Smokey Tours
Smokey slum tours in the slums of Manila
What are slum tours?
- Slum tours offer experience, believing that deep experience equals deep insight.
- The tours and Smokey projects are unique and honest; a testimony of changing times and our global interconnectedness.
- All tours are guided by well-trained local tour leaders, who come from underprivileged communities and are educated to run eye-opening tours around Metro Manila in The Philippines.
Which organization is organizing the Smokey slum tours in Manila?
- Bless the Children Foundation is the local organization in Metro Manila that is responsible for booking a Smokey slum tour, and for the training and selection of the tour leaders in the slums.
- 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 becoming the tour leaders 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 a holistic way. So the results are more long term and self-esteem is given back to the people.
- Quote from Bless:
- " Smokey Projects hopes to bring societal change in our communities, either small or on a much bigger scale. It is a huge goal, and we work in small steps. It is not easy, and sometimes things go smoothly, sometimes not at all. We try to do the things the best way we can, and we always try to find ways to be more sustainable. Thank you all very much for supporting us! "
When and how can you book the slum tour?
- You can book a slum tour almost all year around, except for certain holidays.
- You can contact directly Bless the Children Foundation in Manila, preferably by e-mail only! Preferably three days ahead of the tourdate.
- Stating the following information:
- Name:
- Nationality:
- (WhatsApp) number:
- 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)
- Using the following e-mail adress: info@bysmpblessthechildren.com.
