vision
Bantay Bata 163 envisions to be Asia’s best media-based child protection and welfare organization providing comprehensive and integrated programs and services
Bantay Bata 163 envisions to be Asia’s best media-based child protection and welfare organization providing comprehensive and integrated programs and services
mission
Bantay Bata 163 is committed to create and provide a safe, nurturing and loving environment where children can develop and realize their full potential and become productive members of the society
Bantay Bata 163 – Davao was established in August 2000 through the assistance of Cooperacion Española and Dia Solidario of Union Fenosa and the Presidential Social Fund. This is the first and the only BB 163 center in Mindanao and outside of Manila.
It is the only organization in Mindanao that offers an accessible hotline that caters to children in need of special protection, twelve (12) hours a day and five (5) days a week. This makes it easier for children to seek help when in need. It is also the only recognized non-government organization deputized to rescue abused children.
It offers its programs and services for children ages 0-12 years old who are in crises and in need of special protection. Consultation and referral are provided for 13-18 years old. Its primary clients are those residing within the three (3) districts of Davao City. Being the only Bantay Bata center in Mindanao, it has also assisted abused children coming from Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Agusan del Sur, Compostela Valley, North Cotabato and Zamboanga del Sur.
It offers its programs and services for children ages 0-12 years old who are in crises and in need of special protection. Consultation and referral are provided for 13-18 years old. Its primary clients are those residing within the three (3) districts of Davao City. Being the only Bantay Bata center in Mindanao, it has also assisted abused children coming from Davao del Sur, Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental, Agusan del Sur, Compostela Valley, North Cotabato and Zamboanga del Sur.
Bantay Bata 163 Davao (BB 163) provides a holistic intervention for the children of Mindanao. It offers Child Protection Services, Residential Services and Advocacy program. This menu of intervention serves as both protective interventions of the rights of the child to live in a secured environment and preventive measures from the hostilities around him/her.
12 Hour Hotline Service
The hotline service of BB 163 is the original main intervention of the organization in protection the children. This was established to accommodate and respond to reports related to child abuse, provide counseling to cases involving children in difficult circumstance and accept donations for the organization.
Rescue
Reported cases in the hotline, which are assessed to pose high risk to a child, are referred for rescue. The primary objective of the rescue operation is to effect the temporary immediate removal of the child from the abusive environment and to facilitate his/her placement in a licensed child-caring institution.
It is important to note that during rescue operations, crises counseling, medico-legal and legal assistance are being undertaken by assigned licensed social workers.
Home Visits
Reported cases that are assessed to pose low to moderate risk for the child and are within the jurisdiction of the Bantay Bata 163 are scheduled for home visit. This aims to validate the reported abuses, assess the circumstance of the child involved, provide therapeutic services and plan levels of intervention. The long-term goals, on the other hand, are to educate and advocate for the rights of the child and more importantly, to alleviate the condition of the child from dysfunctional to normal functioning.
Walk-in Desk
The organization also provides face-to-face counseling and immediate assistance to clients.
Medical Assistance
Medical assistance is being given to clients in the form of referral to medical institutions and professional services, provision of medicines and airing stories on ABS-CBN media outlets to raise funds for the treatment of indigent and sick children from 0-12 years old.
CHILDREN'S HOME - DAVAO
Bantay Bata 163 lives on the principle that the family is still the best environment for children in need of special protection. Thus, children rescued from abuses, neglect and abandonment are given temporary family environment in the Children’s Home.
For the past seven (7) years of providing protective custody and temporary shelter to distressed children in Davao City, BB 163 Children’s Home has remained to be consistent in the provision of quality care and services. Since it’s operation, the Children’s Home became partners with the local government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the plight of providing interventions to children in need of special protection. It serves as a ray of hope to children victims of physical and sexual abuses, abandonment, neglect and other forms of abuses.
For the past seven (7) years of providing protective custody and temporary shelter to distressed children in Davao City, BB 163 Children’s Home has remained to be consistent in the provision of quality care and services. Since it’s operation, the Children’s Home became partners with the local government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the plight of providing interventions to children in need of special protection. It serves as a ray of hope to children victims of physical and sexual abuses, abandonment, neglect and other forms of abuses.
