http://www.bacolodcity.gov.ph/
The Welcome Home lies in between Talisay and Bacolod City. Bacolod City is the main city of Negros Occidental, an island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Known as the City of Smiles, it holds a festival called MassKara every year - originally organised to relieve an economic depression for the area in 1981.
The Welcome Home houses, at the time of our trip, seven families. The adults of which are deaf mutes. The purpose behind the home is to bring people out of the slums and into a place where they can develop their own livelihoods.
To install lights at the Welcome Home Village for the Deaf, Talisay. Installation included the school building and twenty-five homes.
Welcome Home Village, Talisay
School building complete; seven homes completed; lights installed to the main meeting gazebo area.
Peace Village, Sagay
Two school classrooms completed; two rooms in the Youth Centre building fitted with the remaining lights.
Both villages are under the direction of Couples For Christ's Gawad Kalinga project. After completing the necessary buildings in the Welcome Home Village we were left with extra kit. After inspecting another needy Gawad Kalinga community in the north of the island the work schedule was adapted to include this school and utilise the remaining equipment.
Peter Genet
Adam Larking
Chris Larking
Sue Larking
Jean Mugridge
Roger Mugridge
Andrew Noble
Mike Noble
Michelle Stewart
Roger Mugridge's General Report on Lights For Learning and the Philippine Trip of 2007
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Trip Recordings
Interview with Santiago Franco, Project Director of the Welcome Home Village, Talisay, Philippines. Adam Larking talks to Santiago about the issues the community is facing.
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Pre Trip Interview
The Pre-Philippines Trip Podcast, with Roger Mugridge and Adam Larking.