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[WT News] 3. WT Brings New Hope to Single Mother Families in a Relocation Area in the Philippines(11.09.22)

[WT News]


3. WT Brings New Hope to Single Mother Families

in a Relocation Area in the Philippines


The Work Together Foundation, by setting up a social enterprise called the ‘CAMP Sewing Center’, is bringing new hope to single mother families in a relocation area in the Philippines. The families used to live in villages that have been torn down.


The Work Together Foundation established the ‘CAMP Sewing Center’ as one of its international ‘Smile Together Project'. The opening ceremony was held on July 15, 2011 in the Towerville area of San Jose Del Monte City in Bulacan province of the Philippines.


Guests look at the equipment in the center after a tape cutting ceremony


The CAMP Sewing Center was founded by a collaboration between South Korea and the Philippines, with financial support from the Work Together Foundation through SBSHopeTV and Community Chest of Korea, managerial support from the Center for Asian Mission for the Poor (CAMP), an international cooperation organization, and with specialized support from the Community Development Center of Hanshin University in Korea. San Jose Del Monte City provide the training space free of charge, and technical support was received from TESDA (Technical Education and Skills Development Authority) which exclusively provides training and technique education to the Philippines government.




Happy trainees at the center, which seeks to raise hope for the future


The CAMP Sewing Center wants to solve the poverty issue of the urban poor, especially single mother families expelled from Manila, the capital city of the Philippines, due to fires, storms and a government dismantlement policy. It addresses the poverty by running a social enterprise in the community. Women will be able to get job training opportunities and find sustainable jobs through various methods, such as producing uniforms for students in the community. These opportunities to learn and work at the center will lead woman in the community to keep their families stable.


This project can bring a reduction in poverty and change the future in a way that improves the quality of education and nourishment for local children by running a preschool, and providing jobs and technical trainings for their parents.


Greetings on the Inauguration Ceremony of the CAMP Sewing Center


At the ceremony, around 300 people celebrated and expressed their expectations about center-based community development. Attendees included Wilhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado, the governor of Bulacan, Reynaldo San Pedro, the mayor of San Jose Del Monte, Lee Gwang-taek, the executive director of the Work Together Foundation, Lee Sang-heon, a professor at the Community Development Center of Hanshin University, and Lee Chul-yong, a minister and representative of CAMP, along with Korean experts, trainees and local people.


Delivering appreciation plaques to people who helped establish the center


The site and the CAMP Sewing Center can also be seen through the SBS TV program Morning Wide.


People in the midst of preparing for the opening ceremony


The opening ceremony site becomes a village festival


Parade!



Translated: by CHOI Eun-young, JANG Gyeong-ah

Edited: by Patrick Ferraro, Marie LEE