Admission
The Children’s Home, which is ideal to house 25 children at a time, is presently paying homage to 42 children. This is due to the great demand of taking custody of children in need of shelter.
Discharges
The stay of the children in the center is temporary in nature. Thus, the resident social workers exert all means possible to prepare the psychosocial and economic functioning of the biological family and relatives in the event that the child returns to them. As experienced, the discharge process has always been a difficult and tedious process. But with the center’s collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the City Social Services Development Office (CSSDO) the reintegration of the children back to their families and the community has been effective. To date, the center has reintegrated more than half of its rescued children to their families and relatives.
Recreational and Social Development
Children in the center have experienced both developmental activities and fun in a lot of activities. Some of the activities enjoyed by the children from August 2000 to present are:
* Creative Art activities such basic painting, voice and dance lesson, crafts and art making;
* Sports activities such Taekwondo, swimming, basketball, volleyball, biking, rappelling and badminton
* Values Formation
* Social integration such as on-the-job exposure at a local fast food chain, field trips and excursions;
* Participating in the advocacy of the coin bank;
* Educational Services
Developmental Therapies
J The child with hearing impairment is receiving a sign language training every once a week, aside from the in-school lessons everyday; and,
J Three (3) children with special needs are getting continuous physical /occupational therapy, behavioral management and speech therapy .
The Children’s Home, which is ideal to house 25 children at a time, is presently paying homage to 42 children. This is due to the great demand of taking custody of children in need of shelter.
Discharges
The stay of the children in the center is temporary in nature. Thus, the resident social workers exert all means possible to prepare the psychosocial and economic functioning of the biological family and relatives in the event that the child returns to them. As experienced, the discharge process has always been a difficult and tedious process. But with the center’s collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the City Social Services Development Office (CSSDO) the reintegration of the children back to their families and the community has been effective. To date, the center has reintegrated more than half of its rescued children to their families and relatives.
Recreational and Social Development
Children in the center have experienced both developmental activities and fun in a lot of activities. Some of the activities enjoyed by the children from August 2000 to present are:
* Creative Art activities such basic painting, voice and dance lesson, crafts and art making;
* Sports activities such Taekwondo, swimming, basketball, volleyball, biking, rappelling and badminton
* Values Formation
* Social integration such as on-the-job exposure at a local fast food chain, field trips and excursions;
* Participating in the advocacy of the coin bank;
* Educational Services
Developmental Therapies
J The child with hearing impairment is receiving a sign language training every once a week, aside from the in-school lessons everyday; and,
J Three (3) children with special needs are getting continuous physical /occupational therapy, behavioral management and speech therapy .
Psychological/Group Processing
The children’s home is now implementing a HEALING PROGRAM for all the children in the center. Pre-psychological evaluation is done a month after the child’s admission as results are necessary in the treatment and intervention plan. Post-evaluation has been regularly complied to assess children’s preparedness prior to discharge plan.
Legal Desk
BB 16 provides free legal advice/services to indigent victims of child abuse through mobilization of volunteer lawyers. A total of 174 clients were assisted and resulted to 152 legal cases. To date, there are 26 cases resolved and 118 on-going court cases. Legal services are provided by the members of the Davao Lady Lawyers Association and the Integrated Bar of the Philippines – Davao Chapter.
Being a media-based organization, BB 163 has the advantage of having an organized production unit for its advocacy programs. It aims to heighten public awareness, responsibility and community involvement in child protection and welfare. Such production unit uses both the television and radio to strengthen its information and education campaign on ensuring the rights of the Filipino child. BB 16 uses the radio and television facilities of ABS-CBN Davao.
For the last seven (7) years BB 163 Davao has aired success stories and other developmental productions in the local shows of Maayong Buntag Mindanaw and TV Patrol Mindanao and in the national spot at the Bantay Bata 163 Children’s Village aired at the ABS CBN News Channel. It also maintains a regular radio spot over at the DXAB featuring topics on parenting, legal, medical and resource mobilization concerns of the organization.
