Category: Stories
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Busog-Puso ng Mission Station
by GLADYS T. BADLON [The writer is formerly a Jesuit Volunteer (B40/41). She was missioned at the Jesuit Mission Station for two years, from June 2019 – June 2021. She is currently the Community Organizer at the Jesuit Mission Station in Kaunlaran Village, Brgy. 12, Dagat-dagatan Ave., Kalookan City.] “When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming…
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JVP’s Ministry to the Youth
by Ms. Aimee Apolinario, JVP-B20 Service. Social Justice. Spirituality. Simplicity. Solidarity. These five core values of the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) stick to each volunteer long after one leaves his/her mission area. This is why it was easy to invite speakers to participate in a service interaction with the youth. Last November 28, 2020, sixteen…
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URC Extends Support to JVP
by Ms. Aimee Apolinario, JVP-B20 Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) is grateful for the support it received from Universal Robina Company (URC) last April 6, 2021, through its Senior Exports Manager, Mr. Gene Ladrido, JVP-B17. URC provided 35 cases of various food items. These were immediately distributed to the communities of the Philippine Jesuit Prison Service in Muntinlupa City and…
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JVP and ADNU Joins the ‘Revolution of Kindness’ Spreading Across the Country
by Margarita Felipe Fajardo (JVP B15) Inspired by Ms. Ana Patricia Non’s Maginhawa community pantry, Fr. Roberto E. N. Rivera, S. J., President of Ateneo de Naga University (ADNU), also followed the revolution of kindness spreading all over the Philippines by setting up the ADNU community pantry. Through the ADNU Center for Community Development (CCD) headed…
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RIVERMAN’S VISTA: Fr. Bill, Mindanao, and the Jesuit volunteers
Fr. Bill, a New York native who became a Filipino citizen in the late 1970s. was appointed President of Ateneo de Zamboanga in 1989 and served in that school for 18 years. In that assignment, Fr Bill was at his peak as a leader. Among others, he was looked up to as a civic leader…