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This past year was one of reflection at the Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide. We began 2013 with hope. We continued our Youth Leaders-Advocate Camp program, its theme entitled “Lead the G.R.E.E.N. Change against Climate Change!” and worked with local youth participants to … Continue reading
Remembering Nelson Mandela
“It is now in the hands of your generations to help rid the world of such suffering.” – Nelson Mandela, June 25 2008 A Great Man has passed away today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Nelson Mandela and all … Continue reading
Posted in Diaspora Donors, Diaspora Giving, Disaster Relief, Education, Environmental conservation, Health, homelessness, Immigration, justice, Labor, philanthropy, Philippine poverty, Philippines, Poverty, Typhoon Haiyan, Uncategorized, undocumented immigrants, Volunteerism, Youth leadership development
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A Note from the Field: After Typhoon Haiyan
This morning we received word from Bayanihan Foundation’s President Dale Asis, who just completed a ten-day journey in the Philippines, and is on a return flight to Chicago. He visited typhoon-devastated areas of Tacloban, Leyte and Giporlos and Guiuan, Samar … Continue reading
Pagbabalik 2012 Raffle Winners
From left: Bayanihan’s long-time supporter Shirley Pintado from Chicago and Organizing Director Myrla Baldonado reading the names of the winners during the second “Pagbabalik” (Coming Home) workshop last January 2012 at the Clark Museum, Clark Special Economic Zone, … Continue reading
Posted in Amerasians, Bases clean up, Diaspora Donors, Diaspora Giving, Disaster Relief, Education, Environmental conservation, Health, homelessness, Immigration, justice, Labor, philanthropy, Philippine poverty, Philippines, Poverty, Remittances, Uncategorized, Volunteerism, Youth leadership development
Tagged community involvement, diaspora, environmental conservation
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1988 book “Critical Choices” highlighted steps to tackle Philippine poverty, remains unfulfilled, ignored
In 1988, Dorothy Friesen wrote an illuminating and revealing, “Critical Choices.” She outlined challenges of the Philippines and the important steps that the country need to tackle to get out of its crisis of poverty. However, twenty-two years later, most of her suggestions remained unfulfilled and largely ignored. Continue reading
Posted in justice, Labor, Philippine poverty, Philippines, Poverty
Tagged Philippine facts, Philippine poverty, Philippines
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New York Times reports sweatshop labor conditions for foreign workers
Training programs or sweatshop? Foreign workers were lured to lucrative training jobs in Japan but turned out to be filled with labor abuses. Workers are faced with such peril. In the future, they should have a choice whether to seek employment abroad or to stay. Right now they don’t have a choice but to leave. Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Overseas workers, Philippine poverty, Philippines, Poverty, Uncategorized
Tagged foreign workers, labor issues, sweatshop conditions
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