Kalipay Negrense Foundation

Letter from the President

What makes you happy?
For some, happiness is achieving life goals... or owning a dream house, a dream car, and travelling to dream destinations. Others find happiness in simple things such as having fun and meaningful time with family... or eating a favourite dish... or receiving a heart-warming text from a friend. I’m sure that like me, you experience happiness in various shades and forms and that you consider yourself blessed for having experienced them. But do you know that there are children whose ideas of happiness will break your heart?

What is Kalipay?

Kalipay Negrense Foundation Inc., is a non-profit foundation working for the causes of disadvantaged children – the homeless, physically and sexually abused, malnourished, out of school and special children. It hopes to break the cycle of hopelessness in the lives of disadvantaged children by providing shelter and food, health care and counseling and introducing them to education. The image of homeless, hopeless people who work and live on the streets is a familiar sight. Forced on the street by spirit – destroying poverty and family dysfunction – the ones who suffer the most are the children.

Kalipay Negrense Foundation Inc. was conceptualized by Ms. Anna C. Balcells and some friends in 2007 and was established as an urgent and concrete response to the growing number of abused and abandoned children in Negros Occidental.

Our Goal

No child should be on the streets,
No child should be hungry,
No child should be denied
No child should be denied education and
No child should be subjected to violence

The Children We Help

Homeless
Malnourished
Sexually Abused
Physically Abused
Out-of-Shool Children
Special Children

We support all disadvantaged children regardless of their religion, gender, race or ethnicity.

Miracle Stories

Jemma

I was living in the streets, a rugby addict. My father was dead. My mother a prostitute. At a very young age my siblings and I were sold in the flesh trade by relatives. Phil found me and took care of me. Teachers said I was hopeless. The "rugby" probably fried my brain already. Phil and Cecilia of Haven Home never gave up. Against all odds I graduated with honors in high school. Earlier I ret [ ... ]

Lisa

She hung upside down weeping as pain ripped through her back as her uncle beat her. The frail malnourished 5-year-old child dressed in rags and badly in need of a bath had yet again failed to bring enough money home from a day's work begging on the streets of Bacolod City, and knew she would be punished. Her cousin had molested her, her mother was a drug addict and a prostitute, and her fa [ ... ]

Rosa

In 1992, When Rosa was 10 years old, her father, in one of his fits of madness as an alcoholic, tied her and her two brothers to a tree to burn them alive. As the father went away to get matches, one of her brothers broke loose and shouted at her to run. She refused. “I just stood there. After so much physical abuse, I told myself I would much rather die than live another day such as this,” [ ... ]