At the 2011 biennial conference of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC) the participants made a historic commitment known as the Clark Declaration. In this document, the leaders of PCEC responded to the Scriptural mandate for “churches to transform communities,” and specifically commit themselves to seek the alleviation of poverty. Thus they pledged to work to equip and empower our churches to be sensitive to the needs of our immediate communities. And so given this framework of PCEC and DSWD’s call for partnership with its Pantawid Pamilya Program, the iHELP Tawid Pinoy program was born in March 2011. Beginning April 2012, iHELP volunteers have been deployed into the communities to assist DSWD staff and walk alongside the poor family-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilya program. As of January 2013, iHELP has conducted over 62 training sessions with over 4,000 participants covering 54 municipalities/cities in 9 provinces from 6 regions. Out of these training, iHELP has deployed 2,116 volunteers who are actively engaged in 6,801 family-groups or a total of 262,936 families.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 15:14:46 +0000