Do you want to book a tour?
Bless the Children Foundation is the local organization in Metro Manila anila that is responsible for booking a tour and the training of the tourleaders in the slums
You can contact directly Bless the Children Foundation in Manila preferably by e-mail only!
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Number of people attending the tour:
Preferred date and time: (AM/PM; MM/DD/YY)
Preferred tour area:
Option 1: Smokey Mountain and Happyland Tour (Tondo, Manila)
Option 2: Baseco Tour (Port Area, Manila)
Bless the Children Foundation
Bless strives for a better future for Filipino children. The better future will be offered to selected families of the poorest of the poor in Metro Manila. The method being used is to give power back to the families, mothers specifically. The mothers are trained to become the tourleaders of the tour. To have your child sponsored to go to school or be part of the malnutrition program, the families are empowered and helped in an holistic way. So the results are more long term and self esteem is given back to the people.
'What we contribute to the World'.
Help & Inspire
- We have worked together with a couple of organizations throughtout the years. The proceeds of the Slum Tour were given to a local NGO, which is CREST, providing relief after typhoons and other disasters. Smokey Tours and CREST have done projects in the community together.
- CREST helps the community with:
- Relief after typhoons and other disasters (food and shelter)
- Trainings to prepare for typhoons and disasters
- Fire warning systems
- Organizing community centers
- Daycares for children
- Community Health Centers
- The Slum Tour is organized to provide livelihood for the local tour leaders in the slums in Manila.
Travel & Cooperate
- Smokey Tours is located in Metro Manila.
- Smokey Tours offers four different tours and educates impoverished people to become professional tour leaders.
Learning & Developing Talent
- Guests will get an insight and gain knowledge of 'the other side of Manila'.
- Tour Leaders of Smokey Tours improve their English, learn tour leading and leadership skills.
Work & Initiate
- The Smokey Slum Tour was the first tour of Smokey Tours.
- Smokey Tours also developed a Market (Food) Tour, a Bicycle Tour and a Cemetery Tour.
Eco Urban Tourism - a MUST DO when in Manila” (USA)
I came away from 2 of their tours with an incredible appreciation of their goals, their stewardship and their friendliness. I took the Slum Tour and Bicycle Tour and walked away form both with lots of new information about Manila and experiencing the heart of its people both from the walking tour and interaction with guides. Wow...both tours were fantastic.... More
“Great tours” (Amsterdam)
I did 3 tours, slumtour, biketour and markettour and they are all great. Tourleaders are very nice and I felt save all the time.
“Slum tour, we all should see and know the reality” (Japan)
I attended to the slum tour,guided by Remy who lives in the slum and works to improve the community.help people in education, health etc. It is a very eye-opening, educative and meaningful tour. I recommend this tour to all. Many people smiled for me and kid were living in very tough environment but were very cheerful.
- GMA i-Witness’: Black Manila was one of the Finalists for a UNICEF Award and won the award! Jan, 2015. In 2014 Smokey Tours was featured on a local network in Manila. The episode is called Black Manila and was a finalist for a UNICEF Asia Pacific Child’s Rights Award. Black Manila won the award! The support is immense and highly appreciated. The show is in Tagalog but with its growing fame, English subtitles have been placed. Click below to watch “Black Manila”. To the Video
- The tourleaders of Smokey tours benefit of the Insurance For Talent program that provides them with free Health insurances for them and part of their families.
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