Beginnings

                In 1993, socially aware and more privileged students from the De La Salle University started to come to Friendship Home to render voluntary services in the form of tutorial assistance, leisure and recreational activities to children of Friendship Home.  These are children who come from differing circumstances of poverty, need, abandonment, neglect and abuse.  From then on until the present, volunteer students have become a regular part of the Friendship Home Family.  A mutual learning experience has developed where on the one hand, the children are assisted by the volunteers to cope with or advance in their formal studies.  The volunteer students, on the other hand, learn to immerse themselves in the realities of the poor, and gain new insights about their own inner capacity to become more loving and compassionate to others.  

The opening of the Friendship Home Fr. Luis Amigó Building in February, 2000 provided the opportunity to further expand and enrich the nature and participation of volunteer students in the Friendship Home Family.  It has given rise to the Residencia Amigó, a place that will provide board and lodging accommodations to student volunteers who contribute to the education and continuing development of the children of Friendship Home.  It is also a place for transients and/or others looking for a place to stay and at the same time help fulfill a mission to support children in need.