TKPFI Goal
TKPFI’s main goal is to help young girls from traumatized backgrounds in their education, as well as in their spiritual, physical and mental well-being. The intent is to lift them from their brokenness and help them achieve their highest potential.
We Find & Fund
We Educate
We Provide Care
We Consult
We Provide formation
We Strengthen
Partnering with the Mother Butler Guild (MBG)
On November 13, 2019, TKPFI formally signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Mother Butler Guild. The signing made the TKPFI-MBG partnership official. Under the Agreement, both parties are agreed to support the TKPFI program with MBG members overseeing the TKPFI Sites as site Coordinators, and to act as guides of the Inengs as Love Enablers under the supervision of the TKPFI office headed by Amb. Henrietta T. de Villa and TKPFI National Executive Director Maricor T. de Villa. Signatories for the MBG were Amb. de Villa (MBG President) and Bishop Renaldo G. Evangeslita (MBG Spiritual Director), and witnessed by MBG National Executive Board members: Felicidad Calimbas, Edna Bolinao and Empie Bautista. For TKPFI signatories were Msgr. Jesus Romulo C. Ranada (TKPFI Vice Chairman), Consuelo A. Abaya (TKPFI Treasurer), and witnessed by TKPFI Trustees Nancy Abcede, Helen Malabrigo, and TKPFI National Executive Director Maricor T. de Villa.
TKPFI Profile
Profile of TKPFI Scholars
The TKPFI scholars or Inengs are mostly young girls ranging the ages of 5 to 14. They come from traumatized backgrounds. Ther are children of EJK (Extra Judicial Killing) victims, poor prison inmates, living a hand-to-mouth existence in slums, along railroad tracks. Some come from broken homes and are living with guardians, usually a grandmother or an aunt who are either too sick or too poor to provide proper guidance, supervision and most often, even love. The parents don’t hold steady jobs with monthly income of Pesos 10,000 or less.
Most of the Inengs did not have any formal schooling, let alone in private school. Though baptized as Catholics, they have had little or no Catholic training or values formation.
Profile of the TKPFI Site Coordinators
The TKPFI Site Coordinators are the program’s backbone. An MBG president of her diocese, as Site Coordinator who chooses the Love Enablers from among the MBG members of her diocese. There is a careful process of selection of Love Enablers that has to be followed.
The Site Coordinator monitors the progress of the Inengs in her site, handles the challenges, finances, and oversees the program’s implementation. Moreover, she acts as the conduit between her site and the TKPFI National Office. It is the Site Coordinator who reports directly to the TKPFI National Executive Director.
Profile of the TKPFI’s Love Enablers
The TKPFI Love Enablers are members of the MBG. Their role is to act as “second mothers” to the Inengs in their charge. It is the Love Enabler who directly monitors the Inengs in their schools in terms of grades, relationships with classmates and teachers, their needs in terms of clothing, transportation, meals. They also monitor the Inengs’ living conditions at home and how the Inengs’ studies are affected, noting any “red flags” which they are to bring to the attention of the Site Coordinator. The Love Enablers submit an annual progress report if their Inengs with their personal recommendations to their respective Site Coordinators.
The Love Enablers inguiding their Inengs must be firm but always compassionate, remembering they are not there to replace the parents, and must be equipped with an understanding heart yet also with prudence.
Finally, the Love Enablers must bring to their mission of looking after their Inengs the values practiced as a Mother Butler, humbly, lovingly, joyfully raising up Inengs in the name of Jesus.
