First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development

31/12/2025

Throwback

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30/12/2025

Pag-alaala sa kabayanihan ni DR. JOSE RIZAL at sa kasaysayan na naganap sa araw ng ika-30 ng Disyembre 1896.

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𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗜 𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗟 𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗬𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗟 𝗗𝗔𝗬

Sa araw na ito 129 taon ang nakararaaan, binitay sa pammagitan ng pagbaril si Jose Rizal sa Bagumbayan (kilala ngayon bilang Liwasang Rizal Luneta). Pinaratangan ng mga Espanyol si Rizal bilang diwa ng Himagsikan laban sa pamahalaang kolonyal.

Bilang pag-alaala sa kaniya at sa mga Pilipinong nagbuwis ng buhay sa landas ng paglaya, itinalaga ni Pangulong Emilio Aguinaldo ang ika-30 ng Disyembre bilang pista opisyal at pambansang araw ng pagluluksa.

Magkakaroon ng pag-aalay ng bulaklak sa puntod ni Rizal sa Pambansang Bantayog ni Jose Rizal, Liwasang Rizal Luneta, Maynila. Magkakaroon din ng lektura at art workshop sa NHCP Museo ni Jose Rizal Fort Santiago (Dambanang Jose Rizal Fort Santiago) sa Intramuros, Maynila.

Alamin ang iba pang mga gawain para sa Araw ni Rizal sa link na ito:
https://nhcp.gov.ph/news_and_updates/129th-anniversary-of-the-martyrdom-of-jose-rizal-to-be-commemorated

24/12/2025

On December 2, 2025, the first round of judging in the Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree Making Contest was held. The contest was organized by the Department of Education - Cabanatuan City, in partnership with the City Government of Cabanatuan.

There were three judges in the contest, and, one of them was the president of the First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development.

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15/11/2025

Day 1, Nov. 12, 2025

Sharing here the Statement of Purpose by the Chairperson and President of the First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development -

"Good morning!

I am happy to be here to meet you, young leaders, and your advisers.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development or, in short, the First Nueva Ecija NGO, I would like to thank the Department of Education (DepEd) – Cabanatuan City for the trust and the opportunity to be their partner in training the student leaders on values-based leadership for two years now. I would also like to thank The Women of Ateneo for their assistance in tapping resource speakers.

Most of all, I am thankful to the speakers who will be sharing their expertise today and tomorrow.

And, to Mayor Myca Vergara, thank you for the full support and for sponsoring this training event.

I am here representing the First Nueva Ecija NGO. It is a non-government, non-stock, non-profit organization, and thus exists purely for service. The organization was established in 1997 by my parents together with other civic leaders in the province who came before me. First Nueva Ecija NGO has been serving the community and the nation for 28 years now.
One of First Nueva Ecija NGO’s pillars or programs is the Katauhan Program. “Katauhan” --- humanity anchored on Values Formation, under which is the values-based leadership training program.

The theme of your two-day Legacy Leadership Summit is: Building Ethical and Innovative Leaders. Therefore, I would like to ask each and everyone of you to deeply reflect on: What kind of leaders do we have in our community? In our country? In the world? In public and private organizations?

Focus our country's leaders. What do you see, observe or hear about the majority of them?

In my opinion, ang kultura ng tamang asal at ang kultura ng matino at matapat na pamumuno ay tila nakakalimutan na.

Many times in our nation’s history, the electorate has voted for leaders with questionable backgrounds or values. They are leaders with mistresses, leaders with issues of corruption - sakim sa kapangyarihan.. sakim sa kayamanan, leaders who do not respect life… who were elected into office on the basis that the personal has nothing to do with effective leadership.

This is the rationale behind the Katauhan Program. DepEd Cabanatuan conducts training of youth leaders---such as this two-day leadership training---with these goals in mind and I quote:

1) Equip student leaders with foundational leadership skills and interpersonal tools.

2) Develop morally grounded student leaders who lead with integrity and empathy.

3) Empower students to be innovative thinkers and proactive problem solvers.
4) Train students to plan and execute projects responsibly and efficiently.

Before the training starts, let me ask another set of questions: what kind of a leader are you? Are you the kind of leader who will be discussed in the lectures? Do you live out the traits of what a true leader should be.

Listen, reflect, learn and apply what you learn. As you listen to the speakers, reflect deeply on their statements. Sana, hindi lang pakinggan at isaisip, kundi maaari bang isapuso? Right action is always based on correct values.

I hope that this training will guide you to be model leaders of your respective communities and / or organizations.

I hope and pray you will become leaders with good values because leaders with good values are the ones who can truly serve with honesty and integrity.

