Pangarap Foundation, Inc

In 1989, a group of Pasay City housewives with the Ina Anak, Inc., The Ladies of Charity of Pasay, and The Brothers of the Sons of Mary, Health of the Sick started a Drop-In Shelter for street children near Cartimar in Pasay City. Their beneficiaries were the street children around the city and those coming from the reclamation area where The Mall of Asia and other establishments are now. They provided a place for them to have dinner, take a bath, watch TV, sleep, and have breakfast after which they went back outside. They had a housefather and mother to look after them and later a tutor to give them a class before going out. Eventually, they said that they would like to leave the street and be able to go to school. Fortunately, a big ancestral house along Taft Avenue was offered and they called the project Pangarap (Dream). We were elated because if these children can still dream they are alive and with hope. So Pangarap Shelter for street children was born with a Drop-In Shelter ...