Abandoned older women in Group Home needs your love and care through your donation to provide their basic needs (food, hygiene supplies, and medical needs). Group Home is a community-based residential care facility for abandoned and indigent older women. The concept of COSE Group Home is based on the idea of "aging in one's place", where abandoned and homeless older persons continue to be part of the community where they can still participate and contribute.
Older persons experienced different types of abuses such as physical, financial, emotional, sexual, and abandonment. Through the years, the Department of Social Welfare and Development reports a significant increase in older people living in the streets or left alone with no homes or family to take care of them. COSE introduced Group Home as an alternative to overpopulated institutions or the growing number of street elderlies.
COSE envision an equitable society for all ages, where older persons live in dignity, healthy, self-reliant, secure and free to commit themselves to others and society. By continuous operation of Group Home and the provision of basic needs will uphold the dignity of the residents and will promote their rights as an older person. Integration of the Home in the community encourages participation of Group Home residents in community-building.
The Group Home serves as the model project of a community-based residential care facility where an older person's participation is given importance even they are abandoned. Some representatives from local government units (LGUs) and other groups/organizations visited the place to learn how Group Home, a community-based residential care facility is being implemented. Tacloban City in Leyte province has started to implement the same project as a result of COSE's advocacy and promotional activities
