PREDA: Campaigning for Children for 50 Years

PREDA: Campaigning for Children for 50 Years

“It is not often that a charitable organisation gets the opportunity to celebrate 50 years of service to the Filipino people,” writes Columban Missionary Fr Shay Cullen, founder of the PREDA Foundation. This year is the golden anniversary of the founding...
Greatest Depravity: 12-year-olds sold as ‘Baby Brides’

Greatest Depravity: 12-year-olds sold as ‘Baby Brides’

Why are Philippine senators and members of the House of Representatives delaying the completion and passing of vital historical laws that will protect children presently at risk of being victims of sexual abuse and sold as ‘baby brides’ for the sexual...
Highlights of Preda Foundation’s work in 2020

Highlights of Preda Foundation’s work in 2020

Many children saved As many as a hundred children were saved and recovered at the five Preda homes for abused children in 2020, a happy record of healing and empowerment. One of the important highlights during 2020 is that all the children and the staff have...
Discovering Human Dignity

Discovering Human Dignity

When I see the newly arrived children – all victims of human right violations and sexual abuse – healing and recovering in our Preda Foundation home and striving to be “good,” to be a “better person”, somehow thinking they are “bad,” I and the Preda...