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25 JULY 2006
JVP now accepts applications for Batch 29 volunteers

Be a full-time JESUIT VOLUNTEER!

Now on its 28 th year, JVP continues to send volunteers across the country to render effective, faith-driven volunteer service.

Basic Qualities:

• Single
• 18 to 35 years old, at the time of acceptance to the program
• College graduate or graduating, at the latest, in April 2008
• In good physical health and has no physical impediments to work as a volunteer
• Psychologically balanced and emotionally mature
• Willing to serve in any area of assignment in the Philippines
• Available for one program year (May 2008 – April 2009)

Preferred Qualities:

• Strong involvement and leadership in community, parish, school activities and issues
• Very open to learning and effective in sharing skills and training
• Proficient in spoken and written English and Filipino
• Compassionate to the poor and marginalized

How can I apply?

Download (Right-click then Save as):

1. JVP Online Application Procedure
2. JVP Online Application Kit

Deadline for submission of volunteer application: 30 November 2007

Be a Volunteer Service Program (VSP) PARTNER INSTITUTION!

JVP continues to weave stories of hope through partnership with institutions that share our mission of empowerment and nation-building.

How can our institution request full-time volunteers?

JVP considers applications from all over the country: under-resourced schools, parishes, indigenous communities and non-profit organizations and is guided by the following criteria in selecting VSP Partner Institutions:

• Urgency of the Need for the Volunteer
• Volunteer’s Scope, Nature and Impact of Work
• Support Structure for the Volunteer
• Promotion of Volunteerism

1. Write a Letter of Intent (LOI) formally requesting volunteers (refer to Institution’s Online Application Procedure)  Address your letter to:
   
   The JVP Program Officers for Volunteer Service (POVS)
   313 Bellarmine Hall
   Ateneo de Manila University
   Loyola Heights, Quezon City
   
2. Download (Right-click then Save as):
   
   1. Institution’s Online Application Procedure
   2. Institution’s Application Kit
      
3. Thoroughly complete the form
4. Send both the (a) Letter of Intent and (b) JVP Institution Application Form either through:

• Courier services or conventional mail
• Telefax: (02) 4265908

SCHEDULE

Batch 26 in Retrospect

As the new set of Batch 27 Jesuit volunteers  have started their  service year in various provinces in the country, we look back to insights gained by the previous batch through the eyes of a Batch 26 volunteer and  a  member of their formation staff.

05 JULY 2006
Dave's Midyear Experience
by Benjoe Panahon
"Yes, five months have passed and all of us are still here. Changed, yet still here. Tired, yet still choosing to stay. Wounded, yet determined to persist until the end."

06JULY 2006
Musings of a Formation Staff Member of Batch 26
by Mayette Galang
In the end, I chose to serve again and I have never regretted that decision. It has been a lovely six months spent with them, a blessing I cherish everyday and that inspires me while I go on with the everyday busyness of my student life.

22 JUNE 2006
A Piano Concerto by Carmencita Sipin-Aspiras

To help support the volunteers, JVP will be holding a fund-raising classical piano concert on July 8. It is a concert for the arts and music circle that hopes to impart fine music and at the same time spread the story of JVP to people who would like to share JVP's mission. The artist, Carmencita Sipin-Aspiras, is an internationally renowned pianist who will be performing for JVP for free.

15 JUNE 2006
CARMENCITA SIPIN- ASPIRAS: UNITY AND HARMONY
Coming at the heels of the successful benefit concert held late last year that headlined musical artists Monique Wilson, Jamie Rivera, Bimbo Cerrudo and Jed Madela, the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) Foundation, Inc. once again promotes the talents and goodwill of Filipino musicians as it brings home classical concert pianist Carmencita Sipin- Aspiras for a one-night performance on July 8, 2006, 8 pm, at the Francisco Santiago Hall in Makati City.

