Better World for Humanity (bet for human)...

BETTER WORLD FOR HUMANITY
ADDRESS: Block 4, Lot 5, Phase 12 A&W subdivision Putik, Zamboanga City Philippines
Mobile NO. 0919-9526931


JUSTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND:

“BET 4 HUMAN” is a non-religious, non-political, non-profit organization has been in existence five or so years ago, and it was borne out of the need to come up with a very apt and timely intervention to the predicament of the many underserved populace in the society who for so long is inflicted with the numerous evils of society.

Socio-Economic, Cultural and Environment inadequacies are apparent in all aspects of the people’s lives; its effects are seen in the semblance of massive poverty, unequal opportunities and the like. It was seen that despite the fact that there are many proposed and even implemented programs and projects pursued by the government and the many institutions in existence, the fact still remains that there are still many things to be done. For, there are still felt needs as pockets of gaps in the implementation of these various and varied initiatives, and is apparently felt by the common people in their respective localities. It ranges from unequal distribution of assistance brought about by the system of whom you know, financial constraints in the delivery of services of almost all mandated service delivery of the government due to lack or poor financial management or poor tax collections, massive corruption practices by those elective and appointed officials in the procurement system and even by the rank and file in terms of the practice of their responsibilities, uneven and unequal distribution of programs and projects to gravely poverty stricken communities, no system of monitoring and evaluations of all program and projects and more importantly there apparently is no transparency and accountability by those in the cudgels of power and supposed responsibilities and obligations.






RATIONALE:
In the light of these plights faced by many communities, their determination to overcome their suffering is greatly affected. Because of the lack of capacity which would be a way to empower them, they tend to be complacent and inactive in a much needed economic endeavor.

For years now, various forms of interventions were already devised to arrest these negative occurrences in order to alleviate if not to ease the pressures of poverty of the people. And this initiative does not to go against, but furthers and polishes the existing institutional and organizational development initiatives.

For as long as there is a strong foundation and strengthened organization and capacitated individuals competently manning different posts within the community organization, any intervention will surely suffice to be effective and successful and an avenue for growth through sustained and guided intervention shall take place.

In view of the foregoing, “BET FOR HUMAN” is poised to strengthen, unify and consolidate most of the needed know-how, knowledge and breakthroughs to solve a particular need/problem of sectors identified in a given community. Thus, opening possibilities for people to realize and be empowered and be determined to address any social, economic, environmental and even political constraints posed by unequal opportunities.

The concept did not come like in a twinkling of an eye. But, rather through the many observed and experienced scenarios and situations the members of the board of trustees and some other resourceful people from our well established networks and resource pool, who felt the very need of interventions through trainings, workshops, seminars, skills development and even material or financial assistance to the people on the ground.

The capacity of these communities tends to be crude and unmatched and unequal to their faced obstacles. For it was observed that leaders of the community or organizations are seen pampered to be accommodated in various hotels to attend seminars or training, fora or conferences in the guise of capacity buildings at the expense of the organization’s and people’s finances and the very much needed monetary resources intended for development, thus limiting the delivery of most basic services direly needed by the community(s).
Therefore, we impose it upon ourselves with the aid of other partners both national and international to be directly involved in the affairs of specific identified sector or sectors and not just their leaders but most importantly the grassroots to include the underprivileged and unfortunate women, children and the elderly. By providing them the necessary knowledge, skills and opportunity to thrive politically, economically, environmentally and more so socially, whereby much needed organizations and enterprise will be set, re establish/ re organized and revitalized through proper education trainings and monitoring, thereby assisting and guiding them in every step of the way they take. In so doing, they will be able to stand on their own and elicit from among them the much needed change which will make them vibrant to propel them for development to the future and beyond.

Vision

AS AN ORGANIZATION WORKING FOR THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED, WE ENVISION A SOCIETY WHERE THE LESS FORTUNATE AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS SHALL HAVE BEEN CAPACITATED AND EQUIPPED WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES (MENTAL, INFRASTRUCTURE) AND EMPOWERED TO HARNESS THEIR FULLEST POTENTIALS TO DEVELOP THEIR LIVES AND THUS ENABLE THEM TO ENJOY THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR THROUGH THE PRESENCE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL, ETHNO-CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PURSUITS BY WAY OF UNITY, EQUALITY, SOLIDARITY, PEACE AND DEMOCRACY MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

MISSION

SHALL ACTIVELY PURSUE A POLICY OF INVOLVING THE INTEREST OF THE UNDERPREVILEDGE AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS, THROUGH TRAININGS AND CAPACITY BUILDING, LIVELIHOOD AND ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT USING THE MANY OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE, AND MOVE TO CREATE AN ONWARD AND SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT WITH UNDERSTANDING AND CULTURAL EXCHANGES WHERE FAIRNESS, UNDERSTANDING AND CONTINUED SUCCESS IS WELL WITHIN REACH.
MAIN GOAL

OUR GOAL IS TO BUILD A BETTER AND SAFER WORLD, WHERE ALL CHILDREN RECEIVE A GOOD EDUCATION AND ARE ABLE TO DEVELOP THEIR TALENTS TO THE FULLEST, SO THAT NOW AND LATER AS ADULTS THEY CAN HELP EACH OTHER IN THE SPIRIT OF SOLIDARITY, TRUST AND MUTUAL RESPECT.


