New Faith Family Children's Home

The Children's Home has 26 children ranging from ages 2months to 13 years. The are brought to the Home by the DSDW (social workers organization). It was started 2 years ago by Jeff Long when his daughter asked him why they couldn't do more for the street kids. Jeff Long works at Faith Academy, a boarding high school for children of missionaries (many are doing work in places where there is no good place for education). Him and his family are from the US but now consider the Philippines to be their permanent home.

The home has not been able to get through the paperwork of making the home a place where you can adopt children yet. But they hope it will soon be approved for that. In the meantime, it is a home and the children seem to love it here. Often on Saturdays "Uncle Jeff" picks all the kids up and brings them to play in a soccer tournament, or to the movies, or to his son's college basketball game.

Jeff Long also started a school in the community for the kids to go to and also invited more kids from the community. He has a ten year plan to transform the community around the Home. He put in a sink and shower for anyone to use (they often re-use bathwater several times) and he hopes to get a well built so they can have clean drinking water. The clinic we helped stock, with a dentist and doctor is part of that plan, too.