The very day that I arrived back in Manila, EJ Pascua, the founder of our I Love Street Children Home was having a meeting of volunteers in Makati, and asked me to come share my experiences with the volunteers. As I related the story about Bogo, and Rolinda’s haunting question, Nick Conneff, a businessman from Manchester, England, was moved in his heart to do something. He postponed his flight back to England, and traveled to Bogo, Northern Cebu instead. He spent a few months there getting to know the street children, and he worked to find an administrator named Alehneh to take care of the girls. He funded all of this by himself, and when we registered Humanility as a tax-exempt nonprofit, Nick joined our international board of directors and also became our UK-Philippine Liaison.

Humanility is not your typical nonprofit; we are driven by the value of Mutuality – shared vision, goals, love, and ownership. We believe that, as people volunteer and take ownership of Humanility projects, that social good synergy is produced and through the multiplication of talents, time, and finances, we can emancipate, educate, and empower more survivors of poverty, atrocity, tragedy, and slavery.