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LocationTalisay, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippineshttp://www.bacolodcity.gov.ph/The Welcome Home lies in between Talisay and Bacolod City. Bacolod City is the main city of Negros Occidental, an island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Known as the City of Smiles, it holds a festival called MassKara every year - originally organised to relieve an economic depression for the area in 1981.The Welcome Home houses, at the time of our trip, seven families. The adults of which are deaf mutes. The purpose behind the home is to bring people out of the slums and into a place where they can develop their own livelihoods.ObjectivesTo install lights at the Welcome Home Village for the Deaf, Talisay. Installation included the school building and twenty-five homes.OutcomeWelcome Home Village, TalisaySchool building complete; seven homes completed; lights installed to the main meeting gazebo area.Peace Village, SagayTwo school classrooms completed; two rooms in the Youth Centre building fitted with