24 MAY 2006
JVPFI Membership Program Orientation Seminar
INTERESTED APPLICANTS to the JVPFI Membership Program (Part-time volunteer service program) may attend the Orientation Seminar (Orsem) on May 27, 2006 (Saturday) at 1:00-5:30 pm at the East Asian Pastoral Institute Nebrada Terrace in Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. You may bring your accomplished application forms which you many download (here).

FORMER JESUIT VOLUNTEERS may continue to submit their confirmation documents on or before the Orsem date. (See related information.)

ORGANIZATIONS involved in DEVELOPMENT WORK WHO NEED VOLUNTEERS for their various activties MAY APPLY AS PARTNER INSTITUTIONS for the JVPFI membership Program. For more details, click (here).

26 APRIL 2006
More on the JVPFI Membership Program
The deadline for confirmation of membership is extended to May 27, 2006 (Saturday). Former volunteers of Batches 1-25 are still invited to submit their confirmation forms and personal data sheet to the Local Chapters or to the National Office.

(click here for the confirmation forms)
(click here for modes of submission)

All non-former Jesuit volunteers who are interested to become JVP part-time volunteers/associate members may submit their Application forms on or before May 27 to the Local Chapters or the National Office.

(click here for the application forms)

Applicants may submit their application letters and personal data sheet by any of the following modes:

• Personal delivery or mail to the Local chapter officers
• Email to the official email address of the Local Chapters
• Personal delivery, mail, email or fax to the National Office for those who have no Local chapters

(click here for the contact information of Local Chapters)

04 APRIL 2006
The JVPFI Membership Program
by Donna Vergara
After 25 years of running the full-time volunteer program, JVPFI embarks on a new chapter in its history with the launching of a part-time volunteer program that hopes to engage more people in nation-building through faith-driven service. Choose to be more involved in JVP as members, supporters, and cooperators.

JVPFI Membership Program Brochure (link)

Download your application form now!

• For membership confirmation letter
• For JVP Supporters and Cooperators
• Fill-out your Personal Data Sheet

14 NOVEMBER 2005
"There truly is joy in sharing."
"Congratulations on a fabulous, heart-warming celebration!" was the remark of a donor who went to the JVP benefit concert, “ The Joy of Sharing: Songs and Stories of Hope ” last November 13. "I will convince my five-year old son to join JVP," a judge who was also there said. "It was very successful and inspiring," according to some friends from the Society of Jesus Social Apostolate. "That was very inspiring" said some JVP parents. "I went to a very, very good concert last night," the president of Makati Medical Center and Asian Institute of Management narrated to a colleague. Read full article.

03 NOVEMBER 2005
JVP Concert Spreads Hope and Pride in Being Filipinos
The Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) is proud to hold a benefit concert on November 13, 2005, 6:30 in the evening at the Philam Life Theater entitled, "The Joy of Sharing:  Songs and Stories of Hope," featuring Ms. Monique Wilson, Ms. Jamie Rivera, Mr. Bimbo Cerrudo and Mr. Jed Madela. For ticket info click here.

03 OCTOBER 2005
JVP Batch 26 Volunteers
The JVP family welcomes the new batch of volunteers! For those who want to be a part of the JVP community, download the application procedure for Batch 27 here.

15 JULY 2005
From the JVP COMELEC: Choosing Leaders
As the highest leadership in JVP, the Board of Trustees is important and decisive of the future of our Foundation. Let us work together – Board, staff and members – to help JVP give its best contribution to build a just society especially for our brother and sister Filipinos in need.

14 JULY 2005
Going Into Battle
By: Nikko Viquiera, B25
When I look back at my own Mission Mass a year ago, I see an
incomplete picture with certain spots blurred by the beating of a
nervous and nostalgic heart and a confusing mixture of laughter and tears...

22 MAY 2005
The JVP Silver Homecoming: Coming Home
Close to a hundred former JVP volunteers attended the homecoming in Boracay last April 22-24, 2005. Read what one former volunteer wrote.

