Kathlyn’s Story

Kathlyn, a 19-year-old girl and a 1st year college student of Southwestern University-PHINMA currently taking up Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management dreams to be a professional hotelier in a five-star hotel or cruise ship in the future.
Kath grew up in the loving arms of her grandparents. Their house is located in one Cebu city’s slum areas. Ever since she was a child she never met her biological father while her mother was living with her stepfather and their own children but later on separated when Kath was around 13 years old. Currently, her mother is unemployed and still needs to support her other step siblings, so her grandparents decided to take care of her despite the difficulty of their livelihood.
Around 2006, she became one of the recipients of Street Education Program implemented inside a Community Watch Outpost in Barangay Caretta, Cebu City. Despite the absence of her true parents she was able to do good in her studies and due to her consistency, the program still supports her until now.
The program implemented by Rose CGI’s partner – The Children of Cebu Foundation Inc. help her with her educational needs and led her closer to her dreams. She said that she is thankful about the program because without it she wouldn’t be able to get into college and start her stepping stone to become a professional hotelier or maybe to be a pastry chef someday.