Happy Horizons

Happy Horizons Children's Ranch is a child-care ministry in the Philippines that receives assistance from Asia's Little Ones and is dedicated to the rehabilitation and defense of street children. Founding directors, Glenn & Nancy Garrison, are leading advocates of children's rights in the region. Happy Horizons monitors and cares for hundreds of street children who have been orphaned or abandoned by dysfunctional and poverty-stricken families.


Street children beg, steal and sell themselves in an attempt to provide for their daily needs. Living on the edge of survival, they are often swept in an undertow of beatings, illegal detentions, torture, sexual abuse, rape and murder.

Happy Horizons is dedicated to helping these children get off the streets and back on the right road to meaningful and productive lives. Last year, Happy Horizons gave assistance to hundreds of children through a multi-tiered program, which consists of street outreaches, crisis centers and a group home.

Street Outreach: Happy Horizons' Outreach teams provide street children with emergency medical care, counseling, non-formal education and friendship. The children are encouraged to leave the streets and seek further assistance at the crisis centers. The goal is to get them off the streets-not to provide food and clothing while they are on the streets. The Outreach team works with hundreds of street children every year in each of the major areas serviced.

Crisis Centers: Happy Horizons works with a number of shelters that provide the street children with a structured and supportive environment. In the crisis centers, they are fed and clothed, given a clean bed and medical treatment and receive educational and vocational training. Most important, they receive love and hope. Once the children become more stable, they move on to the next stage.

Group Home: Children who take up residency in the Children?s Ranch are nurtured by a carefully chosen team of counselors who try to replicated a positive family environment. The children learn to bond with this surrogate family and have the opportunity to pursue further education and vocational training. Children remain at the Ranch until they are 18 years old or until they have completed their education. When the children leave the home as young adults, they are able to live independent and productive lives.