06 MAY 2005
BATCH 25- YearEnd Evaluation Seminar
By: Nikko Viquiera, B25
Notre Dame of San Jose, Koronadal, South Cotabato
On the cool and breezy last days of March and with the calm and smooth waves of Misamis Oriental for a postcard-perfect backdrop, JVP Batch 25 celebrated the completion of their year of service.

MARCH 2005
JVP-MLC Badminton Tournament
By: Dom Olinares, MLC LPA
The JVP Manila Local Community (MLC) Badminton Tournament held last February 13, 2005 at the Moro Lorenzo Sports Center, Ateneo de Manila University was a smashing success. Thirty-three former volunteers and friends joined the tourney while others came to watch and cheer the players on.

23 FEB 2005
JVP Batch 13 presents “PINOY TAYO!” – a rock concert featuring BAMBOO
The concert is part of the year-long celebration of JVP’s Silver Anniversary and aims to raise funds for Batch 26 (2005-2006). Read full article.

10 FEB 2005
JVP-CDO Undergoes Advent Retreat
December 2004
Members of the JVP-CDO local community goes to Sugbongcogon, Misamis Oriental for their advent retreat and come out energized and reassured of God's love.

9 FEB 2005
In Due Time
by Grace Milar
November 2004
The JVP-CDO local community organized a JVP Kumustahan-Kwentuhan for the single-digit batches to reconnect them to the Foundation. With the help of one of the former volunteers, Peter Unabia of Batch 4, the Rotary Club of Carmen Valley West pledged to sponsor a volunteer.

8 FEB 2005
Young artists hold an art exhibit for the benefit of JVP
by Shy Calo-Santos
DECEMBER 2004
Danica Rae Calo Santos, 7 years old, and Rosalie Grace Chee, 13 years old, unveiled their wonderful paintings for the public to view and buy. Proceeds of the exhibit will go to the JVP Foundation, Inc..

1 FEB 2005
Young Missionaries
by Raymz Maribojoc
printed in the Sunday magazine of The Philippine STAR
December 26, 2004
Every graduate of a Jesuit University remembers the initials AMDG. It stands for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Latin for "for the greater glory of God", the motto of the Society of Jesus. Formed to serve as missionaries, instructors and ministers to the sick, poor, and marginalized, the Jesuits today strive to spread the spirit of faith, service and generosity that their founder, St. Ignatius de Loyola, embodied.

31 JAN 2005
JVP Batch 22 sponsors another "fool for Christ" in Batch 25
by Nikki Hipolito
"Imagine the power of one, multiplied several times over...Together we can Make a Difference" This was the theme for the International Year of the Volunteer in 2001. These words were written on the JVP shirts of Batch 22.

29 JAN 2005
Look, Dig, Stretch and Reach
by Jo Maribojoc
Looking far back, digging deep, stretching wide, and reaching high. This is what JVP has been doing since the Silver Year started in May 2004. Throughout this program year, we have been looking far back to our beginnings and where we have been to see what brought us to wherewe are. Then we can choose where to go.

25 JAN 2005
MLC extends invitation to all LCs for the Feb 13 Badminton Tournament
Isa ka ba sa daan-daang taong nahuhumaling sa badminton? May itinatago ka bang talento sa paghampas ng shuttlecock? May cool and comfy badminton outfit ka bang nakatago lang sa cabinet? At siyempre, gusto mo bang makisaya kasama ang iyong mga batchmates at iba pang mga alumni ngayong ika-25 taon na ng JVP?

22 JAN 2005
It's Time to share your Fortune
Subscribe to Time and Fortune Magazines for one year through JVP and get a big special discount and a free gift. Your subscription entitles you to the magazine of your choice and enables you to support JVP with your donation of 15% of the special subscription rate.
[DOWNLOAD Flyer]
[DOWNLOAD List of Magazines and Price List]

13 DEC 2004
JVP joins the International Volunteer Day Celebrations
by Trina J. Pineda
On International Volunteer Day last December 5, 2004, the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) Foundation Inc. joined various groups sharing the vision to promote volunteerism in the Philippines in a special celebration dubbed “Discover. Act. Volunteer. A Volunteer Fair to Celebrate Everyday Heroes" at the Intramuros’ Clamshell 2.