Goals:

1 To organize and reorganize various NGO’s and PO’s and civil society groups in the community into a vibrant, active and dynamic functional organization.

2 To equip these organizations with skills and capabilities, appropriate values and technological know- how towards the realization of their socio political, ethno cultural and economic as well as environmental development.

3 Pursue alternative farming techniques in on and off farm endeavor and employ technology to boost agricultural production at the same time increase the income of every household and ultimately of the entire community.

4 Push existing institutions and entities to support and provide communities with alternative and sustained efforts to solve their specific sectoral issues and concerns.

5 Enhance the capacities and skills of the constituencies through continued skills training to increase productivity and stable livelihood.

6 Issues and concern of women, children and the elderly of which their health is of primordial consideration pursuant to any development undertakings.

7 Create a community based farm (agricultural) technicians who will aid themselves in solving farm problems.

8 A model farm shall be established which will serve as a model and a seed bank and at the same time a livelihood economic enterprise.

9 Shall promote just and humane and environment friendly programs, projects and activities and further the cause of the environment preservation.


CURRENT UNDERTAKINGS:

The members of the board of trustees and the many resource persons or technical consultants for BET FOR HUMAN, in their own personal capacities are engaged in various programs lead and sponsored by national as well as international funding organizations, conducting trainings, seminars in many places in the Philippines. Their expertise ranges from issues and advocacies about the flight of disadvantaged, specially that of women, children and the elderly and creating a better world in the spirit of brotherhood, economic subservience, solidarity, unity, mutual understanding, cultural exchanges, transparency and accountability in the field of governance.

Others are conducting strategic development planning and budgeting with many local government organizations as well as private and people’s organization and cooperatives. Others are engrossed with the issues of agro- aqua culture explorations and enhancements and coastal resource management assessments.

Some concerns themselves with the issues and concerns of the ancestral domain of the indigenous people and the environment.

Others are coming from the academe, NGO’s and Government Institutions.

Most importantly quite a few are engaged in translating the message for a better world to different dialects in the world; and outsourcing funds to finance the many development initiatives of the organization conducive to and in relation with sustainable economic development; such as:




Thrust(s):

1. Barangay enterprise development
= It shall create and provide the necessary organization to manage the produce and buy at a controlled price the produce of the farmers which shall in turn be sold these by bulk to existing markets.

2. Create a Barangay nursery or demonstration farm
= Where seedlings are propagated and distributed to farmers at a very much reasonable price.

3. Skills training for farm technicians and allocation of farm implements and allocation of farm animals and poultry dispersal.
= Provisions for continued learning and agricultural education of the technicians on the modern farming breakthroughs, especially in connection to environmental preservation, and distributes modern farm implements and burden animals and poultry for higher and faster production output.

4. Establish mechanism for a very apt financial interaction.
=Pursue the establishment of an Avenue where entrepreneurs will have access to financial institutions and later establish the same with the participations of financiers and the stakeholders in the ground.

5. Linkages and networking with academic institutions.
= Utilizations of the trainings and educations pursued by the students to further their trainings and educational attainment and possible engagement in economic enterprise to help them establish their own economic endeavor.

6. Provide capability trainings to LGU’s to prepare them for viewing their jurisdictions as economic enterprises.
= Train local officials on financial Management, enterprise development, institutional development etc.



7. Networking and linkages with LGU’s
=Establish regular linkages with LGUs in terms of active participation in the planning process through functional operation of the local development council.

8. Pursue and accomplish such other concerns that shall be specifically required and accomplished by any donor/funding agencies pursuant to its particular interests and thrusts.

BETTER WORLD FOR HUMANITY...

My brother Nixon a political science graduate, my younger sister Leslie a psychology graduate and myself a true blooded volunteer worker for almost half of my life. Just formed an non-profit organization called BETTER WORLD for HUMANITY. This is to make us one with all our volunteering works and register it for legal purposes..

With our passion to serve humanity we come up with this brilliant idea that helping underprivileged people like us, will have a better world for the future of our children's children and the best is yet to come...

ORGANIZATIONAL MANDATE

The organization is aimed at providing pro-active programs and or sufficient Socio-Economic sectors interventions to the to the underprivileged of the community in the Western part of Mindanao and to partner with the development agencies Government Institutions and other funding Agencies for the reduction of poverty inequalities and empowerment and the upliftment of the quality of lives of the people in the Zamboanga peninsula. This is thus aimed so that the people, the end qualified beneficiaries can be provided with sound, effective and efficient programs and projects and activities to bring the people from a state or underprivileged to a platform of sustainable growth and development.

Despite the fact that it is not that known, the Local leadership and most of the communities all around Mindanao has seen the organization as a Glitter of hope amidst the darkness and gloominess that engulfs them. Thus, they have expressed their support and commitment and even financial resources to sustain the organization even in its early stage.

