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Meet a few Recipient Families
Four families in the town of Carcar show us their homes.  Take a look and see why your help is so desperately needed in the poorest parts of the Philippines.   Unlike their counterparts in other countries who receive financial help from the government in the form of food stamps, welfare checks and low income housing, these families have to fend for themselves as they struggle to survive.  There are no government subsidies.  They can only rely on each other... and on the kindness and generosity of people like you.


Carcar City, May 2008

 


The Eborda Family


Meet Candida Eborda of Carcar City. Candida and her husband, Berto, have 6 children. In the photo, Candida is standing in front of her home with 2 of her children. Her husband and the other 4 children are out working in the fields. The Eborda family of 8 live cramped in this tiny house.
  
 
                                                                                               

 
 
 
 

The Villarin Family
 
This is the Villarin residence in Carcar City where Elmer and Imelda Villarin live with their have 3 children. This small crudely built cottage is their home.
 
 
 



     
                      


 
 
 
The Parba Family
 
Here is Pedencia Parba standing in front of her house. She and her husband, Mario, have 3 children. Mario, husband, is out in the fields working.
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                      
                                                                                                       


 


The de la Torre Family

Here is Susana dela Torre with some of her children. This is the house she lives in with her children and her husband, Vicente. They all live together in these cramped quarters.