About Working Hands

Working Hands Scholarship Foundation, Inc.

In the beginning, "Working Hands", launched in December 1995, was a scholarship program conceptualized and spearheaded by the Young Upbeat Professionals for Peace (YUPPEACE), a people's organization founded in 1994 for the 10th World Youth Day in the Philippines. In November 1996, it was spun off as Working Hands Scholarship Foundation, Inc., a non-stock, not-for-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The end in mind, when Working Hands was created, was the vision of a manpower base of educated and well-trained young workers who, by way of being productive, responsibly contribute to economic nation-building. The organization believes that it is not enough just to send the out-of-school youth to school. Fortressed by values like social responsibility and psycho-spiritual growth, the trained youth must be able to work and earn after being graduated from the training centers.

Vision - Mission

We commit ourselves to:

• Provide education & technical skills training that will equip the out-of-school youth, from financially-challenged families, to be academically & technologically qualified to become productive citizens of a society;
• Provide spiritual & value formation to the youth in order to enable them to become living examples of Christ in the community they live;
• Organize our graduates into a young workers’ association conscious of their roles as social catalysts along the lines of the YUPPEACE spirituality & commitment towards the Christian animation of the work force; and,
• In order to sustain the scholarship program, continuously raise & maintain financial & logistic resources.

YUPPEACE is a movement committed to the youth, a faith community of young professionals that provides psycho-spiritual formative programs to its members. More about YUPPEACE at www.yuppeace.com

Current Objectives

• To grant more scholarships in rural-based Don Bosco Technical Centers.
• To include information technology (IT) courses in the Foundation’s list of scholarship grants.
• To organize the Foundation’s graduates for monitoring, retraining, and upgrading programs.

Our Dream

• of reaching out to every needy youth; from the streets of a booming city to the farms of a sleepy countryside;
• of having 200 globally-competitive graduates as the new millennium sets in;
• of revitalizing its technical programs and expanding its current vocational courses to include information technology (IT) courses;
• of stronger industry links & heightened public awareness on the plight of needy and out-of-school youth; and,
• of metamorphosing from a granting foundation into an operating foundation.

Board of Trustees

• Ofelia C. Bautista
• Evangeline A. Bautista
• Ma. Regina I Bundang
• Alex Richard O. Herrera
• Fr. Armand Robleza, SDB
• Fr. Xavier Alpasa, SJ
• Marianita L. Ong
• Dorotea F. Alantara
• Almi Rosalie Olitan Nuguid
• Irene Sy
• Ramon C. Santos
• Cora D. Soriano
• Ma. Mita Angela M. Dimalanta
• Irma Japson

Executive Committee

• Ofelia C. Bautista, President
• Evangeline A. Bautista, CFO
• Ma. Regina I Bundang, Corporate Secretary
• Irene Sy, Auditor
• Marianita L. Ong, Executive Assistant