was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2015. And registered to DSWD having a liscense to operate under liscense no. DSWD - SB– RL– 00176 - 2016
In June 2010, the Provinces of Oceania and India of the Congregation of Christian Brothers in accord with the Oceania Province’s incorporation as the Edmund Rice Brothers, the Philippines Inc. jointly set up a community of four Brothers in Maasin (two from India and two from Oceania) with a view to carrying out a study through wide consultation over six months as to what ministries should be undertaken which would impact on the poor and the young within Region VIII . From this study, three field ministries emerged. The Three Ministries are:
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ANIMATION ( YDA )
To support high school communities themselves becoming caring communities through campus ministry, transforming lives of students in need, promoting integral human growth of all, and responding to the cry of the poor and the earth within and beyond the school. CHILD ASSISTANCE AND LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION ( CALP )
To assist the poorest of children and youth to access and engage in schooling as a means of hope, livelihood, fulfillment of life and happiness and to empower their families to be freed from the chains of poverty. COMMUNITY BASED REHABILITATION ( CBR )
To prevent disability in children and youth and to assist those with disability to live positively with lives fulfilled according to their potential and abilities. COMMUNITY BASED INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT
Our way forward is to ensure that persons with disabilities and other marginalized people will be included in all aspects of community life. We believe that a healthy community embraces diversity, has equal opportunities and recognizes that all its members have the right to be heard and to participate in the implementation of programs that affect their lives. The ministries are supported by the main ERM Center in Maasin City and an Outreach center in Bato Leyte, Following Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan a second Outreach Center was established in Palo Leyte. EDMUND RICE MINISTRIES KABANKALAN
PAGTIB-ONG EDUKASYON SANG PAMILYA (PEP) - Uplifting Famiies through Education: That a very poor families will be empowered to ensure the education of their children. IMPORMAL NGA PAGTUON SA NAGAKINAHANGLAN (PNP) - Informal Learning for those in need: To provide an alternative education for children and youth who have dropped out from the formal system and basic literacy and nymeracy for children and adults. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PrROGRAM (CDP)-That communities may have life , life in its fullness, by empowering people collectively towards self-nourishing, self-governing, self-sustaining communities. PAGSUPORTA sa KAAYONG LAWAS (PKL) - Health Program: That the health needs of the very poor will be met through empowerment of the communities. VISION
Edmund Rice Ministries Foundation, Philippines Inc.–envisages very poor and needy people of the Philippines especially children and youth being enabled in developing communities, to live “life to the full”
MISSION
Through participation of families, schools and communities in their own development,
Through education, advocacy and networking; and
Through animation of people of the business world in the Vision, in-country support and funding,and national and international collaboration,
The foundation, in particular Trustees and Secretariat staff,
Are commissioned:
To walk with people, who are among the poorest, especially the young, with the compassion and respect for their dignity and human rights, thereby accompanying them through the projects and the branches in their own liberation.; and
To promote in practical ways a consciousness of the need for environment stewardship.
