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11/07/2026

Building Lives, Transforming Futures: How Ezer Foundation Empowers Bicol Through Its Key Areas of Service

Driven by its foundational mandate of Building Lives Through the Word, Ezer Foundation, Inc. (EzerFI) continues to pioneer comprehensive community transformation across the Bicol region.

Operating from its central compound in San Nicolas, Iriga City, the mission-driven organization has developed a sustainable network of 10 tuition-free schools and holistic development programs.

Rooted in the Hebrew word Ezer, meaning HELP, the organization focuses its programs on a comprehensive framework targeting

Health,
Education,
Livelihood, and
Practical Principles
(HELP)
to break the cycle of poverty. By bridging immediate humanitarian relief with long-term socio-economic development, the foundation empowers individuals across all age groups, from vulnerable youth to senior citizens.

Grounded in the deep conviction that,

"only one life it will soon be past, but only what is done for Christ will last,"

EzerFI aims to look past current regional crises to provide a tangible, hopeful path forward for the country's future generation.

Eleven Strategic Pillars of Impact:

1. Safe House & Orphanage: Providing safe shelter, nutrition, clothing, and values-based lifestyle training to protect at-risk, abandoned, and vulnerable children from environmental ills and trafficking.

2. Free Tuition Schools: Delivering quality elementary and secondary education across 10 regional centers using the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum to develop academic excellence and Christian character.

3. Higher Education Scholarships: Granting financial assistance for bachelor's, graduate, and post-graduate degrees to academic students facing economic distress, unlocking professional opportunities.

4. Performing Arts & Orchestra: Offering free instrumental music lessons and orchestral training as an intervention program to transform youthful energy into discipline, teamwork, and artistic expression.

5. Care for the Aged: Ensuring dignity, physical care, and emotional support for senior citizens within a productive, intergenerational community setting alongside the foundation's youth.

6. Livelihood Cooperative: Operating the Ezer Multi-Purpose Cooperative to instill a spirit of cooperativism, providing micro-enterprise support and skills training for sustainable family financial independence.

7. LAMP Outreach: Implementing the Literacy, Arts, Music, and Practical Principles Program in remote, far-flung areas to bring essential reading and life skills to out-of-school youth and adults.

8. Health Services: Partnering with the Department of Health (DOH) to conduct medical missions, bloodletting drives, free medicine distribution, and milk feeding programs for malnourished children.

9. Microsoft STEP-UP: Providing free information technology training and digital literacy to empower local youth with modern technical skills needed for employment in the global tech sector.

10. Trainings & Seminars: Capacity building through educational conferences, leadership workshops, and the National Convention for Teachers to uplift professionals across the communities.

11. Community Assistance: Deploying rapid crisis response, disaster relief goods, resource distribution, and counseling services to ensure no family faces critical moments alone.

The foundation’s legacy is heavily sustained by its alumni.
Since the 1980s, even before EzerFI acquired formal legal status, the initiative began sending young people to school.

This grassroots effort successfully produced professional lawyers, engineers, teachers, accountants, and nurses.

Today, these same professionals return to pay tribute to the foundation, serving as active Dynamic Building Partners to sustain and expand the very mission that gave them their start.

The scope of EzerFI's reach expanded dramatically with the launch of the LAMP Program, an ambitious initiative aiming to reach, train, and develop one million children. To fuel this massive undertaking, the foundation established the Ezer Fund Crusade Program, creating a systematic fundraising network that transforms everyday supporters into partners of structural change.

Answer the Call: Become a Dynamic Building Partner Today

With pressing socio-economic challenges still threatening the youth, the need for passionate advocates has never been more urgent. Ezer Foundation issues a vital call to action for individuals, professionals, and corporate organizations to align with this mission.
As noted in Matthew 6:20-21, stakeholders are invited to lay up treasures in heaven, turning passive sympathy into active, structural support that transforms current struggles into a promising tomorrow.

Do not let the cries of vulnerable children fall on deaf ears. Step forward today and become the dynamic partner Bicol’s communities need.

Official Contact Information:
Address: Ezer Compound, Zone 3, San Nicolas, Iriga City, Philippines

Email: [email protected]
Website: ezerfi.net

08/07/2026

Limang manggagawa ang kumpirmadong patay, pito ang sugatan, at lima pa ang patuloy na pinaghahanap matapos gumuho ang lupa sa isang tunnel construction site sa Wayanad district, Kerala, India.

Naganap ang malaking landslide nitong Hulyo 7, 2026, bunsod ng malalakas at walang tigil na buhos ng ulan na dala ng southwest monsoon.

Nangyari ang pagguho malapit sa Meenakshi Bridge sa Kalladi, sakop ng nagpapatuloy na Anakkompoyil-Meppadi tunnel road project.

Bukod sa 5 nasawi at 7 naitalang sugatan, may 5 pang indibidwal ang pinangangambahang natabunan sa ilalim ng makapal na putik at gumuhong istruktura.

