Dear Volunteers/Supporters/Friends,
This has been an incredible year for Volunteer for the Visayans (VFV) Non-profit organization! We inaugurated our community center, hosted medical relief clinics, built our first home, constructed a playground, expanded our child sponsorship program, and added dozens of new projects. Thank you to all of our friends and supporters, you really are making a difference in this corner of the world!
Sincerely,
Troy Peden
New Community Center Opened with Great Ceremony
Opening Ceremony Attended by Officials and Media
The Volunteer for the Visayans celebrated its anniversary as well as the grand opening of the VFV center last July 25-29, 2005. The week-long celebration was full of various activities which was then participated in by some local and foreign volunteers, as well as, the local government officials together.
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New Center Staff
With the growth of the Volunteer for the Visayans comes the need - and most welcome addition - of some people to the family of the Volunteer for the Visayans.
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New Online Calendar, Details Daily Activities
With the advent of the information technology, the best way to involve oneself with overseas activity is going on-line.
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New Projects in the Works
Garbage Dumpsite Children
It started with a visit to the Compost Production Area which was located within the perimeters of the city dump site. Standing in front of the makeshift building of the production site, I could see some people going to and fro carrying bulky sacks atop their heads to which I found out contained recyclable materials.
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Eco-Park in Santa Fe
The Volunteer for the Visayans will be undertaking an ambitious project utilizing hectares of lot situated in Brgy. Hinapolon, few kilometers ahead from town proper of Sta Fe. Together with the sponsoring organization, local government officials and environmentalist will tie up in sharing their knowledge to local and foreign volunteers of propagating additional income of land used.
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Adopt a School
The island of Leyte is the largest Visayan Island in the Philippines. Education is an important part of Filipino culture, but unfortunately, most schools do not have the funds to provide their students and teachers with basic school supplies, such as pencils, paper, books, or chalk. In most rural schools, the school is a one room building, with one teacher and several grades are taught together in the one classroom.
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Child Sponsorship Update
VFV's Child Sponsorship Program is a proof and inspiration of how such benevolent endeavors can evidently make an impact and touch the lives of not just the needy children but also all the people involved in this undertaking such as the sponsors, the volunteers, the kuyas and ates (big brothers/ sisters), the VFV staff, the local individuals helping out, the parents and families of the children, the people in the communities where these children reside, the teachers in the schools where they study, and other people who have known about the program.
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Thanks for All Your Support!
Gustavo Artaza Sponsors Children
One of the first people who heeded our call for help with our Child Sponsorship Program is Gustavo Artaza and he did not just sponsor one child but 5!
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IES Builds a Basketball Court and Supports Project Children
Aside from taking part in the Child Sponsorship Program where they sponsored one child, IES sponsored the project of renovating the basketball court in BLISS Housing Project in front of the VFV Community Center.
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Volunteer from Iraq Gives Time and Support
A US Army as she is but deep inside she has this big heart to reach out and help the children of a developing country- Philippines.
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New Child Sponsors
The sponsorship program had been extending help to those children belonging in an indigent family in the Philippines, particularly in Leyte.
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Children Incorporated Expands Sponsorships to Bliss Project
The Volunteer for the Visayans which is based in the Philippines, is a non-government organization which caters programs and projects to the children through the child sponsorship program.
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Volunteers from Around The World
Volunteers for the Visayans mainstay are the volunteers coming from different countries of the world the like of US, Canada, Spain, UK, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and many others.
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International Organizations Sending Volunteers
Our success in bringing international volunteers to our side of the world to experience and be immersed in our culture won't be a complete success without the partnership that we have with different volunteer organizations.
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Volunteer for the Visayans News 
Volunteers for the Visayans had two medical missions already. This project is entailed to help the underprivileged. We provide them free consultations from different doctors like Pediatrician, Family Medicine, OB-gyne, Dentist, Surgery, Medicine and gave out free medicines also. 