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Programs:
1. Livelihood education - provides livelihood training for the less fortunate members of the parish community to empower
them and make them productive members of the society.
2. Micro-finance - this program aims at providing members of the parish community addtional capital for their "small
time" business ventures. Qualifying for the program entails that one has a business which is already at least a year
old.
3. Restorative Justice - this program aims at helping the inmates of the City Jail reclaim their dignity as human persons.
This is done thru jail visitations, organizing spiritual activities for them, conducting medical missions and organizing and
volunteering for in a jail study program.
4. Health - the parish has a clinic that offers services every Sunday. Every third Sunday of the month it conducts a free
FBS and cholesterol test. And at given moments of the year they conduct medical, dental and optical missions.
5. Scholarship - this program aims to provide financial and tutorial assistance to poor but deserving students of the
parish community.
6. Evening School - in partnership with Angelicum College, this program aims to help the out of school youth of the community
earn an elementary and high school diploma thru a non-formal system of education.
7. Feeding Program - every year the parish conducts a 6 month feeding program for the undernourished kids of the community.
Each feeding program has a maximum number of 50 participants.
8. Catholic Social Teaching formation - the social and development work of the parish will remain incomplete if it will
not be hinged on the teachings of the Catholic Church - here the members of the ministry undergo several trainings to deepen
their knowledge with regard to the Social Teachings of the Church.
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