CRIBS is a charity organisation that takes care of abandoned babies and abused young children. CRIBS Foundation, Inc. is a non-government organisation that provides temporary shelter to abandoned, neglected, and
dependent children as well as a treatment, healing and recovery programs for sexually abused girls. Started in 1974 by two Lutheran
missionary wives who brought home two infants from the Reception and Study Child Centre of the Department of Social Welfare
and Development (DSWD), CRIBS was the first volunteer home in the Philippines. It is a private volunteer child-care organisation that tries
to help ease the problem of poverty and pitiable and desperate situations of the poor.
CRIBS is a very special charity. Here each child, whether an abandoned baby or a sexually abused young girl, is accompanied on a journey towards healing and recovery. Supporting CRIBS was a growing network of volunteers from all walks of life contributing their time, expertise and resources. FWA–UK has been an ardent supporter since 1989. Housed in a two-storey building, CRIBS undertakes two major areas of work:
- ‘Receiving Home’ for abandoned babies aged one day to four years. They also foster as many as 30 babies who are often in an extremely malnourished state.
- Concurrently, CRIBS maintains another home, referred to as ‘The Beginning,’ for 20-24 sexually abused and exploited female minors, ages six to thirteen. Aside from the two major works mentioned, CRIBS also run a child/ family sponsorship program in three squatter / slum areas in Metro Manila. FWA–UK’s help, no matter what amount, has gone a long way to save one child for the future good of our native land. At the time the Association supported this project, it can only afford £500.00 per annum.
Currently, CRIBS includes the following programmes in line with their mission to protect, recover, and rehabilitate neglected, abused, and abandoned children and women:
- Children’s Rights Orientation
- Reproductive Health Education (children, women)
- R.A. 9262 Orientation
- Gender Sensitivity Training
- Support Camp Formation
