By CFSI Director for Philippine Programme Vladimir Hernandez South Upi is a mountainous region in Central Mindanao in the Philippines that is home to a tribal group called Tedurays, who are rice and corn farmers. . . .
Staff from CFSI’s Psychosocial Care Project in Tacloban helped to strengthen and empower families at a “Training on Parent Education on Adolescent Health and Development” seminar held in Dulag in Leyte Province, in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines, on April 28, 2014.
CFSI commends the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for successfully negotiating, and signing on 27 March, 2014, the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). Click on the link below to read the full CFSI statement.
Members of CFSI’s Board of Trustees regularly undertake field missions to the areas in which CFSI operates to witness first-hand the organization’s humanitarian work. Self-funded at no additional cost to CFSI, field missions enable Board Members to consult with, and receive feedback from, staff in the field, partners and beneficiaries. These insights are useful to the Board in providing organizational oversight, further guidance and strategic direction for CFSI.
Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda) struck the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines with devastating force on November 8, 2013, bringing with it extreme wind speeds, a massive storm surge and heavy rainfall. It was the deadliest typhoon to ever make land in the Philippines, and was one of the most powerful ever recorded globally.
CFSI’s Basic Education Project is giving nine-year-old Saira Adam the opportunity to attend school despite the economic hardships facing her family. The Basic Education Project (BEP) - a collaboration between CFSI, Stichting BRAC International and the Philippines’ Department of Education launched in 2012 in 15 conflict-affected municipalities in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur provinces - is aimed at enabling far-flung communities without access to education to establish preschool and elementary schools utilizing an alternative delivery mechanism.
A year of preschool made possible by CFSI’s Basic Education Project has given Mindanao siblings Sokrie and Hanipa Cosain a new outlook on life and their parents new hope for their children’s future. Eight-year-old Hanipa Cosain and her 14-year-old brother Sokrie both have special needs - Sokrie an eye defect that has left him near-sighted, and Hanipa an enlarged toe resulting from elephantiasis.
More than 1,300 children in some of the areas hardest hit by last November’s Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) were able to put aside their worries for a time and smile and laugh at a series of . . .
CFSI would like to congratulate Mary Anne Bianca Guidotti, Technical Assistant in the Office of the Executive Director, on being crowned Binibining Pilipinas International in the Binibining Pilipinas (Miss Philippines) contest for 2014. Mary Anne (aka Bianca) will now represent the Philippines in the Miss International 2014 contest in Tokyo, Japan, in November.
Members of CFSI’s Child Rights Project in the Visayas distributed hundreds of toys sent from the US to children in typhoon-hit Guiuan.