2019

Rose CGI continues educational assistance to youth in Cebu City,Philippines.
From June 2019 we will be supporting 50 youth in reaching their educational goals.
It is our privilege to be working with them.

We at Rose CGI are continuing our work with children in the Philippines. As of May 2017 we are sponsoring 43 children to attend school, 10 more than last year.
The following photos of our students and myself were taken at the shelter of The Cebu City Task Force on Street Children in Cebu City in March 2017.

We continue to work with our long time facilitator Mr Redentor Betito
He is the Executive Director, Cebu City Commission for the Welfare and Protection of Children and The Children of Cebu Foundation. A wonderful man who has dedicated his work for the well being of the children of Cebu.

Updated to 2017

Hi, a lot has happened since the last post here.
In 2015, 2016 and until 2017, Rose CGI has continued (under the radar so to speak) to support The Chiildren of Cebu Foundation and the Cebu City Task Force for Street Children.
We love our field work and are dedicated to the children but unfortunately we are not so good at promoting our work. With regards to helping more children, hopefully we can start to promote our work from now.

April 2016,

Rose CGI's 2016 batch of sponsored Cebu City students ( total of 32 now) along with Redentor Benito, Director of the NGO: Cebu City Task Force for Street Children and Executive Director, Cebu City Commission for the Welfare and Protection of Children
I coordinate all my activities in liaison with Reden and the Commission.

March 21, 2015

Today we had our annual meeting with our Cebu high school group that Rose CGI sponsors. Good to see them doing well in school and healthy. Great kids.

From June 2013, Rose CGI has had the pleasure of sponsoring the high school education of the above students. Having graduated from the Sidewalk Education Project, they are now attending high school.

Rarely in a children's food program are successful conclusions announced. However we at Rose CGI have such an announcement. After cooking and serving more than 10,000 lunches for children attending "Sidewalk Education" classes in Cebu City, Philippines, it has been announced that from June, the Philippine National Government will initiate a nation wide lunch program for children living in poverty. Bravo and thank you to President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino

We had a good turnout on November 15. With the fundraiser in Tokyo and a donation from a kind Toronto gentleman, Rose CGI will be able to continue the Cebu Lunch Project. I will be off to the Philippines on Dec. 15 to continue Rose CGI's field work.

Rose CGI and Cebu City Street Children Task Force lunch program (10 photos) Today we began a 3 month pilot lunch feeding program for 50 kids who live of all places in a cemetary.

August 17, My NPO, Rose CGI will begin a lunch feeding program for 50 kids aged 3 ~5 in Cebu, Philippines. These kids are from very poor families. This one meal will probably be the only food they get each day. Will try to get the project to continue till end of 2012. Wish us luck with the funding.

Rose CGI and I are pleased at our new affiliation and support of the NPO, Tabang Sugbu Karon Inc. in Cebu, Philippines. Their Mission: To advocate the welfare of the poor and champion the cause of displaced communities in central Philippines, most especially in Cebu, by cooperating with the Local Government, Private Sectors to identify, plan and implement projects meeting their material, social, economic, moral and spiritual needs.

Whew! 9 pm here in Manila ( August 8 ) and just finished for the day. Started 12 hours ago by trying to find any stocks of bread, noodles, rice or veges and water. Hard to find. so I send runners around saying I'd give them 100 pesos if they got enough stock for 10 people. They were almost swimming thru the streets but throughout the day we fed about 80 kids and adults and about 40 last nite. Great great feeling! Nothing beats it. Although toward the end of tonite we had to resort to buying rice meals at Jollibee which is the the local McDonalds type of fast food as other stocks had run out. The flooding continues and at one point I was wading up to my waist. Guess I'll have to throw out those shorts and shirt. Don't know what they may be contaminated with. Now is the time to sit back after a nice long shower, cold water only as elec is for essential use only like elevators which is good as I'm on the 33rd floor. It's brandy and ( warm ) mango juice time. Never tasted better!

Spent the last 3 hours ( August 7 ) organizing a makeshift soup kitchen for the street people around my condo, Their shanty homes flooded out. It breaks my heart to see the little children shivering in wet clothes and nowhere to go. I bought out a convenience store's supply of bread and noodles and distributed them. Will try to get a little more organized tomorrow. I can't bring myself to take photos so I will add this from the BBC. Some people like this man have lost everything.

Arrived in Manila, Philippines on August 2, 2012 for 3 weeks of work for my NPO Rose CGI. I was just in time to be caught up in 2 typhoons that have left more than 50% of the city flooded. It is real bad. Rain continues. BBC photo.

Rose CGI sponsors an Art and Photography club at the DEAF School.

Award winning short film - Chicken a la Carte

Rose Sessions II, November 11, 2010

Rose CGI held Rose Sessions II, a fundraising event at What the Dickens in Ebisu, Tokyo on November 11, 2010.

Fundraising Event in Tokyo June 10

Batang Pinangga ( Beloved Child ) group home for neglected children: Cebu, Philippines

Butch & Anne of Batang Pinangga

It was a pleasure to introduce Rosei CGI and myself to Butch and his wife Anne, who manage the group home in Carmen, Cebu. They care for 28 neglectled and abused children. Rose CGI has begun to liasion and will soon support Batang Pinaggna.
A wonderful and caring couple.

Golden Links College

Herman, RoseCGI, Rekha, GLC, Robert, RoseCGI


Mr. Vic Hao Chen, founder GLC


Rose CGI is proud to be associated with and soon to support Golden Links College, an institution established by the Theosophical Society in the Philippines.The vision of the school is "to create an education system in which individuals can discover the core values of their lives for themselves, free from fear, coercion and prejudice. Through innovative teaching methods that respect and nurture the individuality and creativity of students, it attempts to integrate the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual aspects of their growth in a well-rounded programme. Teaching students to embrace their common humanity and to recognize their place in the web of life, the school strives to honour many faiths. It holds the conviction that individuals who are at peace with themselves will ultimately create a world at peace. In short, the school is an experiment in transformative education. http://www.theosophy.ph/goldenlinkcollege.html