Hope: An Exhibit
Facilitators Coco and Benji Belgica (middle) with
DSWD social workers
Allied Arts under Benji Belgica and his son, Coco held an exhibit for the teen residents of Home for the Girls. It was attended by some of the girls themselves and social workers from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
A display of flowers and birds
The exhibit featured the works that the girls made from a series of workshops facilitated by Benji. One of them said that she enjoyed doing the workshops and advised girls her age to study art. The girl, whose name is withheld, wants to use her art in order to help others who are like her, who are victims of abuse. "I want to be a social worker someday," she said.
The beauty of nature through the
strokes of a girl
Judith Tanate, OIC and head of the Home for Girls said that the center houses girls who were sexually and emotionally abused. "They are girls who are in need of special protection -- the neglected and abandoned, too. The house provides protective custody as well as temporary shelter," she said.
The exhibit culminated last June 30.