Marking its 50th year, nongovernment organization Tahanan Outreach Projects and Services, Inc. renews its commitment to assist children and families in Sta. Ana, Manila.
“As we celebrate our golden year, we move on to meet new challenges. We would like to reinvent TOPS as a learning center, and implement new programs to be of better service to the community,” says TOPS president Valerie G. Agrava.
Agrava is the grand niece of the late Justice Corazon Agrava who presided over and led women lawyers from the Judicial and Domestic Relations Court in creating a shelter that operates on a principle of tracing the roots of juvenile delinquency and preventing it through comprehensive and integrated human development.
TOPS aims to provide assistance to children through youth-servicing and childcare projects funded by concerned citizens, organizations, funding agencies, and business corporations.
Currently, the group maintains the Liwanag ng Tahanan Headstart program for pre-schoolers (aged 3-4) and free, computer-aided tutorial classes that help assist high school students on English, Math, and Science subjects.
“Scheduled to open next year, we will be putting up a formal school, starting with a kindergarten, and work our way to the grade levels, in accordance with the DepEd K-12 curriculum,” shares Agrava.
“Moreover, TOPS will be helping learners with special needs by offering Special Education classes.”
