is a faith-based Non-Government Organization (NGO), registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC Reg. The organization started with the efforts of SVD priests in strong partnership with Karl Kuebel Stiftung (KKS) of Germany. Its direction-setting body, the Board of Trustees (BOT), is composed of seven persons representing varied sectors from the church, academe and private practice. I
t was founded in 1999 by a group of catholic lay leaders, Divine Word Missionaries (SVD) and Holy Spirit Sisters (SspS). For the past 12 years, the organization had been implementing various projects in the areas of education, economic development, human and community development, and advocacy for women and children. There are currently more than 40 personnel and staffs working in the different programs. Their varied expertise and experiences in development work across the Visayas and Mindanao allow the organization to enjoy the trust of more than 12 partner agencies abroad. boasts of its strategy as being fully present with its staff in some of the marginalized and depressed areas of Metro Cebu and Mindanao, being our partner groups and communities the garbage collectors (dumpsites dwellers), informal settlers, street children, prostituted women, fisherfolks and farmers. believes in the wholistic development of persons in their communities for them to be able to carve the kind of development they can pursue.
