Some are disabled. Some are octogenarians. Even worse, perhaps, some are innocent of wrongdoing or were forced to own up to crimes in exchange for money to alleviate extreme poverty. Many are living in regret and asking for forgiveness. These are the people that society has labeled with numbers -- faceless, forgotten. In many ways, prisoners die before their time to a world they knew but which is now only a faint memory.
Hope is what Tan Yan Kee Foundation’s Hope Caravan, with volunteers from the Fortune Tobacco Corporation, brought to the New Bilibid Prison’s Medium and Minimum Detention Center inmates. With the message that they are not forgotten, volunteers provided counseling sessions as well as entertainment through songs and dance.
Hope is what Tan Yan Kee Foundation’s Hope Caravan, with volunteers from the Fortune Tobacco Corporation, brought to the New Bilibid Prison’s Medium and Minimum Detention Center inmates. With the message that they are not forgotten, volunteers provided counseling sessions as well as entertainment through songs and dance.
Prison Chaplain Msgr. Roberto Olaguer and Officer-in-Charge Gen. Antonio Cruz expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the help and concern of Hope Caravan and Tan Yan Kee Foundation. Aside from counseling and entertainment, Hope Caravan provided the following:
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