Kariton Empowerment Center, Inc.
Kariton Center aims at the rehabilitation and empowerment of street families by helping them to organize into a self-help group, and enable them to address more creatively and responsibly their situation.
Our Inspiration: MK: 24 -30
The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25 but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27 He said to her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.” 28 But she answered him, “Sir, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” 29 Then he said to her, “For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.” 30 So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Our Aspiration
To organize street dwelling families into a self-help group that may become a model and encourage others in the same situation to do the same.
Establish a cooperative livelihood programs that will enable to become responsible, self-reliant and contributing citizens to society
Our Beneficiaries
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Working together with these families collecting garbage for their everyday living was really a humbling and extraordinary experience for me. We had shared so much stories about life.
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My exposure with the Kariton Empowerment Center (KEC) led me to realize that my vocation in Religious Life is all about self-giving. When I accompanied the families collecting garbage around Quezon City, it taught me to be more humble, grateful, respectful and gentle to others.
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Kariton Empowerment Center, Inc. really empowers the street dwelling families, who have gradually become aware, opted and decided to be conscious about their dignity, their role in society as citizen of the local community and of the country at large, and honor as children of God.
