Pasali Philippines Foundation

Welcome to Pasali Philippines Foundation Inc.

Pasali envisions self-reliant communities in an environment where social justice and peace prevails.

Our mission is to inspire and empower the marginalized communities and vulnerable groups in Mindanao.

Strategy
Using resources from overseas Filipinos and partners in development, PASALI shall focus its service work on children as vulnerable group; on marginalized indigenous, Moro and settler communities; and ethnic groups at risk of being stateless through development approaches that combine education, appropriate technology, disaster preparedness, community organizing, and provision of basic needs. Each approach is tested and demonstrated for effective results before being adapted in areas of expansion.

Core Values
1. Respect for Life
We value and respect Life as a sacred gift by all creation.
2. Community Empowerment
We believe that local communities must participate actively in achieving social consensus, in performing duties on governance, in determining their history, and in upholding a culture of being one with all Nature.
3. Innovative and Creative Service
We believe that compassion for marginalized communities should inspire us to develop relevant innovations and creative solutions in providing services

Goals
1. Transformative Education for Children
2. Water Supply Approach for Marginalized Communities
3. Sustainable Agriculture for Marginalized Communities
4. Social Groups at Risk of Statelessness
5. Institution building

Main Stakeholders
1. Overseas Filipinos as experts assisting Pasali institution building and programs
2. Youth and Farmers’ Organizations
3. Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups: children; communities where indigenous, Moro and settlers coexist; people at risk of statelessness

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Pasali News & Updates

Pasali Participates in the Regional TOT on Climate-Smart Farm Business School

September 19 to 28, 2017 covered the 10-day Regional Training of Trainers (TOT) on CLIMATE-SMART FARM BUSINESS SCHOOL (CSFBS) held at Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center XII (ATI-RTC XII), Tantangan, South Cotabato. Twenty (20) Agricultural Extension Workers from the provinces of South Cotabato, Sarangani, Sultan Kudarat, North Cotabato and Maguindanao responded positively to the regional office’s invitation as the first batch for CSFBS 2017 read more..

Pasali Facilitates Training on Dragon Fruit Production and Processing for Farmers of Koronadal

With the aim to capacitate farmers in acquiring adequate knowledge, skills and orientation on the critical aspects of dragon fruit production and processing including post-harvest and marketing aspects, Pasali as an Extension Service Provider and in partnership with the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) conducted a Training on Dragon Fruit Production and Processing for Farmers of Koronadal read more..

Progressive Education comes to Cronasia Foundation College, Inc.

“Sabi nila ang ganda daw ng ginawa n’yo, masaya daw…gustung-gusto nila ang activity. Gusto sana namin ng isa pang training mula sa inyo” [“They said what you did was very wonderful, it was fun… they really like the activity. We would like to have another training with you”], enthusiastically expressed by Atty. Cyd Charisse P. Non-Dizon, the School Coordinator of Cronasia Foundation College, Inc. (CFCI) days after Pasali’s Children’s Education and Welfare Program (CEWP) staff conducted a TEAMBUILDING WORKSHOP FOR FACULTY MEMBERS AND STAFF read more..

Value- Based Teaching Through Respect Education 2016-2017

The Respect Education Program started as an advocacy campaign in 2012 to promote intercultural understanding among the children in schools and aims to decrease number of bullying cases especially in areas where diverse culture exists. It later evolved into an approach that aims to improve the quality of education by creating a learning environment where every child feels safe, accepted and capable of fully developing him/herself. This became a child motivational learning program and sees as an effective peace building activity for the children.
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Coffee Farmers' Linking and Learning with Nestle's Buying Station

Connecting farmer organizations to their target markets is one of the aims of the project Reducing Rural Poverty through Agroentrepreneurship. In answer to this, last March 2, 2017 thirty six (36) coffee farmers, coming from four farmer associations from Maasim, Sarangani Province, and Kalamansig and Lebak, Sultan Kudarat , participated in an exposure visit at Nestle’s buying station at Tagum City read more ..

Keytodac’s First Collective Marketing to Nestlé Tagum

Last February 5, 2017 Keytodac Coffee Growers Association (KCGA), a barangay level farmer organization under Lebak Coffee Growers Association (LCGA) was able to deliver 20 tons of green coffee beans to Nestle's buying center in Tagum City as a collective marketing activity. Although it was their first time, the product delivered was determined at Grade 1, the highest grade in terms of green coffee beans read more..

Pasali initiates Buddy-buddy System

Pasali initiates a project goal aiming to encourage the teachers to develop and adopt creative approaches in teaching in an extent to utilize and even maximize the synergy of Respect methodologies in their daily teaching. The Buddy-buddy System which is program's form of implementing this year's project goal that states: "To integrate Respect Education teaching strategies in the formal curriculum of DepEd Region XII". read more..

