Hasik-unlad
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UPCOMING......Staff team-building and retreat for Community of Hope partners -- Operation Blessing, ISACC and Sharing-KMBI on July 17-19, 2015.
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psychospiritual trauma care'Each One, Help One' is ISACC's program on disaster preparedness. It is a capacity-building seminar aimed at developing a mass of mental health caregivers and community nurturers to help survivors of disasters and other such traumatic incidents. Initially done in response to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda, this has evolved into a more long-term program in response to the fact that massive disasters will now be the 'new normal' because of climate change and the country being the third most prone to disasters in the world.
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updates....Part of ISACC's 'Each One, Help One' program was a series of seminars held April and May to train potential mental health caregivers like the UP Palo Health Sciences students and the BEC leaders of the Sto. Niño Parish in Tacloban City, Leyte.
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About 90% of the church communities within ISACC’s sphere of influence have moved towards some kind of urban and rural development work through the influence of Hasik-Unlad, a capacity-building program which has trained some 200 church communities nationwide, coaching nine church-based people’s organizations in various parts of the country.
For its own praxis, the Institute does hands-on development projects with theory-building purposes built into them. One such project was community organizing among fisher-folk in Nasugbu, Batangas, which enabled the setting up of a multi-purpose cooperative which now serves the community with credit assistance, a water supply system and a day-care center, besides facilitating its land acquisition and community mortgage program. Another is an economic rehabilitation project among the Tinggians, a tribal community up north in the mountains of Abra whose access to food and other resources had been cut off by the devastation to crops and infrastructure caused by the 1990 earthquake. ISACC also did community organizing among farmers in Amaralina, Batangas. Following this is an integrated area development specially focused on the economic empowerment of women through credit assistance. The Nagkakaisang Lakas ng Kababaihan sa Nasugbu (NLKN) engaged the entrepreneurship of some 250 women and has since then developed micro-enterprises that serve as seasonal income for mostly fishermen's wives. A rich source of learning had been ISACC's work in an urban poor community where a whole church was intentionally trained and treated as a community to be organized, just like any other people’s organization. The work has seen the transformation of a traditional church into an empowering one for the surrounding community. Likewise, it has sown dramatic changes in a street-children gang which used to cause strife in the community. Once riddled with gang wars, criminality and drug addiction, the community has turned into a relatively peaceful one, for which the residents were so grateful they helped in feeding the street gangs that formed the nucleus of a small church that continues to thrive. |
We believe development work is witness that is incarnational. Among ISACC's development-related video and audio-visual productions are the following:
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