About Us

Rose Colored Glasses International

Our Opportunity to change lives together through Rose CGI’s Education Assistance Program.

Today’s Youth – Tomorrow’s Leaders

Rose CGI Brief History

2008: Rose CGI was incorporated as a non profit organization in Manila with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2008.
2008: Started assisting street children in Manila.
2009: Expanded assistance to a school for deaf children in
Palawan.
2011 - 2020: Began assistance in Cebu City in 2011, establishing a relationship with The Cebu City Task Force on Street Children focused on providing educational assistance to urban poor children.
2020 to 2022: Began COVID 19 Pandemic food aid assistance to residents in need on the island of Boracay.
2022 to present: Began Project Redeem.Rice. Provision, Education on Diseases and Efficient Emergency Management to residents on Boracay Island.
Started Weight of Life project which provides nutritious meals to the underweight/malnourished and stunted children at Manooc Manoc Elementary School on Boracay island.

Rose CGI’s founder Robert

1978: Arrived to study in Cebu, Philippines

1980: Moved to Tokyo, Japan

Employed In the education field for 40 years

2004: After witnessing the tsunami in Thailand, Robert was motivated to create an NPO (Rose Colored Glasses International) to assist urban poor children with educational needs. Rose CGI continues to grow.

Our Local Partners

Cebu City Task Force on Street Children

Redentor “Reden” Betito has 20 years’ experience in social welfare and development work catering to children in need of special protection such as victims of abuse and exploitation, children in conflict with law and children in street situations.

He is currently the Coordinator of the Cebu City Task Force on Street Children (CCTFSC) – a coalition of 25 different social welfare organizations and Program Coordinator of The Children of Cebu Foundation, Inc. – an institution that operates the Parian Drop-in Center for Street Children.

Reden, is also involved with Safe Kids Worldwide – Philippines as Cebu’s Coalition Coordinator.

The partnership of the Cebu City Task Force on Street Children (CCTFSC) and Rose Colored Glasses International (Rose CGI) started way back in year 2009.

At first, Rose CGI supported the provision of nutritious food to children attending CCTFCS’s Street Education Class. The program is aimed to prevent children from urban poor families or informal settlers of Cebu City to roam around the streets which could later on turn them into street and urban working children. These children are also the most vulnerable to become victims of many forms of abuse and exploitation. They are the ones living inside public cemeteries, along creek sides, reclamation areas, streets and port areas of the city.

Many of the children proceeded or reintegrated back to formal schooling after attending the Street Education Class. Seeing the need to sustain its gain and the enthusiasm of the children to go to formal schooling, Rose CGI then shifted the support from the provision of meal to assisting the school needs of the children as CCTFSC has difficulty to provide them because it lacks the
resources.

To this day, Rose CGI has supported a total of 50 children in formal schooling who were previously attended the street education class. From this number, 32 are in junior high school education, 11 children are senior high school and 7 are college students. The educational support extended by Rose CGI includes school uniform, school supplies, school projects and payment for school fees. It also provides support so that children attends socio cultural activities such as summer camp and sportsfests which gives them opportunity to use their physical energy, stimulate cognitive growth and develop social values which are geared towards character building and personal development.

Overview

Class In Session

Street education classes means the children actually study on the street.
When it rains they get wet!

Education is the key to freedom from the cycle of poverty that binds too many children in the Philippines.

The Cebu City Commission for Children reports there are approx. 6,000 street children out of school in Cebu City alone.

Street children not addressed will become in conflict with the law.

Rose CGI will expand assistance to Cebu City Street Children through Elementary, formal Junior, High School and University.