Childhope Philippines formally marks a major organizational transition as it moves from Kaugmaon 2025 to Tatag 2026, signaling a strategic shift from recovery and growth toward resilience, strength, and long-term sustainability. This transition reflects the organization’s evolving response to the persistent and complex realities faced by children in street situations and reaffirms its commitment to protecting children’s rights, welfare, and future.
The move to Tatag 2026 builds on the progress achieved under Kaugmaon 2025. While Kaugmaon focused on rebuilding systems, stabilizing programs, and strengthening partnerships after periods of disruption, Tatag represents a readiness to consolidate gains and move forward with stronger foundations, deeper collaboration, and more resilient approaches to child protection and education.
From Growth to Strength: Understanding the Shift
Kaugmaon, a Cebuano word meaning growth or development, captured the organization’s direction during a period of recovery and expansion. Under Kaugmaon 2025, Childhope Philippines worked to restore essential services, strengthen internal capacity, and ensure continuity of support for children in street situations.
Tatag, meaning strength or firmness, reflects a more forward-looking and resilient stance. Tatag 2026 emphasizes the importance of stability, adaptability, and sustainability—recognizing that the challenges faced by children in street situations are long-term and require systems that can endure social, economic, and environmental pressures.
This shift does not signal a change in mission, but rather a strengthening of how that mission is carried out. Tatag 2026 positions Childhope Philippines to respond more effectively to emerging risks while maintaining consistent, high-quality services for children.
Keeping Children at the Center of the Transition
Children in street situations remain at the core of Childhope Philippines’ work. These children continue to face multiple and intersecting risks, including limited access to education, exposure to violence, health vulnerabilities, and social exclusion.
Tatag 2026 reinforces a child-centered and rights-based approach by ensuring that programs are designed not only to address immediate needs but also to support long-term development and protection. This includes strengthening safeguarding mechanisms, improving service delivery, and ensuring that children’s voices are considered in program planning and implementation.
By placing resilience at the center of its strategy, Childhope Philippines aims to help children build the skills, confidence, and support systems they need to navigate challenges and pursue safer, more stable futures.
Strengthening the Street Education and Protection (STEP) Program
Central to Tatag 2026 is the continued strengthening of the Street Education and Protection (STEP) Program, Childhope Philippines’ flagship initiative for children and youth in street situations.
STEP integrates education, protection, and life skills development to provide comprehensive support tailored to the realities of street-connected children. Through the program, children gain access to alternative learning opportunities, support in returning to formal schooling, and skills development that prepare them for future livelihoods.
Equally important, STEP delivers protective services that address risks such as abuse, neglect, exploitation, and hazardous work. These services ensure that children are not only learning but are also safe and supported.
Under Tatag 2026, STEP further balances immediate interventions with long-term pathways. This approach ensures that children are assisted during crises while also receiving sustained support that helps them move toward stability, independence, and reintegration.
What Tatag 2026 Means in Practice
Tatag 2026 is not only a strategic framework but a practical guide for how Childhope Philippines operates, partners, and delivers impact.
For programs, Tatag means stronger planning, monitoring, and evaluation systems that allow teams to adapt quickly while maintaining quality. It ensures that lessons from the field inform decision-making and program improvements.
For partners and supporters, Tatag provides clarity and accountability. It strengthens collaboration by aligning goals, defining shared responsibilities, and encouraging collective action across sectors, including government, civil society, communities, and the private sector.
For communities, Tatag emphasizes participation and ownership. Community-based approaches remain central, with families and local stakeholders actively involved in child protection, education, and prevention efforts. This helps ensure that positive outcomes for children are sustained beyond individual projects or funding cycles.
Building Organizational Resilience and Accountability
A key focus of Tatag 2026 is strengthening internal systems to support long-term sustainability. Childhope Philippines recognizes that lasting impact for children depends on a resilient organization with strong governance, clear policies, and accountable processes.
The transition includes enhancements in program management, safeguarding frameworks, and financial and operational systems. These improvements help ensure that resources are used responsibly and that services remain responsive to the needs of children and communities.
By investing in organizational resilience, Childhope Philippines positions itself to scale impact responsibly, manage risks effectively, and uphold transparency with donors, partners, and the public.
Deepening Partnerships Across Sectors
Tatag 2026 places strong emphasis on collaboration. Childhope Philippines continues to deepen partnerships with government agencies, non-government organizations, schools, community groups, and private sector partners.
These partnerships enable shared accountability and coordinated responses to the complex issues faced by children in street situations. By working together, partners can expand reach, improve service quality, and address gaps that no single organization can resolve alone.
Tatag 2026 aims to mobilize greater collective action by strengthening trust, aligning strategies, and fostering long-term collaboration in support of child protection and development.
Sustaining Community-Based Approaches
Community engagement remains a cornerstone of Childhope Philippines’ work under Tatag 2026.
The organization acknowledges that children’s well-being is closely linked to their families, caregivers, and local environments. Hence, Childhope Philippines continues to work closely with communities to strengthen child protection mechanisms, promote education, and prevent harm. By building local capacity and encouraging shared responsibility, Childhope Philippines supports communities in becoming active partners in safeguarding children’s rights.
These community-based efforts contribute to long-term resilience by addressing root causes and reinforcing protective environments for children.
Innovation Guided by Purpose
Innovation under Tatag 2026 is driven by purpose and practicality. Childhope Philippines continues to refine its approaches based on evidence, experience, and emerging needs.
This includes improving data use, adapting education models, and exploring new ways to deliver services effectively in challenging contexts. Innovation is guided by the goal of improving outcomes for children while maintaining ethical standards and accountability.
Transparency remains central, with clear reporting and responsible stewardship of resources reinforcing trust with supporters and stakeholders.
Moving Ahead of 2026 with Strength and Purpose
The journey from Kaugmaon 2025 to Tatag 2026 is not something Childhope Philippines can do alone. This transition calls for shared action and collective responsibility to ensure children in street situations continue to receive the care, protection, and learning opportunities they deserve.
You can be part of this movement. By volunteering your time, you help bring learning, creativity, and care directly to children who need it most. By donating, you support programs like the STEP program, strengthening long-term solutions that help children move toward safer and more hopeful futures.
Every action, whether big or small, helps build resilience—for children, families, and communities. Stand with Childhope Philippines as we move forward with Tatag 2026. Together, we can help ensure that no child is left behind.