Police may tap churches to assist in street kids outreach

Tuesday 12th of June 2012

BUTUAN CITY, June 12 (PIA) -- The Butuan City Police may tap churches to assist them in their outreach program with the city’s street children.

Butuan City Police Director (OIC) PSSupt Pedro U. Obaldo said this during the Talakayan Sa Isyung Pulis (TSIP) forum at the Butuan City Police multi-purpose hall recently.

“The street children, we believed is mainly a family problem so we think the churches or religious sectors can greatly help assist us in this aspect,” Obaldo said.

The police director said the Butuan Evangelical Ministerial Association (BEMA), an interdenominational association of ministers and churches in the city, expressed their support for the program.

According to him. the police, together with the BEMA ministers, outlined a plan to adopt a family of street child in their own churches to provide the said family the moral and spiritual guidance as well as meeting the family’s needs, which the church can afford.

“This is at the same time a challenge to the churches or religious sectors which has the capability, the skills or the resource to address the problem to come out and help extend their assistance. We will be much willing to facilitate,” Obaldo said. (NCLM/Noel B. Najarro/PIA Caraga)