For more than 25 years, the ANAK-Tnk family has been working night and day to save the poorest people in the streets and slums of Manila. Find here some stories of these heroes of resilience and hope: from those who help them in the field and from those who spread the word about the foundation’s work throughout the world.
Discover the story of Alex,
former street child and now a teacher at the foundation
Discover Nikky’s job,
social worker in our slum
community-based program
Tens of thousands children live alone in the streets of Metro Manila, the capital of the Philippines. ANAK-Tnk, today directed by Father Matthieu Dauchez, assisted by Gloria Recio, Charles and Elise Cruse, and a whole team of educators, comes to their rescue. The action of ANAK-Tnk is supported beyond the Philippines by different local groups in : France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore, Germany, Belgium, Australia… “They need your LOVE… We need your HELP!”
Community workers from the slums
Volunteers of international solidarity
Volunteers around the world
Macky, former street child
who has become a policeman!
“Everyone must ask themselves the question, have I learned to weep when I see a child who is hungry, a drugged child on the street, a child who has no home, a child who has been left behind, a child who has been abused, a child who is used by our society as a slave?”
Pope Francis
during his 2015 visit to the foundation in Manila
94 Kalayaan Avenue
Barangay Central
QUEZON CITY 1100
PHILIPPINES
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