Pasali to Intervene Learning Action Cell Sessions in Schools

In line with the implementation of Republic act No. 10533, the Department of Education issues the policy on the Learning Action Cell (LAC) as a K to 12 Basic Education Program School-Based Continuing Professional Development Strategy for the Improvement of Teaching and Learning. LAC is supported by DepEd Order No. 35, series of 2016. This advocacy of DepEd implies that every teacher should be properly guided read more

LBP personnel attends Training Course on Plantation Crops Production

Thirty-Five (35) Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) personnel from its Head Office and Regions 2-12, attended the 5-day Training Course on Plantation Crops (Banana, Rubber and Oil Palm) Production last January 23-27, 2017 held at the Regional Training Center XII of the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI). Managed and supervised by the Pasali Philippines Foundation read more..

Pasali hosts Forum on Migration and Development for Region XII

Pasali Philippines Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI) and the Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA) hosted a “Forum on Migration and Development for Region XII” last January 18, 2017 held at its office in Calumpang, General Santos City. More or less 50 representatives from Region XII Government Line Agencies (RGLAs) dealing with migration and development, Local Government Units (LGUs), Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Family Circles, migrant organizations/groups, and read more

Respect Facilitators go to PETA

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) offered Pasali Respect Facilitators an inspiring 9-Day Immersion last December 3 to 12 which was held at the PETA Center, New Manila, Quezon City. The event, mainly organized and initiated by the former’s Program Executive Director, Mr. Wilson Billones, exposed the seven facilitators to a variety of theatre performances focusing on the different forms of staging read more

Learning Together

“No man is an island’’, the quote says. A lot of people learn better together than alone. We relate with the mistakes of others when we have been through the same situation. As such, relationships must be positively fostered. An activity like a forum is just one way to do so. In this case a Farmers Forum which included farmer participants from all people organizations served by the partner NGOs of PinoyMe read more ...

Pasali's CEWP staff facilitate and perform at Children's Congress 2016

Last November 28, various Local Councils for Protection of Children of GSC and co-member agencies converged in the Children’s Congress 2016 held at Venue 88, GSC. Through collaborative efforts of the City Social Welfare and Devt Office, Family Planning Org of the Philippines, International Care Ministry, RD Foundation, 26 Barangay Council for the Protection of Children of GSC and Pasali Philippines read more..

When Calamity Damage Coffee Crops

November marks the start of the coffee season, flowers bloom and the process of ripening into fruits begin. These fruits shall yield the beans that are essential to a coffee farmer and his family’s livelihood. Coffee season lasts only four months normally, and in the case of farming families’ dependent only on it, nothing must compromise this. But on the eve of November 5, 2016 flashfloods and landslides read more..

Pasali hosts School-Based PTA Strengthening

Held in various recipient public schools within General Santos City and Sarangani Province, Pasali tapped the partnership of PTA (Parents-Teachers-Association) as co-peace advocates in the promotion of equality and understanding thru the Respect Education Program in every school campus. Thus, the School-Based PTA Strengthening Orientation-Workshop was productively conducted on read more..

SKSU Graduating BEED Students undergo Training on Creativity in Teaching with Respect Methodologies

To diversify the intercultural understanding in education and fulfill explicit basic needs of students, Pasali, once more, launched “Creativity in Teaching with Respect Methodologies Training for K-12 Teachers” last November 4-5, 2016 at Sultan Kudarat State University, Poblacion, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. It was participated by 7 Faculty Personnel and 55 Graduating BEED Students of SKSU read more..

Product Development and Marketing Training for Agricultural Extension Workers of Malapatan

Pasali conducted a three-day training on Product Development and Marketing (Commodity Branding) for Agricultural Etension Workers (AEWs)/Farmers of Malapatan, Sarangani Province held last October 18-20, 2016 at OSCA Building, Barangay Lun Masla of the said municipality. It was joined in by 37 training participants. The training generaly aims to promote product development and marketing read more..

Pasali supports farmers of Palimbang thru Vegetable Production Technology Training

Supporting the national drive to contribute to local income generation, Pasali hosted a Training on Vegetable Production Technology for Farmers of Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat on October 3-5, 2016. It was held at the Sarangani Learning & Resource Ceter in Datu Dani, Kiamba, Sarangani Province. A total of 33 farmers actively took part in the training and listened to the inputs of the two resource persons from read more..

Organic Livestock and Poultry Production Training for farmers from Kiamba, Sarangani Province

Pasali spearheaded a training on Organic Livestock and Poultry Production last September 26-28, 2016 held at Sarangani Learning and Resource Center in Datu Dani, Kiamba, Sarangani Province, attended by 28 farmer-participants from the municipality of Kiamba. This activity is designed mainly to promote native chicken production to provide nutritious food and as a source of additional income read more..