Be the kind of leader that we need.... Be the kind of leader that we need.

Again, thank you to the Department of Education of Cabanatuan City for the opportunity to be your partner in this Legacy Leadership Summit.

Good day everyone."

12/11/2025

Happening today..

Leadership training organized and hosted by the Department of Education - Cabanatuan City in partnership with the First Nueva Ecija NGO and in collaboration with The Women of Ateneo.

11/11/2025

ORGANIZATION HISTORY

In 1997, the First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development, Inc. (FiNENPPD) was established and incorporated. Its birth was the result of the convening of several of Nueva Ecija’s non-government organizations, people’s organizations, and religious organizations as initiated by the late Belen Lim-Cecilio, a strong and respected civic leader in the province. Founding servant leader Belen Lim-Cecilio, together with her husband Engr. Isagani C. Cecilio, who was a respectable civic leader also, invited prominent and active civic leaders from their respective cities and municipalities in Nueva Ecija to join in the said FiNENPPD.

The FiNENPPD continued and expanded the advocacies espoused by founder, Belen Lim-Cecilio (BLCecilio). In the early 1990s, before the FiNENPPD was incorporated, BLCecilio had already spearheaded several civic activities and pioneering programs and projects such as: the establishment of the Streetchildren Center in Cabanatuan City at a time there was no existing City Social Welfare and Development yet; seminars on Drugs Awareness, Violence Against Women, Moral Issues, and others; daily feeding programs (which lasted for six months) in six municipalities where there were a high rate of malnourished infants and children; Dare Care Center; livelihood programs / projects for men and women, like, skills training on appliance repairs, hairstyling and cosmetics, sewing, cooking, soap-making and many more; and other activities to uplift the moral values and living standards of the needy. Most of these pioneering programs and projects were adopted or replicated by the City Social Welfare and Development of Cabanatuan starting in mid-90s.

With the creation of the FiNENPPD in 1997, the mentioned advocacies and activities were sustained. In addition, the Home for Girls in Palayan City—a place for abused girls and / or victims of r**e are sheltered, protected and received therapy—was opened. The proposed Home for Girls was approved by the Regional Social Welfare and Development sometime in 1997 and came to fruition sometime in 1998. Ever since, it has been under the management of the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and for over ten years it had received support in cash and in kind from FiNENPPD. It is worth mentioning that BLCecilio initiated the establishment of Home for Girls and was instrumental in raising fund for the construction of the big / spacious dormitory building.

Meanwhile, the operations of the Streetchildren Center was turned over to the Cabanatuan City Social Work Department (CSWD) at the time when the CSWD was created sometime in mid-90s. The center continued teaching the children on how to read and write, and started to give scholarships and allowances for the schooling of the children with the help of FiNENPPD. In 1998, a lyre and drum band was initiated and organized by BLCecilio, and funded by FiNENPPD as well; the kids were taught how to play musical instruments to be part of this band which BLCecilio called “Kaban ng Tuwa” which took part in parades and played at fiestas for a fee.

Support to the Streetchildren Center and the Home for Girls, and the livelihood projects (both in financial and in kind) continued until BLCecilio and her associates reached their late 70s and early 80s. By then, the registration of the FiNENPPD was revoked by the SEC, although support for the mentioned advocacies continued through the help of BLCecilio and her friends, even without any fund-raising activities.

By the mid-2000s to late 2017, majority of the officers and active trustees of FiNENPPD had passed away due to old age and illness. Miss Irma L. Cecilio, the daughter of BLCecilio, was tasked by her mother to continue what were started. In late 2019, Miss Irma, who, like her mother, is dedicated to helping uplift the lives of the needy, organized a group of women who had finished training in sewing. Sewing machines were bought, and an association of the beneficiaries of the livelihood sewing program was formalized. Miss Irma at this time was now ready to revive or activate and resume the FiNENPPD of her mother. Unfortunately, the Covid 19 pandemic hindered the revival and the activation of FiNENPPD. It was until after the Covid 19 pandemic, in 2022, when FiNENPPD was revived and reactivated.

The new and present Board of Trustees: Miss Irma L. Cecilio, together with her brother Mr. Orlando L. Cecilio, her niece Mrs. Clarisel C. Salamat-Matibag, Mrs. Aurora Reyno-Pasig, and Mrs. Loida Beley-Martinez, adopted the same name “First Nueva Ecija Non-Government Organization (NGOs)-Peoples’s Organization (POs) Partnership for Development, Inc. with the Trade Name: First Nueva Ecija NGOs-POs Partnership for Development.