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... Maraming sumusubay-ubay sa issue na ito. Yung mga bata marami na awa dahil bakit ipinasara ng DSWD itong private orphanage tapos din nila sa facilities under DSWD. Pakikwento nga po ano ba nangyara dito sa Gentle Hands Orphanage?"

Mas maawa tayo kung nakita nyo lang yung condition nila doon sa Gentle Hands. Ako, I myself went there. Kaya nga ako papunta para makita ko by myself. Pero yung nakita ko hindi ko kayang patirahin ang sarili kong mga pamangkin sa ganoong lugar.

Imagine mo yung bahay para sa 80-70 na bata pero ang nilagay nila 149. At syempre sa pagkaganyang kasitip you're bound to get hygiene issues. On top of that, pati yung ventilation at higit sa lahat Christian, wala mga fire exit, na-revoke na nga ng Bureau of Fire nung nag-inspect sila.

Sa madaling salita, mas nakakaawa yung iwanan sila sa ganoong klaseng kondisyon at mas nakakaawa at mas delikado kapag iwan natin sila doon at may mangyaring pinsala.

Simple lang naman ang tanong ko. Aantayin ko ba natin na magkaroon ng pinsala bago ko gagalaw? Kaya nga bago ko in order yung cease and desist, ako mismo nagpunta ko doon, tinignan ko by myself para makita ko at hindi lang ako nagre-relize sa mga report sa akin.

Mind you Christian, yung tinasabi nila parang napaka-abrupt. Tatlong beses na namin yan. Late last year, bago pa ako naging kalihin. Early February, right about when I joined the department. Middle March, meron ulit. Pero parang tila nahuhulog lang sa deaf ears. Wala namang naaayos na mga bagay.

So may imminent danger Christian. Ako mismo nakita ko mga bata na sa loob ng isang lugar na walang fire exit. And mind you, BFP confirmed it last week already and they said, i-re-revoke nila yung fire safety inspection certificate kasi delikado talaga.

So it's part of the regular monitoring namin. Pero bukod doon may mga complaints na ako mismo na natatanggap. Kaya nasabi ko sa sarili ko, to see is to believe. Hindi pwedeng may nag-complain lang, hindi ko na kagad maniniwala ako.

Kaya talagang mag-isa ako sumama sa mga social worker to do spot check. Nung una nga Christian ayaw pa kami papasukin. Ang point ko, kung wala ka palang kinakatakutan, bakit ayaw niyo akong papasukin at mga social worker?

So after discussing it with the guard, pinapasok rin kami. And lo and behold, imagine 149 walang social worker at that time, walang house parent. Ang nadatnan ko kasambahay, mga apat o lima sa kanila na clearly overwhelmed. So you can imagine what type of care the children are getting. Nakakalungkot Christian. That's the physical side.

So clearly may problema doon, kulang sa manning, hindi sumusunod sa ratio, abandonado technically, walang person of authority when inspected. Two, yung physical, inakwento ko nga sayo. And there were three more. One, yung case management concerns namin.

Kailangan kinaka-case manage. Gusto namin malaman kung may ability kang i-case manage yung mga batang na sayo. So case management includes yung pagbabantay sa kanilang well-being. These are cases of different degrees. Iba na abuso, iba inabandona. So importante na minamanage mo sila.

Yung kanilang anak, may isang case niya in particular, pinaubaya lang nila for temporary, kasi manganganak siya at hindi niya maalagaan ng sabay. Pinaubaya lang niya for a couple of months.

At ang pinaka-pinakamasakit doon, kumuha siya ng tinatawag namin na PCAR, yung Parental Capability Assessment Report. Binigyan siya ng Quezon City Social Welfare Office at sinabi dapat ibalik siya ng anak mo kasi may kapasidad ka palakin siya.

So ang point ko doon, may pattern wherein they break Filipino families, they segregate mothers from children. And that by itself in my opinion is very traumatic already. So sanang huwag ng Executive Director sabihin na may trauma dahil ako naniniwala ako, pagwinalay mo ang isang ina sa kanyang anak, that is very traumatic not just to the child but to the mother and the family.

