young girls were rescued from Dumaguete City last October 2011. These girls ages 12 to 16 years old were known as the “rugby girls.” Some of them were addicted in this substance as early as 8 years old. They came from very poor and broken families. Their fathers or mothers have meager incomes. In order to support their needs, they engaged in prostitution silently. The minors confessed that they were pimped to foreign tourists or local visitors.
MQHM Sister had difficulty in locating these girls since they had no permanent residence. She usually found them in an area called “Parke”, where they usually stayed. They even sleep on the streets at night and never mind the cold weather. These girls admitted that often times they were caught sniffing rugby or during curfew operations and they were placed in a home for the youth. However, they disliked being forced to stay in that place that they ended up running away.
The first month of sheltering these minors was not easy. Six of them escaped from the Home of Love after four days of admission. They thought that they might be maltreated in the center. A 13 year old girl disclosed that she had a traumatic experience during her last placement and she was afraid that it might happen again. After a day of wandering in the streets, the six girls decided to come back to the Home of Love and pleaded to be accepted again. Armed with so much love and compassion, the sisters in the center embraced them whole heartedly and never uttered any hurting words to them.
These minors are hoping to change their lives. They dreamed of living a beautiful life with their families someday. But their rehabilitation and formation years in the Home of Love would be full of hardship and sacrifice. They are young but they have dreams. They needed most our prayers and support. The MQHM Sisters never give up in their misbehaviors but always ready to forgive them and help them to start a new.
FIGHT ON PROSTITUTION
Jan 7th
WE FIGHT PROSTITUTION Through our program called MQHM REHABILITATION AND LIVELIHOOD TRAINING CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN VICTIMS OF PROSTITUTION also called “THE HOME OF LOVE.”
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES:
A. RESIDENTIAL CARE
1.Temporary Shelter. The Rehabilitation center will offer temporary shelter to women and children victims of prostitution in the Philippines. The objective is to facilitate the transition period to their rehabilitation by physically providing an environment that is conducive to reformation. A shelter for children and victims of prostitution in the Philippines is provided until such time that they can stand on their own.
2. Health and Nutrition. MQHM provides healthy, nutritious and simple food to the clients and their children. Teaching them to live a frugal life.
3. Maternity and Medical Assistance MQHM provides maternity and medical assistance to women who were rescued pregnant. MQHM will engage the services of OB-Gynecologists and pediatricians to help the pregnant women.
B. Counseling and Psychological Therapy MQHM will facilitate psychological therapy and even psychiatric treatment in severe cases through linkages with specialized hospitals and expert psychologists and psychiatrists. Spiritual Formation To complete the overall healing process, MQHM will provide regular spiritual guidance and counseling through catechetical instruction, value formation, and group therapy. To hasten their psychological healing, an atmosphere of familial warmth, love, respect and understanding will be provided and maintained. Close guidance and counseling will go hand and hand. The center has a sister as an in-house psychologist with the expertise and experience in counseling former women and children victims of prostitution.. MQHM will also seek assistance from spiritual advisers who have proven expertise in successfully dealing with similar cases. To complete the overall healing process, MQHM will provide spiritual and moral guidance.
C. Livelihood and Skills Training. The objective of this component is to help former prostitutes and assist former women victims of prostitution who have resolved to engage in alternative livelihood in upgrading and enhancing their skills in areas such as baking, sewing, cooking/catering, candle making, and the like. The center trains its facilitator and trainers in premier training institutions, who in turn train the women in these competency areas.
D. Educational Assistance. MQHM will also offer scholarships to women who choose to finish their formal education. To this end, MQHM will establish the MQHM Scholarship devoted to deserving and promising women taken under its care to enable them to attain diplomas and certificates that would allow them to pursue professional careers, if they so choose.
E. Reintegration Phase. A monitoring and support system will be designed and established by MQHM in close consultation with professionals and the victims of prostitution themselves, to encourage former women and children clients to keep in touch with each other and the Center and provide support whenever needed. They will be periodically visited by the Center staff to observe the impact of the Center’s services in their lives, and to simply provide encouragement and moral support for their new lives. Monitoring will be continued until such time that MQHM has been satisfied that former clients have been fully integrated as a productive member of the society.
F. Child Care
MQHM realizes that women victims of prostitution support families and children. MQHM will provide child care support services for women who have children who need to be with their mothers while they are undergoing rehabilitation. To this end, MQHM will engage the services of child care professionals in the Philippines, such as child psychologists and pediatricians whenever these are needed, to address needs of children who might also have experienced various levels of trauma and medical problems associated with prostitution. MQHM Philippines will also encourage volunteers from schools, universities, hospitals and other professionals who wish to respond to needs of women and children in crisis situations. Other childcare services might also be provided, including child minding, pre school education, nutrition and health in the Philippines, and the like.
Child Care Program
Aug 6th
Child Care
Children Victims of Prostitution
MQHM realizes that women victims of prostitution support families and children. MQHM will provide child care support services for women who have children who need to be with their mothers while they are undergoing rehabilitation. To this end, MQHM will engage the services of child care professionals in the Philippines, such as child psychologists and pediatricians whenever these are needed, to address needs of children who might also have experienced various levels of trauma and medical problems associated with prostitution. MQHM Philippines will also encourage volunteers from schools, universities, hospitals and other professionals who wish to respond to needs of women and children in crisis situations. Other childcare services might also be provided, including child minding, pre school education, nutrition and health in the Philippines, and the like.
Victims of Prostitution in the Philippines are Sheltered in Cebu
Aug 6th
MQHM Rehabilitation and Livelihood Training Center for Women and Children Victims of Prostitution in Cebu or anywhere in the Philippines.
This project is entitled MQHM Rehabilitation and Livelihood Training Center for Women and Children Victims of Prostitution anywhere in the Philippines. In accordance with MQHM’s vision of restoring dignity of God’s outcast children including prostituted women, the project will provide five major support services to women commercial sex workers who choose to leave prostitution and engage in alternative livelihood.
As a first step, MQHM will offer temporary shelter and remove the women from the environment of prostitution. During such time that the women are housed at the shelter, counseling and other assistance will be provided. This is to help them deal with the trauma of negative experiences while in prostitution, and to facilitate inner healing. This is a necessary precondition for the overall empowerment process to begin. Parallel to psychological counseling, MQHM will provide spiritual and moral guidance to women .
While undergoing psychological counseling, the center will provide the women with;
livelihood skills training, to equip them with the competencies for alternative livelihood enterprises.
Skill areas will include (but not limited to) Bag Making, Baking, Sewing, Candle Making, Cooking and Catering, and Rosary making.
Upon completion of their preferred training courses, linkages to sources of capital for livelihood enterprises will be sought.
The center will link with government and private institutions and enterprises, which might provide initial on-the-job training, for possible long-term employment.
MQHM will monitor and continue to provide support to former women and children victims of prostitution upon completion of their rehabilitation, spiritual formation, and skills training. This is to continuously encourage them to be productive and empowered citizens of the country and the Christian community.
MQHM will also offer limited scholarships to women who choose to finish their formal education. To this end, MQHM will establish the Scholarship devoted to deserving and promising women taken under its care to enable to them to attain diplomas and certificates that would allow them to pursue professional careers, if they so choose.
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