BB 163 Davao has also led the production of feature presentations over at the ABS-CBN News Channel and The Filipino Channel – the international cable channel of ABS-CBN aired over North America and the Middle East.
For the last seven (7) years BB 163 Davao has aired success stories and other developmental productions in the local shows of Maayong Buntag Mindanaw and TV Patrol Mindanao and in the national spot at the Bantay Bata 163 Children’s Village aired at the ABS CBN News Channel. It also maintains a regular radio spot over at the DXAB featuring topics on parenting, legal, medical and resource mobilization concerns of the organization.
BB 163 Davao has also led the production of feature presentations over at the ABS-CBN News Channel and The Filipino Channel – the international cable channel of ABS-CBN aired over North America and the Middle East.
As part of the organization’s advocacy program, weekly visits to the different barangays in Davao are being conducted. The visits aims to hold informal consultations and discussions on the different issues affecting the children. The informal discussions ranges from, parenting, child protection and welfare and even health issues.
DAVAO CITY
The community plays a vital role in organizations such as the Bantay Bata 163. The success or failure of an organization depends on the response of the community on the cause being pursued by the organization. The community serves as a social, financial and moral support system of every organization, and indeed Bantay Bata 163 is blessed with such holistic support from the Davao City Community.
Davao City has overwhelmingly supported all the projects of the organization in the last three years. Most of the support given has greatly helped the daily operations of the organizations. The Barya Mo, Buhay KO project where coin banks are strategically placed in government’s offices, private firms, commercial and business establishments, and other public places where tremendously supported by the people of Davao. In fact, over the last three (3) years, there has already been an increasing request for additional coin banks to be placed in establishments. Another heart-warming response of the Davao City community is through the market vendors. Once a week, the vendors in the leading public markets in the city donate meat, vegetables and other food items to the Children’s Home. This has greatly helped the sustainability of the Children’s Home. The organization has also been fortunate to be the beneficiary of projects of socio-civic organizations such as various concerts, live shows and other special events.
These are just few of the support that the organization has been receiving from the community. There are still those private institutions and individuals who wish to remain unnamed who were always at the backs of the Filipino child to move on and live in a child he/she truly deserves.
With such support, Bantay Bata 163 is more than inspired to protect and pursue the rights of the Filipino Child – the rights of the Dabawenyo Child!
Davao City has overwhelmingly supported all the projects of the organization in the last three years. Most of the support given has greatly helped the daily operations of the organizations. The Barya Mo, Buhay KO project where coin banks are strategically placed in government’s offices, private firms, commercial and business establishments, and other public places where tremendously supported by the people of Davao. In fact, over the last three (3) years, there has already been an increasing request for additional coin banks to be placed in establishments. Another heart-warming response of the Davao City community is through the market vendors. Once a week, the vendors in the leading public markets in the city donate meat, vegetables and other food items to the Children’s Home. This has greatly helped the sustainability of the Children’s Home. The organization has also been fortunate to be the beneficiary of projects of socio-civic organizations such as various concerts, live shows and other special events.
These are just few of the support that the organization has been receiving from the community. There are still those private institutions and individuals who wish to remain unnamed who were always at the backs of the Filipino child to move on and live in a child he/she truly deserves.
With such support, Bantay Bata 163 is more than inspired to protect and pursue the rights of the Filipino Child – the rights of the Dabawenyo Child!
BB Davao is in partnership with the Regional Offices of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Department of Health, the Department of Justice, Local Government Units, Non-Government Organizations and other socio-civic organizations to purse the upliftment of the welfare of the Filipino child.
National Government Agencies (DSWD, DILG, DOH, DOJ, DepEd)
City Government of Davao
Cooperacion Española
City Social Services and Development Office
Dia Solidario of Union Fenosa
Children’s Hour
Singapore Airlines
Socio-civic Organizations
Cause-oriented groups; and,Private institutions, establishments and business organizations.
It continues to be in the service of the Filipino child in their pursuit for a better world . . .
