CYDF USA Journal 4 - Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc.

CYDF USA, (INC.) JOURNAL
Calantas Barrio Fiesta Celebration & Annual Board Meeting
In Honor of Apung Sto. Cristo (3rd Saturday of May)
The Founder called for the First Organizational Meeting of the Calantas
Children at 985 Cottonwood Lake, Hellyer Park in San Jose, CA. 95111 on April
10, 2004, to discuss and establish a sister Foundation of the Calantas Young
Dreamers Foundation, Inc. in the State of California and it shall be registered in
the beautiful City of San Francisco, CA (the seat of its main office) as: CYDF
USA, Inc.
Both Foundations share a common mission of helping indigent but
deserving talented youth in the Philippines with CYDF USA, Inc. having a
distinct mission to serve the Filipino-American aging population in the USA by
establishing a chain of nonprofit medical model healthcare facility imbedded
with ethnic-specific psyho-socio-emotional, religious and culturally-sensitive
services for the Filipino-American aging population in the San Francisco Bay
Area and across the USA.
Declaration of Mission of the CYDF USA, (Inc)
It is the love for our country that we bond ourselves and take the mission
of CYDFI Philippines to respond in our own little way to the ideals, aspirations
and dreams in life of our youth living in abject poverty found in Philippine
rural areas like Calantas and Nabuclod Aeta Community through a Scholarship
Program Model with a Methodology, called: SWREM Theory In Action,
designed to help them help themselves so they can help incoming scholars
leading to breaking their cycle of poverty as they learn to become socially
responsible, with implications not only to personal but community growth and
development, as well.
We intend to serve, also, our Filipino-American “high-risk” youth and
their families in the San Francisco Bay Area through Community Youth
Empowerment Programs that promote positive self-image, enhancement of
self-esteem, development of life and leadership skills;
Further, we intend to establish, too, a nonprofit medical model healthcare
facility that is imbedded with ethnic-specific psycho-socio-emotional, religious
and culturally-sensitive services for the Filipino-American aging population in
the San Francisco Bay Area and promote advocacy replication of said model in
other parts of the country.
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