Coco By-Product Processing; Skills training for Rural Women

“Pulos gyud useful sa kinabuhi ang among mga natun-an. Kumpleto: pwede sa panginabuhian, sa pampagwapa, ug tambal. Among paningkamutan nga ang tanan namong natun-an, ma-re-echo sa komunidad ug ma-apply usab sa among tagsa-tagsa ka mga pamilya” Elsa Nolasco, training participant.
Promoting coco by-products and processing to increase income of the coconut farmers, Pasali hosted read more.

Creativity in Education Training for K-12 teachers

This year’s mode of implementation for Respect Education Project involves more on strengthening schools’ internal teaching ability and less on external facilitation. With this, series of trainings are prepared for recipient teachers and Sultan Kudarat State University (SKSU) College of Education students. Pasali's CEWP staff , in partnership with PETA, conducted the “Creativity in Education Training for K-12 Teachers” read more..

"MAGKANAWONG"- A Mobile Theater Production performed by PETA trained Children's Education and Welfare Program (CEWP) staff

The main purpose of REP is to integrate value-based teaching techniques in the formal curriculum and to embed deeper understanding about respect in all aspect of everyday living to cultivate helpful improvement into current generations’ values. In line with this, an idea came up to generate a short theatrical production summarizing the core message that this project aims to deliver – equality amidst culture, tribe, read more..

Pasali as Extension Service Provider of DA-ATI conducts trainings in region XII

Pasali Philippines Foundation, Inc., an accredited Extension Service Provider (ESP) of the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI) – Region 12, has already conducted series of trainings that were held within Region 12 since April 2016 in partnership with the DA-ATI-12. The following trainings were conducted read more..

Training on System of Rice Intensification Methodologies

Pasali's Extension Service Provider team recently conducted a three-day training on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methodologies last August 30 to September 1, 2016 at Pasali Learning and Resource Center in Barangay Baliango, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat. The training was attended by 31 farmers from different barangays of Palimbang read more..

Pasali conducts Operation Planning for Farmers Associations in Maasim

Indigenous people living in the highlands, most of the T’boli tribe of Maasim, Sarangani province, have always struggled to attain higher forms of education vital to their development. Being hardworking people some have tried to venture into business progressing their native way of life – farming. It is therefore an opportunity that these entrepreneurs are cultivated and given proper learning read more..

Project Launching: Value-based Teaching thru Respect Education

It began from the initiative of Respect Education Foundation (REF) Netherlands to integrate “respect value” in teaching methodologies and has earned evident outcome in several selected schools in Netherlands. Pasali Philippines Foundation, through its partnership with CORDAID, in working with children of diverse cultural backgrounds over the past five years, sees the need to link with REF to directly involve children read more..

TNKK: School children in Gensan, Palimbang and Sarangani Province provided of school supplies

Pasali Philippines, as the convener of TNKK (Tulong Niyo Kinabukasan Ko), facilitated the distribution of school supplies including bags and other educational learning materials to students among its recipient primary and integrated schools in General Santos City, Sarangani Province, and Palimbang Municipality on June 21, 24 and July 21, 25-26, 2016 read more..

Pasali co-facilitated Adopt-a-School Program

Learning that there are still many IP communities who are deprived of the government's basic social services, the Area-Based Standards Network-(ABSNET) SarGen Chapter orchestrated this year’s conduct of Adopt-a-School Program at IP Calay Primary School, Brgy. Lun Masla, Malapatan, Sarangani Province on 22nd of June 2016. It's a one day "bridging-the-gap" effort collaboratively extended by read more..

There is more to coffee than beans

For years coffee farmers has been content to produce and sell green coffee beans – these are the dried, hulled and sorted coffee seeds. This may be due to lack of knowledge, post-harvest facilities and interest. But green coffee beans fetch a smaller value on the market compared to its roasted and grounded form. Coffee farmers from three farmer associations coming from the municipalities of read more..

Coffee farming is a business

"Ang pagiging coffee grower ay isang business, dahil kung naglagay ka ng inputs dapat ikaw ay may output. Kung hindi mo ito gagastusan panu ka kikita? Sa pagtatanim ng kape pwedeng umunlad ang iyong buhay.” Ruben Aquino, Kalamansig Coffee Industry Development Council (COINDECO). Kalamansig’s COINDECO, an association of Coffee Farmers, had for the past years received different coffee read more..

Water Is Life. Hydraulic ram pump provides water to communities up in the hills.

With the advent of the best version of hydraulic ram pump, developed by Appropriate Indigenous Development Foundation, Incorporated (AIDFI) and further applied by Appropriate Technology and Innovative Development (ATINDev) Program of Pasali, hundreds of villages in the mountainous parts of the Philippines, are now enjoying supply of adequate water at level 2 system read more..

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