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Daughter of Charity

Hospicio de San Jose
Ayala Bridge, Quiapo,
Manila 1000, Philippines
Tel. Nos. 7342366 to 68
Fax No. 734-2366

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HOSPICIO SAN JOSE

BRIEF HISTORY

Hospicio de San Jose is HOME to more than three hundred people of varied age and needs from cradle to twilight years. Two-thirds of its population, abandoned by their families, seek for temporary/permanent shelter. Since its foundation in October 1778 Hospicio de San Jose has been attending to the urgent needs of indigent and mentally/physically handicapped. Responding to the needs of the poor for education, a formal education instruction is being offered. Challenged by the realities around Hospicio a formalized outreach program was organized favouring the slum areas of Quiapo. San Miguel and other diversified areas sharing with them its facilities, material resources and most especially its Catholic Education.

From its foundation to the present, Hospicio has been recognized as a Catholic Welfare Institution. Since 1865 it has been managed by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and presently governed by a Board of Directors under the chairmanship of the Archbishop of Manila.

VISION/MISSION

Hospicio de San Jose, as a Catholic Welfare Institution, envisions a transformed and empowered church of the poor where the young and elderly coming from diversified and marginalized families and communities find a HOME.

Sensitive to the signs of the times and responsive to the call of the Church, Hospicio de San Jose is committed to serve the abandoned young and old, helping them experience quality life and become agents of Social Transformation.

OBJECTIVES

To provide wholistic programs for Total Human Development and Christian Values Formation designed for empowerment of personnel and clientele group.

To design, develop and sustain innovative programs, services and curriculum to improve the quality of life of the poor.

To work for the promotion of the integrity of God's creation especially on issues dealing with the conversion, renewal and social transformation of the environment.

To provide a welcoming family to children and elderly deprived of their own.

PROGRAMS AREAS

RESIDENTIAL CARE

Abandoned, orphan neglected, abused, special children/youth (mentally/physically handicapped) and elderly people are provided with a holistic approach for family life formation. Included are children/youth with parents for temporary shelter.

ADOPTION

A socico-legal process of providing a permanent family to a child whose parents have voluntarily relinquished parental authority over the child. It is for children who cannot be reared by their biological parents and who need and can benefit from new and permanent family ties.

EDUCATION

Basic and Special Education is provided to children and youth. The program also extends to its services to indigent children living within the vicinity of die institution.

PHYSICAL THERAPY AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM

These are rehabilitation and developmental services to our Clientele, specifically, the children/youth with special needs and Elderlies, through physical and occupational therapy geared towards the attainment of their fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and economic usefulness of which they are capable.

CRISIS INTERVENTION

(HSJ -Tahan Center)

A twenty-four continuous confidential service geared toward protecting, caring for, rehabilitating intervening in crisis situations such as

• run-away children/youth

• stranded individuals

• battered wives 1 sexually abused children/youth

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Provides a comprehensive program to children of indigent families living within the areas of the institution. It ensures education, nutrition, socio-cultural growth, trainings and values formation that would strengthen family life and community development.

PASTORAL CARE

Provides opportunity for the residents to experience richness in their spiritual, socio-cultural aspects through celebration, catechesis, community building and human formation, and to promote ecological awareness and social consciousness.