Vision
Hope that can be felt.
To be a center of hope, healing, learning, and development for people facing crises due to poverty, health challenges, disasters, and life’s adversities.
About Ako Ang Saklay
A center of hope, healing, learning, and development.
We walk with people facing poverty, health challenges, disasters, and life’s adversities—then help turn care into practical next steps.
Our name
“I am the crutch.”
Ako Ang Saklay is a promise to support, accompany, and partner with people—not to define them by hardship, but to help create room for recovery, dignity, and self-determination.
The organization began as a volunteer center counseling orthopedic patients. Through mercy, compassion, and close partnerships, it grew into a broader support community for persons with disabilities, persons in recovery, seniors, women, children, youth, families in crisis, and disaster-affected communities.
Mission
Compassion with a practical shape.
We promote compassion, advocacy, respect, and empowerment for persons with disabilities while supporting communities, seniors, women, children, youth, and persons in recovery through disaster response, residential and community-based programs, technical-vocational education, livelihood training, values formation, and care.
Mission of solidarity
Faith that stands with the whole human family.
Rooted in the Claretian mission and the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, Ako Ang Saklay understands synodality as solidarity—walking with people who are poor, marginalized, physically excluded, or facing crisis.
The community defends human dignity, promotes social protection, and works for justice, peace, care for creation, and the inclusion, accessibility, and opportunity of persons with disabilities. Listening happens in a circle, at the same level of dignity, so every voice can be heard.
Prayer, shared responsibility, and service hold the community together. Inspired by Jesus and Mary’s compassion, the mission embraces people who are sick, imprisoned, without shelter, in recovery, living with disabilities, or affected by disaster, conflict, and crisis.
Our goal
Protection, rights, welfare, and pathways out of crisis.
To provide social protection and promote the rights and welfare of people and communities experiencing deep poverty and marginalization.
We advocate for poverty alleviation, healing, evidence-informed drug treatment and recovery, accessible opportunities, and compassionate community participation.
Partnership makes the work possible
Rooted locally. Connected widely.
Public records and recovered organization materials document collaboration with the Provincial Government of Nueva Ecija, Regional Trial Courts, DILG, DSWD, DTI, TESDA, health agencies, civil-society organizations, faith communities, private partners, volunteers, and individual supporters.