📷 The Tribune India

04/07/2026

OMBUDSMAN, NAGHAIN NG KASONG PLUNDER LABAN KAY SEN. MARCOLETA

Pormal nang naghain ng kasong plunder ang Office of the Ombudsman laban kay Senator Rodante Marcoleta sa Sandiganbayan, batay sa inilabas na opisyal na pahayag ng ahensya nitong Hulyo 3, 2026.

Ayon sa Ombudsman, nag-ugat ang kaso sa tatlong cash donations na nagkakahalaga ng ₱75 million na hindi umano idineklara ng senador sa kanyang SALN at campaign finance reports. Bagamat inamin na umano ni Marcoleta ang pagtanggap ng pera, binigyang-diin ng Ombudsman na ang usapin ngayon ay kung ito ba ay maituturing na plunder at bribery sa ilalim ng batas.

Tinugon din ng ahensya ang naunang pahayag ng senador ukol sa utang na loob, at sinabing walang lugar ang konseptong ito sa serbisyo publiko kung gagamitin para pagtakpan ang hindi idineklarang milyong-milyong piso. Sa kabila nito, tiniyak ng Ombudsman na mananatili ang presumption of innocence o pag-aakalang walang kasalanan si Marcoleta habang gumugulong ang proseso at may karapatan itong ipagtanggol ang sarili sa korte.

21/06/2026

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FOUR and a half decades ago, 20 courageous believers carried out one of the most daring acts of faith in modern history. Under cover of darkness, a single barge quietly cut through Chinese waters — its cargo: 232 one-ton blocks of Bibles, each packed with 48 watertight boxes holding 90 Bibles apiece. One million Bibles total, bound for a church that had been waiting, praying, and suffering.

The mission was called Project Pearl.

By 1981, China's underground Christians had been stripped of everything — no church gatherings, no Bibles, no public expression of faith. Many were imprisoned. Many were tortured. Some were killed. And still, they believed.

So when that barge approached the shoreline in the dead of night, thousands of underground believers were already waiting. They didn't hesitate. They waded in — some jumping into the dark water — risking arrest, risking everything, just to get God's Word into their hands.

Project Pearl wasn't just a smuggling operation. It was the answer to years of desperate prayer.

Forty-five years later, we serve the same God who parted waters, protected His people, and moved through the darkness to deliver His Word. He is still doing miracles. He has not gone silent.

Let this anniversary stir your faith today. 🙏

20/06/2026

Para sa iyo, tama ba ang pagkalas ni Senator Joel villanueva sa kampo ni Senator Alan Peter Cayetano?

I-komento ang iyon saloobin. 👇

20/06/2026

New York at Shenzhen, Nangunguna sa Listahan ng May Pinakamaraming Bilyonaryo Ngayong 2026

Nanatiling sentro ng pandaigdigang kayamanan ang lungsod ng New York matapos itong magtala ng 146 na bilyonaryo ngayong taon, ayon sa pinakahuling ulat ng Hurun Global Rich List 2026.
Sunod na nanguna ang Shenzhen (132) at Shanghai (120) mula sa Tsina, na nagpapatunay sa mabilis at agresibong pag-usbong ng ekonomiya sa rehiyon ng Asya.
Batay sa inilabas na datos, lubos na dinomina ng Asya ang listahan kung saan 18 sa nangungunang 32 na bilyonaryong kapital ay matatagpuan sa kontinenteng ito.

Kinakatawan nito ang 58% ng kabuuang 1,813 na bilyonaryo sa buong mundo. Bukod dito, ang mga lungsod sa Tsina pa lamang ay sumasakop na agad sa 34% ng kabuuang bilang ng mga nasa listahan.

Bagamat nangunguna ang New York (Americas) at pasok ang London (Europe) sa top 5 na may 102 bilyonaryo, malinaw na ang sentro ng yaman sa daigdig ay unti-unti nang lumilipat patungong Silangan dahil sa mga mauunlad na siyudad tulad ng Beijing (107), Mumbai (95), at Hong Kong (88).

08/06/2026

Tuluyang nawasak ang RD Plaza Building sa kahabaan ng Daproza Street, General Santos City, bandang 7:37 ng umaga bunsod ng mapaminsalang lindol na nagmula sa Cotabato.

Ang nasabing establisyimento ay ang opisyal na tahanan ng dalawang sikat na himpilan ng radyo, ang 101.5 Love Radio General Santos at 94.3 DZRH News FM, bukod pa sa isang sangay ng Jollibee na matatagpuan sa ibabang palapag nito.

Ayon sa ulat ng DZRH News, kasalukuyang naka-ere ang mga anchor at staff sa ikatlong palapag nang magsimula ang marahas na paggalaw ng lupa. Nagawa namang makababa at makalabas ng kalsada ng mga empleyado ilang sandali lamang bago tuluyang bumagsak ang buong istruktura. Ligtas ang mga tauhan ng media bagamat may ilan na nagtamo ng minor injuries habang lumilikas.

Video Courtesy: Love Radio GenSan