Nonetheless, Local Municipal and Barangay Leaders have requested for a localized socio-economic interventions, using the many technologies available to develop and enhance the capacities of the local populace. Therefore, the organization is poised to conduct a seminar/training/workshops in that respect for the communities in Zamboanga peninsula and even beyond or in such other areas within the span of if its influence and operation. The organization is also preparing other sets of programs directed at alleviating the identified issues and concerns of the communities at large which might even Encompass academic curriculum such as Governance, Politics and Empowerment, Networking, Development Management, Communication Skills, Advocacy and Social Awareness Skills, Administration and Management skills, Value Formation Skill, Project Management Skills, Public Order and Safety Skills and Multi-Ideological Skills and such other matters as agricultural development and enhancements And these output curriculum shall be provided by top brass lecturers coming from different fields of expertise and varied endeavors including NGO’s, Po’s, Academe, including Government officials during a series of trainings and workshops that shall be conducted upon availability of resources.

In addition we are also geared towards implementing special projects, such as, Voters Education, Assistance to Children in armed Conflict, Cultural Festivals in some areas in Western Mindanao, Search for Outstanding Leaders and Employees and such other program interventions to increase agricultural production and the like, the funding for which shall be sourced from International development Funding Agencies and partners who also like the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation who are willing to extend their valuable resources for the development of man and his environs.

To God be the Glory!!!

some of our works last Christmas '07...

This is one of our works here in the Philippines. We have christmas parties for the underpriviledged children in teh community.

mary

Health Care Center Completed...

This is the 1st concrete project of our team here in the Philippines, which is being funded by the good people of Maaseik Town Council and the Message for a Better World-Belgium... The team from Philippines started our volunteering works since 2003 and we have done countless and numerous project for the children and peace advocacy in the Region.

This month we will organize another group and we will registered it as cooperative to make all our programmes and projects as one then. This Health Care Center and summer class project are among our works here in the Philippines. The article was at published Daily Zamboanga Times last June 28, 2008 and Zamboanga Today last June 29, 2008. These two local papers was considered among the leading newspapers in Region IX and Western Mindanao.

It is an honored in our part to be featuring our line of works like this. We are always praying the best is yet to come…

Articles from the 2 leading newspaper in Region IX, Philippines...

This is the two articles published yesterday in two of our leading newspaper in Western Mindanao, The Philippines. The Zamboanga Times and The Zamboanga Today.

Which featured our 1st Summer Recreation Activity Class for selected children in Putik Community, Zamboanga City, Philippines. This is our 1st summer activity which we want to reach in the future in the poorest of the poor communities in our country.

We also chosen 3 deserving children/students to be our 1st scholars, which we try to shoulder in our own empty pocket to help this children families this coming school year 2008-09.

We promise the best is yet to come for our children for their better world in the future.

Hail Mary:-)

Thank you Sir Frans...

I just want to tell the world that I am indebted to Sir Frans, for he’s financial support to me, to my family and to the team whom he trusted too much. I can easily email him to thank in private, but I don’t want to sound a redundant fellow and by telling here at my blog, I think its more thank you words I can tell that without Sit Frans and the team from Belgium, I am nothing now.

I learned so much from my bad experience last year and early this year. In my personal life it was really a nightmare with all the sufferings. But, even though I am away from home, the Philippine team makes an amazing job to run the org and having come-up with a lot of projects/programs from their own initiative I am glad that we are moving on.

The Philippines like the rest of 3rd world countries is suffering from rice shortages, whether the government will not acknowledged but the through is ordinary people from the poorest of among the poor is lining-up to buy 3 kilos of rice in almost of the public markets in the Philippines. But, God is great, surprising with all the problems from terrorism, rice shortages, water and electric bills, high price of fuels and so on. Still we are standing tall and telling the world that Filipino is a survival.

With these regard, I myself is an example of bad nightmare in my life last year and early this year. But, here I am back safe and sound with the all the prayers warriors I have in my life, seeing my parents, friends, relatives and those who love me again, it’s a unconditional blessing that I could not ask for me for now.
Again, I would like to take this chance to thanks Mr. Frans Medaer, Project Leader of Message for A Better World, now base in Dilsen Belgium. For all he’s trust, understanding and patience. Sir, God will bless in any other way, but all I can say here is that thank you and don’t you worry, I will treasure the trust you gave me and I will also treasure that words I promise you then? I pray that you will still support the Philippines in spite was happened to me and the team needs you now especially they are doing an amazing job for this summer which I first feature here at my blog site.

They are waiting for you reply and the team here is asking what is going on for the past weeks. But they make a good exit with the summer culmination activity which I help them finance with my own little money that was given to me. We have selected 3 deserving very poor students as the team’s 1st scholarship. I got almost $500 and I also donated and finance the summer graduation mobilization expenses which a blessing in disguise as my arrival in the country before the big day too.

Muchas Gracia's once again Sir Frans, to the Belgian team and most of all to your family!

God will bless us all and I can pay back all the help you gave to me in the future, just hold on my words I will fulfill it as I publish it here and let the world know that I will always treasure my words Sir!!!

Thanks Sir Frans,

Mary

Summer 08'...

See yah next summer for another event.

Muchas gracias y via con Dios!
Mary