You don't have to carry it alone
Caring for family from far away is heavy. Our community support groups are built on something our cultures already know: the neighbours who simply show up.
You can have the best tools in the world and still feel alone with them at 2 a.m., a continent away from the people you're caring for.
That's why the last piece of our community isn't a tool at all. It's people.
Not a Western-style support group
Caring for family from far away is heavy, and the people around you may not understand its particular shape. In our community you'll be surrounded by people who do — because they're carrying it too.
This isn't a support group where you sit in a circle and recite your troubles. It's closer to something our cultures already know in their bones: the barangay, the extended family, the neighbours who simply show up when it matters. It's the family-and-community way of caring, restored for those of us scattered by distance and work.
ICP Care Team Leaders
At the heart of it is one group: ICP Care Team Leaders — the people a few steps ahead, who guide other families and hold each other up while they do it.
They help each other redistribute the load of a world carried almost entirely by women. One day, some of them may be you.
The success of one is the success of all
As Filipinos, we call this bayanihan: a spirit of communal unity, cooperation, and mutual aid. Success here was never meant to be a solo achievement. It's something a whole community holds up together — and there's a place in it already waiting for you.
Learn it together, for free
Courses, guided questions and support groups for medical migrants and their families.