Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Filipinos Abroad Helping Filipinos at Home
Category: Philippines
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Upcoming NEXTGEN Event
Passage To Home: A Dialogue As 2nd, 3rd, -generation Filipino Americans, how can we give back to our home country? How can we learn more about “home”? Are there opportunities to invest in the sustainable development of the Philippines? Saturday, July 28, 2012 10:30 am – 1 pm Lincoln Park Campus of DePaul University Thomas…
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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, Pampanga, Philippines. The Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide would like to congratulate and thank the Pagbabalik…
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Alliance for Bases Clean Up Provides Body Talk Access, a Healthcare Alternative to Victims of Toxic Wastes in Clark and Subic
Bayanihan Foundation partner, the Alliance for Bases Clean Up Provides Body Talk Access, a Healthcare Alternative to Victims of Toxic Wastes in the Philippines.
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To Help Locally or Globally? You Don’t Have to Choose, You Can Do Both
Choosing between giving locally or globally is a false dichotomy; it is an unrealistic division that reflects the orthodoxy of the last century. In the 21st century, Filipinos and many others that live in the diaspora lead their lives in a transnational and global context. You don’t have to make a choice – you can…
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Leading Socio-economist Dr. Richard Williams: “Let’s Clean Up In the Philippines”
Leading socio-economist Dr. Richard Wiliams presents a compelling essay about the need to clean up the toxic wastes left behind at the former US bases in Clark and Subic, Philippines.
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Bayanihan Foundation Announces Three Exciting Events for November 2011
The Bayanihan Foundation is excited to announce three major events happening in November 2011: 1) film screening of the award winning film, “Left By the Ship” in Chicago and in New York; 2) Eid al-Ahda celebration helping indigent Filipino Muslim families and children in Iligan, Philippines; and 3) announcement of organizations willing to help in…
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You’re Invited To Watch award winning film “Left By The Ship” in Chicago & NY
The Bayanihan Foundation invites everyone to join the film showing of “Left By The Ship” in Chicago and in New York, an award winning documentary about Filpino Amerasians, children whose fathers were US military service personnel and their mothers are assumed to be prostitutes. Many suffer from discrimination, prejudice and extreme poverty; they’re America’s forgotten…
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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.
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I Found A Glimmer of Hope For Toxic Waste Victims in the Philippines
Myrla Baldonado, Organizing Director of the Bayanhan Foundation, shares her reflection about the workshop on the victims of unexploded ordnance (UXO) and toxic wastes left behind at the former military installations in Clark and Subic, Philippines. Myrla finds a glimmer of hope as the campaign is revived to seek fairness and justice.
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Dangerous Unexploded Ordnance Found in Clark and Subic, Philippines
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) found in Clark and Subic, Philippines continue to endanger children and families that live there. September 16, 2011 marks the 20th year anniversary of the Philippine government’s refusal to renew the US-Philippine military base agreement that set in motion the US withdrawal of troops from the Philippines. Twenty years later, the US…