KANLUNGAN, Filipino for “sanctuary” was born in July 18, 1989 to help Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), especially women, and their families.  It is a non-government, non-stock, non-profit organization.

Until 1992, Kanlungan served as a crisis intervention center for prospective and returned migrant workers and their families.  For better social effectivity and more holistic intervention, it expanded its services to include legislative and policy advocacy, organizing of families of overseas workers, education and training, research, information and publications and, recently, local economy development and capability building. Kanlungan believes that only by enhancing the workers’ individual and collective strengths and advocating for social and policy change can the institution make a dent in the overall situation of the Filipino migrant workers.

Kanlungan Centre is a donee institution accredited with the Philippine Council for NGO Certification (PCNC).pment.

VISION

We, as officers and workers of Kanlungan Centre Foundation, Inc., envision a truly sovereign and democratic Philippine society where labor migration is just an, and not the only option, and where overseas Filipino women and men enjoy the respect of peoples in other societies within the context of a just and egalitarian global order.

MISSION

In the attainment of our vision, we shall:

• Uphold the rights and welfare of OFWs and their families, especially women migrants thru gender-responsive, holistic and empowering direct services, advocacy, organizing and capacity-building;
• Engage in the prevention and fight against trafficking in women and children; and
• Contribute to the creation of social, cultural, economic and political conditions where rights of OFWs and their families are protected, sustainable reintegration of OFWs is facilitated and alternatives to labor migration are available.

GOALS

As we are guided by the Vision and Mission, we are further challenged to concretize:

Empowered OFWs and their families as manifested by the following:

• awareness of the national and global issues affecting migration
• awareness and claim taking of their rights and entitlements
• participation in governance

Gender responsive community-based structures of care and governance that provide preventive, remedial and developmental services to migrant workers and their     families

Strong collaboration between and among advocates, service providers and other stakeholders to provide holistic and gender-sensitive services to OFWs and their families

A critical mass of advocates that actively lobbies at the national and international level for pro-migrant policies, programs and services that promote and protect the rights and welfare of OFWs and their families and addresses other migrant issues and concerns

Strengthened ability of overseas Filipinos to assert their rights, individually and collectively, to deepen their nationalism, and enhance participation in local economy and national development.

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