Community Center & Program
Community Center
The Volunteer For The Visayans (VFV) Community center, located at the heart of Barangay 64, BLISS Sagkahan is the home and operations center for all VFV activities.
The center not only acts as VFV's office and headquarters but also runs as a local community center that offers various empowerment programs for members of the local community.
The community center serves a number of demographics in the local community, from serving as a base for after-school tutorials and a daily feeding station for children enrolled on the Child Sponsorship Program to being a meeting point for local community clubs and a distribution point for donations.
Community Program
The Community Program is one of the core components of Volunteer For The Visayans which handles local community and outreach projects.
The nature of the Community Program is highly diverse, serving a various number of independent projects. To date it is headed by Helena Claire "Wimwim" Canayong and supported by a number of various local volunteers.
Local Community Clubs
The Community Program coordinates six local community clubs: The Boys Club, The Girls Club, The Mothers Club, Juniors Club, Playtime Club and Laura's Craft.
The goal of the clubs varies from club-to-club, however generally they are created to empower local community members through the promotion of peer bonding, livelihood projects and skills training.
Outreach Projects
Outreach projects refers to the part of the Community Program that deals with communities outside of the local community.
Volunteer For The Visayans is highly committed to serving the whole of the Eastern Visayas and as a result has a number of projects extending to as far as Calbayog City on Samar, where a Nutrition Project was formed in 2010.
The flagship of the Community Programs outreach projects is the Dumpsite Project which acts to rehabilitate children working or previously working inside a local dumpsite and empowering them through means of education.
However it doesn't stop there, VFV continues to do further outreach projects such as the Adopt-A-School project which aims to provide remote and poor rural schools with school supplies and the Build-A-School project which aims to build and renovate classrooms in remote rural locations.
Local Community Projects
The local community projects refers to the various projects that are operated for the benefit of Volunteer For The Visayans local community, especially those living within close proximity of Barangay 64, BLISS Sagkahan.
In the past, VFV have performed local restoration projects such as the drainage project ran through the summer of 2010, the basketball court restoration project and the addressing of undernourished children within the local community.
To find out more about the Community Program and the services it runs email wimwim@visayans.org
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