Our programs

From immediate care to lasting capability.

The work responds to urgent needs while building the skills, confidence, relationships, and opportunities that help people move forward.

Ako Ang Saklay volunteers distributing aid in a disaster-affected rural community

Disaster relief

Reach people where crisis happens.

Teams bring practical relief to disaster-affected communities. Recovery support can include psychological first aid and connections to livelihood training so emergency assistance becomes a bridge toward stability.

Emergency aidPsychological first aidRecovery pathways
Children sharing a meal in the Ako Ang Saklay feeding program; faces are blurred for privacy

Feeding program

A shared meal can restore more than hunger.

Community feeding serves nutritious meals to public-school children, seniors, hospital patients, persons deprived of liberty, people experiencing homelessness, and neighbors in need. Recovered materials describe HAPAG—Hain ng Pagasa—and the current HABAG at MALASAKIT initiative: meals offered with compassion, relationship, and hope.

ChildrenSeniorsCommunity meals
Participants preparing mushroom growing bags during an Ako Ang Saklay livelihood project

Livelihood projects

Training that can become income.

Livelihood activities include baking, candle making, organic farming, and mushroom production. The work especially encourages women and young farmers to value the land and build community and family farming. Participants learn practical skills and may receive starter materials for small income-generating work.

Women and youthFamily farmingSkills training
Ako Ang Saklay recovery community members in a group activity

Recovery and reintegration

Safe, evidence-informed support.

Ako Ang Saklay’s work with persons who have used drugs helped shape its community-based drug rehabilitation program, including support in detention settings. Care, livelihood opportunity, family and community participation, human dignity, shared mission, and shared responsibility guide recovery and reintegration.

Community-basedReintegrationShared responsibility
Students learning in an Ako Ang Saklay-supported classroom; faces are blurred for privacy

Education and scholarships

Learning should not depend on distance or poverty.

Scholarships, tutorials, formation, and accommodation support young people who want to study, including learners from remote and tribal communities who otherwise travel long distances to reach school.

ScholarshipsSummer tutorialAccommodation

Other services

A whole-person response.

Youth and women development

Leadership development, counseling, parenting support, retreats, formation, and empowerment.

PWD advocacy

Rights, accessibility, opportunity, mobility, and empowerment support, plus coordination with partners providing wheelchairs and prostheses.

Saklay Centre

Short-term sanctuary, assessment, and referral for people who need specialized protection or care.

Medical services

Community medical checkups, health support, and vaccination activities for underserved groups.

Community dialogue and formation

Listening circles, prayer, retreats, values formation, and shared community life that recognize every person’s equal dignity and voice.

Justice, peace, and care for creation

Advocacy and practical action for social protection, the common good, and responsible stewardship of land and community resources.

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