Sunday, March 9, 2008

San Diego Executive Lions Club Visit

San Diego Executive Lions Club (San Diego,CA,USA) President George Folwarski, together with Vice President Alex Quinto and Director Tim Mendez, visited Nayon ng Kabataan Center in Mandaluyong City, Philippines on March 8.

Nayon ng Kabataan(Children's Village) is where the streetchildren center co-managed by the Lions Streetchildren Foundation, Inc.(LSFI) and Department of Social Welfare & Development(DSWD) is located.The partnership between the LSFI & DSWD started in 2001 during the building of the streetchildren center funded by LSFI thru a grant from Lions Club International Foundation (LCIF).The center houses 50-70 children aged 7-17 yrs old.In 2006, LSFI built a livelihood and skills training center to help the streetchildren and the other 150 children-clients inside the Nayon ng Kabataan learn gainful skills to enable them to be prepared when they join back the mainstream of the society after they are discharged from the center at the age of 18.

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