Q1. Isolated case?

Ang isang bata hindi yan tinitignan na isolated case kundi isang mukha yan na may pamilya, may buhay at dapat bigyan.

Ang isang bata hindi yan tinitignan na isolated case kundi isang mukha yan na may pamilya, may buhay at dapat bigyan ng halaga.

At itong bagong case namin ang pinakamalungkot, sa pasig naman siya kumuha ng pikar. Almost 2 years na yung pikar, hindi kinikilala. Talagang dinedma.

Q1. Anong reason na binibigyan nila? Kasi karapatan ng nanay.

Ang sagot ng Executive Director on TV late last week, Thursday or Friday, hindi niya kinikilala yung pikar sa case number one dahil yung nanay ay taga-pampanga pero yung pikar ay from QC.

Sagot namin doon, una wala sa rules book, wala sa guideline. Pangalawa, common sense naman. Pag sinabing suitable ka na nanay sa pampanga as a QC, hindi mo naman nawawala yung pagiging suitable mother mo pag lumipat ka lang ng bahay.

Being a mother is being a mother no matter where you are. And if the social worker says you are a capable qualified mother at wala silang nakikita rason bakit hindi bibigay sa iyo, hindi yan nawawala dahil lumipat ka ng bahay. How lousy her excuse was.

In fact, that's a clear violation. Kanina nga sabi ng isang media, si Karen, sabi niya hindi ba kidnapping or illegal detention? I cannot remember which of the two. Pero kasi when you hold a child or a person without any reason whatsoever, di ba that's already illegal detention?

At least for case number 1. But for case number 2, 3 and 4, there are other circumstances. Like what? Kinuha ng gentle hands?

So does the state benefit protective custody? Pero hindi sabihin na hindi babalik sa iyo yan. Pag napatunayan mo na kaya mo na, kaya may pinatawag na PICAR where social workers assess you, then dapat kilalaning yung PICAR.

As soon as I joined the department and even up to now, I visit these facilities. We operate 76 of them. So daily we check them. When I go on my field visits, I do spot checks and they're not perfect. Wala naman perfect ang pasildad pero hindi ganito ka-grabe sa nakita ko. The mistakes are minor in nature but we operate them to the highest level of standards that we can.

Mag-re-renovate na yung gentle hands. Ina-address na raw yung mga issues or red flags raised by the DSWD. Totoo ba yan? At saka may pag-asa pa bang maibalik ang mga bata sa kanila. Ano ba yung next course of action?

Christian, the season disease was anchored on the physical side of it. Pero after we shut down the facility, andami naman na lumutang na non-physical like issues on case management. So ngayon nagpapa-explain kami sa kanya bakit ganito ang ginawa niya sa mga kasong binapanggit namin.

Meron rin kami nakita na issues on program management. Yung nga nag-check kami sa DepEd meron bang accreditation yung kanilang modules at yung kanilang maliit na paaralan sa loob na kulang pa sa bilang ng mga studyante nila. Kasi program management yan.

So itignan rin natin Christian. Meron kasi kaming complaint naman na ampon galing sa facility na yan. Tatlo o ilan sila? Tatlo. Pero yung incidents ng disruption, meaning yun na paampon sa maayos na pamilya pero nag-act up yung bata, naging very disruptive siya at ibinalik sa atin.

Kasi hindi ko sinasabing hindi nangyayari pero nangyayari. Imagine mo Christian, three times sa kanila nangyayari in less than a year. So there must be something wrong with the interventions or the preparations that they make. And that's another angle that we look at, yung help or intervention programs nila.

So the government can also infuse some funds dito sa mga private orphanages to help them? I don't think they can Christian. I don't think we can because malinaw na you cannot use public funds for private efforts. But remember these are facilities that can do fundraising and they do that all the time.

In particular, Gentle Hands has been known to have very rich and popular benefactors as pointed out to me this morning in my interview. So bagamat hindi ka nakakakuha ng government grants, may private donors ka naman.

