FAQs
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Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions
Families in the Holy Spirit Sharing Christ’s Transforming Love with the Poor
Answering the Cry of the Poor
The Head Office is currently located at #156 20th Avenue Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines.
ANCOP’s efforts revolve around transforming, materially and spiritually the:
- Child
- Family
- Community
ANCOP has two major programs:
- Community Development
- Education
Community Development is one of the two major projects aimed at directly helping the poor. The program organizes, develops and empowers a community where a poor child and his family can live in decent surroundings to experience life grounded on Christian values, respect and practices.
The following are the programs under Community Development:
a) Shelter – Builds ANCOP Communities by providing housing and common facilities for the poor through multi-sectoral partnerships.
b) Livelihood – Provides the necessary training and/or economic opportunities to become employees, producers, contractors, business partners, savers and investors through sustainable livelihood programs.
c) Health – ANCOP Health aims to support and promote a culture of health consciousness in poor communities by advocating and implementing good health practices such as hygiene, nutrition and preventive health care leading to a healthy lifestyle for the whole family.
d) Technical and Vocational Education and Training – partners with different organizations specializing in Technical and Vocational courses like Don Bosco One TVET Philippines and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to upskill/reskill vulnerable segments of society to enhance productivity and help address poverty.
ANCOP promotes and implements:
- Community Based Health Care
- Hygiene and Sanitation
- Proper Nutrition
- Immunization
- Medical/Surgical Missions
- Calamity/Relief Operations
ANCOP’s Education program is aimed to educate poor children. ANCOP believes that education of the poor child and his family is key to poverty alleviation.
Educational Sponsorship Program (ESP)
ESP is a one on-one-sponsorship by a donor partner to a poor child or youth, pre-qualified from the funded communities of the Ancop donor network and CFC Ancop covered areas/target groups.
ESP funding assistance is provided to Elementary, High School and College/Technical/Vocational students. The ESP is funded by Ancop individual or corporate sponsors in the Philippines and by the Ancop Global Walk, other Ancop partners supporting ESP local and international including non-government organizations, academe, parishes and archdiocese.
Cornerstone
Cornerstone is a church of the Poor Couples for Christ (CFC) Partnership Program for Education. It has two levels, one for Elementary and another one for High School. The Elementary Program aims to reach out to slow readers in elementary children in public schools through Reading Tutorials and Values Formation. The High School Program aims to reach out to High School leaders through Christian leadership and Values Formation. Family support is provided through the Parenting Formation. The Cornerstone Program is consistent with the core mission of CFC to bring Christ’s transforming love to families and the poor. The very name Cornerstone refers to Christ Himself (Mark 12:10-11).
At the moment, ANCOP does not fund scholarships abroad.
No, while ANCOP is the social justice arm of a Catholic lay community, we are open to help anyone in need, regardless of religion or creed.
Those who become beneficiaries of our programs—whether ESP, community development, or the disaster and calamity response—may need to undergo our values formation, we do not force anyone to receive baptism into the Catholic faith.
We, however, take the Great Commission seriously and believe that the greatest charity we can show to anyone is to help share to them the one true Catholic faith passed on to us by the apostles from Jesus Christ.
As of 2020, a new direction of ANCOP has been to specifically reach out to members of the Couples for Christ community who may themselves be in need of our programs, provided they meet the pre-set qualifications.
I am a donor
Yes. As a registered non-profit organization, ANCOP issues certificates of donation that individual donors and companies can present to the BIR when they file their tax returns to avail of a legitimate tax deduction for their donations to ANCOP.
You may email a screenshot of your online donation to agwtreasury@cfcancop.org
For individual donors, we will need:
- Donor’s complete name
- Specific ANCOP program the donation was made to
For companies, we will need:
- Company name
- TIN number
- Company address
- Specific ANCOP program the donation was made to
For companies, we will need:
- Company name
- TIN number
- Company address
- Specific ANCOP program the donation was made to
I am a scholar
For high school/elementary students:
- With general grade average of 75-82.99%
- Php 18,000 and below monthly family income
- Unmarried and no children
- Has submitted an accomplished ESP profiling form
- Willing to undergo values formation
- Ages 6 to 23-years old only
For TVET or technical vocational trainings:
- Php 18,000 and below monthly family income
- 18 to 35-years old, physically fit able to read and write (DMCI)
- 18 to 45-years old, physically fit able to read and write (Don Bosco)
- Accomplished TVET Profiling Form
- Willing to undergo values formation
- Willing to work at DMCI after the training *(for DMCI Program)
For seminarians:
- 18 to 35-years old, physically fit able to read and write
i want to volunteer
There have always been a variety of ways to volunteer for ANCOP, depending on your talents and skills, like volunteering for public school tutorials or fundraising. The ongoing community restrictions, however, has created a shift to more online platforms for our advocacy. In ANCOP we are in need of volunteers for:
- Video editing
- Article-writing
- Social media management
- Community engagement
- Online ad creation
- Consultancy for Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Stakeholder management
- Content creation
- Campaign promotion
- Linkages & Public relations
- Training for staff & alumni (I.e. resource persons)
What the logo means
The logo illustrates that ANCOP is very much aligned with the work of CFC. The program under ANCOP are to be implemented based on the core values of CFC – Pro God, Pro Family, Pro Life and Pro Poor, with the key principle that Christ is the center of the work and must be proclaimed in word and in deed.
The house
This represents primary objective is to provide optimal living conditions for the poor in a safe and clean environment.
The children
This represents our advocacy for quality education for children in hopes of helping them fulfill their dreams of a better life.
The Family
This represents how CFC is pro-family and we fulfill the mission of building the Church of the Home.
The Circle
This represents the unity that binds Family Ministries in this endeavor of uplifting the lives as well as our unity with the Catholic Church.
The Dove
This represents how we are moved by the Holy Spirit and empowered to act now.
The Color Green
This color represents CFC’s commitment to care for the environment and all God’s creation.
The Globe
This represents the global network of ANCOP and CFC.
Become a beacon of hope.
Your donations will send scholars to school, build homes for families, upskill the jobless, and answer the prayers of people who are close to losing hope.
