This past year was one of reflection at the Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide. We began 2013 with hope. We continued our […]
“It is now in the hands of your generations to help rid the world of such suffering.” – Nelson Mandela, […]
This morning we received word from Bayanihan Foundation’s President Dale Asis, who just completed a ten-day journey in the Philippines, […]
From left: Bayanihan’s long-time supporter Shirley Pintado from Chicago and Organizing Director Myrla Baldonado reading the names of […]
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.
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.