Christian for me to say, people will think I'm already predisposed to it. But sa mga darating na araw, makikita nyo naman. The ongoing fact-finding of our department on the seeming pattern of breaking Filipino families who are in distress apart,

that's one pattern that we're looking at. Kasi hindi yan naman dato ng ating mga care facilities. Their mandate is to take care of children who are abandoned and neglected and abused, not to break Filipino families apart.

Also, our attached agency, National Authority on Child Care, sila yung mga nagpapaampon, they are also in the process of looking at those disruption cases.

So why is it that there's a lot of occurrence of disruption from this particular facility compared to the rest? What are they doing for the result to be like this?

By the looks of things, it looks like Gentle Hands will be forgotten or there's still hope for it to operate again.

Christian it depends on their explanations to us. At this point, nandun palang kami sa explain why. Ang dami namin explain why and we'll wait for their explanation.

The fact-finding is ongoing. So let's see where their answers take us. Sabi ko nga that's why there's a process of investigating and for them to answer.

Gano'ng katagal yung investigation and gano'ng katagal sa inyo yung mga bata? 149 no?

Christian gano'ng katagal sila sasagot? Yan ang better na tanong.

It depends on that.

Sagot na kami, ang daming beses na namin kinol yung attention nila sa physical side. Like I mentioned, hindi naman sila gumagalaw. Ngayon, nakilangan pa natin ganit karampagin ng gusto,

at saka sila gagalaw. So ngayon, mas mabibigat yung paratang sa kanila. Like yung Marzan family, yung kinipwento ko, they're really mad.

They called the presidential hotline 8888. Hindi nga kami. Na-refer yan sa amin three days before we acted at hindi pa nare-refer saan.

I didn't even know that case existed until I served the cease and desist order and it was brought to my attention.

So yan, paan po sasagutin? At saka Christian, nagbulat ako dun sa public pronouncement ng Canadian executive director na hindi niya kinikilala yung Picar.

E ano pakikilalanin mo? You do not create your own guidelines because you are not the regulator.

The regulator here is the DSWD. But how come you're creating rules as you go along?

You are not here to create rules but you are here to take care of the children.

Who are you to dictate who is qualified and who is not qualified to be a family? Social workers ang may call yan, hindi po kayo.

Itong binabanggit niyo na yung nanay na kinukuha niya ulit pero hindi niya mabawal?

Na-reconcile na sila last Thursday or Friday. Pero may tatlo pa tayong pending na ganyang case. Yung dalawa, we're working on it.

Pero yung pang-apat, kanina lang nag-walk in sa opisina namin.

I understand. Nakakaawaring kasi talaga yung mga bata. Baka hindi nila naintindihan yung big picture na pinag-uusapan natin.

Meron sila attachment hindi lang doon sa comfort zone nila, maski may hazards na binabanggit nga kayo.

Tsaka doon sa mga caregivers nila. Pero yung mga caregivers ba, I understand, nabasa ko lang. I don't know kung totoo.

Pinasama nyo rin doon sa mga DSWD facilities. Hanggang ngayon ba?

Christian, number one, alam namin yan and that's why puro social worker, mahigit sa 18 social worker ang pumunta doon nung gabi nayon.

Our social workers are equipped to make sure that they manage the risk and the trauma or the actions are explained clearly. That's one.

Number two, as we speak right now, ine-evaluate ulit yung mga bata. They're being given psychosocial evaluation one by one to figure out kung ano yung effects or kung meron mang effects.

But one thing for sure, our social workers in the public sector knows what they're doing and they are registered social workers.

Christian, mas marami pa nga tayong social workers sa facility natin kesa doon sa facility na nakita ko.

And number three, ang tanong ko is yung tinatanong mo ngayon na nandoon pa ba yung kanilang caretaker, yes we give them access even up to now.

Nothing changed from the day that they requested access.

And pati ang mga kawanina media pag nagtatanong kung pwede bumisita at kamustahin, we allow them by all means.

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