Stairway Foundation Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government child care organization located in Puerto Galera, in the island of Oriental Mindoro. It was established in 1990 by Lars C. Jorgensen and Monica D. Ray as an alternative program for the most marginalized and endangered streetchildren in the Philippines.

Below is the organization’s Vision and Mission.

Vision
The organization’s vision is to see all children realize their abilities, hopes and dreams in a society which will protect their rights as human beings and will hold equality, justice, spirituality, health, education, family, community, and the environment as the guiding values and principles for their holistic development.

Mission
Stairway’s mission is to gain inspiration, knowledge, conviction and humility from working with the most outcast and endangered children in society, and to manifest these gains in creative expressions, which will alter general perceptions of the most marginalized groups of children around the world, and trigger mobilization of resources for change.