PHI International Volunteer Programme - Hosting Volunteers (IVP)

Background

The PHI International Volunteer Program takes the 4 imperatives of the JPIC document Being Artisans of Hope in Our Blessed and Broken World as guiding spirit. 

On Imperative 1, Washing one another’s feet, the volunteer program seeks to level off the imbalance of knowledge in different areas: cultures, differences in language, use of information, different capacities in roles and services entrusted to us, economic status-access to funds, among others. At the same time impart our own richness to those who come to us.




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Date of Record Entry: 2021/06/18
Date of Record Last Modified: 2022/05/05

Of climate crisis and “dangerous memory”

A day after Typhoon Ulysses wreaked havoc on many places in the Philippines, I went to one of the areas that was seriously affected by the flood and where a number of the SMSF (St. Madeleine Sophie Foundation) families live. The mothers met me with a surprised smile and showed me the extent of the damage of the flood waters. All their belongings were taken out of their small houses to be washed; all clothes were soaked in mud; the children were tired and sleepy for they stayed awake the whole night of the typhoon. There was no electricity and no running water!

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