Help support

50 children from homelessness

in Iloilo City, Philippines.

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Why donate?

Protect Lives

Reduce Homelessness

Change Lives

Educate

Every Donation Matters!

Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines is dedicated to providing quality facilities and personnel. Our personnel are committed to implementing hope-giving programs for the orphaned, abandoned, neglected, and vulnerable children through holistic formation to prepare them to become valuable members of society. As of February 2023, our facilities have been built, the personnel are trained, the permits are secured, and we are ready to welcome the first group. The photo you see above is our first outreach to the community in which school supplies were handed out to over 50 of the neighborhood children.

In order to make this all a reality, Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines is now embarking on a fundraising campaign to underwrite the cost of operating this home to serve the children. The estimated annual cost to care for the first 50 children is $200,000. By reaching our funding goal and donating to our organization we will be providing food, shelter, education, and medical attention.

Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines (CEOPH) a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit, is seeking funds to provide a compassionate, safe and nurturing home-environment where children are cared for and formed into valuable members of the community by providing quality facilities and personnel who are committed to give hope-giving programs for the orphaned, abandoned, neglected, vulnerable foundling, surrendered infants, and children through holistic formation, social-work interventions and services in order to prepare them for adoption, reformation and re-integration into families and society.

CEOPH Roadmap:

STEP 1 - Construction of the 14,500 square foot orphanage (Completed)
STEP 2 - Furnish the orphanage (Completed)
STEP 3 - Raise $200,000 to accommodate the first 50 children for 1 year. (Current Objective)
STEP 4 - Raise another $200,000 to make sure these children will be having room and board for another year.
STEP 5 - Raise $400,000 to expand the orphanage to host additional 50 children.
STEP 6 - To continue the work to accommodate more street children.

The Story of

St. Dominic orphanage

We provide abandoned children in Iloilo, Philippines a new home, education, and future.

The relevance of the new facility, called St. Dominic Children’s Home, is to respond to the need of an orphanage in Western Visayas, a region composed of six provinces with 16 component cities. This region has a limited number of institutions, particularly in Iloilo City itself.

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Our Story

Nonprofit Organization

Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines is a nonprofit organization founded by San Francisco retired businessman, Spencer Holeman. Following his 2019 visit to the City of Iloilo in the Philippines, he saw the great need to care for homeless street children.

Destroyed by fire

While in Iloilo, Mr. Holeman met with the Dominican Sisters, who formerly operated an orphanage for girls. Unfortunately, the orphanage ceased operating because it was destroyed by fire.

Working with the Sisters

Shortly after this visit, Spencer Holeman began working with the Sisters to rebuild a new orphanage which now is a beautiful 14,500 square-foot residential home able to care for 50 homeless children. In addition to providing a warm and caring environment where the children will live, their health care and educational needs will be met.

Young childrens

Deserve a future

We Believe Food, Shelter & Education Is Important

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St. Dominic Children’s Home, dedicated to serve the young street children, orphans, poor and abandoned children needs funding and through Children’s Empowerment of the Philippines is the only way to provide the stability and structure necessary to build a positive future for the most disadvantaged children through love, respect and security. Please join me as I am committed to seek out the means to make this project successful and find the resources needed to fill and open St. Dominic Children's Home.

There is nothing more important than helping those that cannot help themselves. The work that is being done to elevate children from neglect and poverty with the goal of providing them with the tools necessary to have better lives is most commendable. I hope everyone joins us in supporting the work of Children’s Empowerment Of the Philippines and spread the message to others of goodwill.

The St. Dominic Orphanage, is helping those children who are in need physically, emotionally, academically and spiritually. Staffed by the presence of the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary, the Orphanage is making a positive difference and impact in the lives of these youngsters. We continue to pray for these children and know the daily care they are receiving will help shape their future lives to become future and successful leaders one day.

As long as there are children in the streets there is never enough orphanages. Children’s empowerment will be that beacon of hope for the youth in the Philippines and nurture and support these kids to become change makers of the future.