ILOILO City – A total of 106 neglected, orphaned and abandoned children from four years old to 20 years old benefitted from the Police Regional Office 6’s (PRO-6) gift-giving activity at SOS Children’s Village in Barangay Poblacion, Zarraga, Iloilo on Aug. 5.
It was the PRO-6’s way of marking the 119th Police Service Anniversary, said Police Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan, regional police director.
The gift-giving was in partnership with the Officers’ Ladies Club 6 headed by Emma Gustilo. It was supported by the following:
* Iloilo Police Provincial Office – canned goods, three boxes of noodles, one sack of rice
* Officers Ladies Club – 96 boxes of vitamins (syrup) and 18 boxes of ascorbic acid.
The PRO-6 itself shelled out three sacks of rice, 106 bags of health kits, 106 packs of biscuits, 76 gallons of alcohol, 106 pieces of facemasks and 106 pairs of slippers.
“This is our own way of reaching out and helping our underprivileged brothers and sisters especially in this time of pandemic” said Pamuspusan.
The SOS Children Village is a global federation that works to protect and care for children who have lost custody or are at risk of losing custody. They have been in the Philippines since 1967.
The SOS Children’s Village consists of 12 family homes, the village director’s house, a community house, and necessary administrative buildings.
There is an SOS Kindergarten with four classrooms and a multi-purpose hall and can be attended by up to 100 children both from the SOS Children;s Village and from the neighborhood.
At SOS Kindergarten Iloilo, courses for the local inhabitants, especially for girls and women, are held in the evenings
This institution also operates an SOS Social Center, which includes a day-care center and a room for medical treatment. Children of working mothers are taken care of and essential medical care is provided to the local community./PN
