Center for girls
The foundation has had the immense joy of having been able to open, for few years now, its first centers for young girls, mothers and little girls of the streets. Until now, the “parity” was not very respected, since in the street, the overwhelming majority of the children - about 9 out of 10 - are boys; but even if these small “flowers” of the streets are in the strong minority, their future in the street, as it is for the boys, is undoubtedly in danger, and prostitution is waiting to entrap them.
These centers accommodate all of the girls wanting to leave the sidewalks of the Filipino capital and all of the young mothers, who benefit from the foundation’s care during their pregnancy and through the first months of their maternity.
Today, these three structures are joined together in a large building, along the cathedral, made available to the foundation by the diocese of Manila. The needs are overwhelming and the opening of new centers is already a pressing reality, but what a joy it is to see one or another of the girls to take care of her own bathroom or to adjust her hair-band just right whereas just a few days before, her only concern was survival in the city. Now with their new found, innocent, consciousness of their appearance, these little “flowers of the street” oblige also the boys of the other centers to rediscover their gallantry and smoothness… and this is not a bad thing!