22 DEC 2004
Christmas Greetings and Announcements
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a consipiracy of love." (Hamilton Wright Madi)

As we celebrate the birth of Christ, let us celebrate His love and
life-giving work of building lives and communities. Let us together
pray for our nation.

From all of us in the JVP Central Office, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The JVP Central Office will be closed from December 22, 2004 to January 4, 2005. Please transact business on January 5, 2005. Thank you.

6 DEC 2004
Typhoons: Multiplication and More
by Jo Maribojoc
Five loaves of barley bread and two fish… Miracles still do happen.

23 NOV 2004
JVP Grand Reunion Poll
Answer our current POLL on when and where to hold our upcoming reunion! Poll ends on November 30, 2004.

23 NOV 2004
Update on Organizational Diagnosis FGDs
by: Trina J. Pineda, Program Officer for Communications
The first phase of the JVP organizational diagnosis commenced in the JVP local communities. The foundation is very grateful to those who participated.

22 NOV 2004
Christmas is here, bringing hope and cheer!
JVP is offering you the chance to earn and donate to JVP by operating a booth from December 1 (or sooner) to January 16, 2005 at the fun-filled "Paskong Pasiklab" fair in Philcoa Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City.

21 NOV 2004
2005 Hope Calendars
If there is one thing we cannot afford to lose, it is hope. With life comes hope.

8 OCT 2004
2nd JVP Recruitment Talk
Change of schedule. See calendar of events on the right.

5 OCT 2004
A Letter for the JVP Community
Author: Kang G. Sonza
Allow me to first thank you again for your interest in JVP. This month is the last stretch for Application to JVP Batch 26, SY 2005-2006.

2 OCT 2004
State of the Foundation Address
Author: Jo Maribojoc, Executive Director
We are all angels with one wing and we need each other to fly.

24 SEPT 2004
JVPFI undergoes organizational audit with CORD by Trina J. Pineda
The Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation, Inc. (JVPFI) and the Center for Organization Research and Development (CORD) entered into a Memorandum of Agreement last September 15, 2004 for CORD to conduct an organizational audit of the foundation.

22 SEPT 2004
JVP Rocks CDO by Shy Calo-Santos, Batch 10/11
The Cagayan de Oro Local Community is all geared up for the silver anniversary of the Volunteer Service Program.

20 SEPT 2004
JVP Recruitment Talk Schedules
This is Kang Sonza, the Assistant Program Officer for Volunteer Service (APOVS) of Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation, Inc.(JVPFI). Allow me to first thank you again for your interest in JVP.

13 AUG 2004
A Post-GA Message
Can it be done? Can we raise the attendance at the General Assembly and lunch program to a hundred? Can we share the General Assembly with the local communities outside of Manila?

5 AUG 2004
A Letter for the JVP Community
Nangangarap pa kaya sila? Yesterday, I was sitting next to the high school students of Myke and Girlie, JVP volunteers currently assigned in an island in Masbate.

4 AUG 2004
JVP Celebrates its 25th Year of Service
Trina J. Pineda, Program Officer for Communications
In a span of twenty-five years, the Volunteer Service Program of the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) Foundation has sent hundreds of young college graduates and professionals to serve in social development institutions all over the country for at least a year.

4 AUG 2004
Speakers at JVP's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Trina J. Pineda, Program Officer for Communications
Senator Mar Roxas and DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman will be the guest speakers at the lunch program in celebration of the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation Inc.'s (JVPFI) 25th anniversary on August 8, 2004 at the Escaler Hall, Science Education Complex at the Ateneo de Manila University.

10 JUNE 2004
We are all carpenters.
Jo Maribojoc, Executive Director
In the Mission Mass two weeks ago, my heart leapt when I saw and got to know the many faces in the JVP Community to whom I write.

12 MAY 2004
A Letter for the JVP Community
Jo Maribojoc, Executive Director
It is not Valentine’s Day, but this is a message of love.