How we started
HELP for Peace began as an offshoot of various peace initiatives and reflections in 2004. It resonated the call for involvement of health professionals in the worldwide movement for peace. Sewn in a conflicted and oft-turbulent world, health professionals grew into and braved through difficult situations and environment such as in the hospitals, clinics and even in the public health arena.
Medical students, nurses and several specialist consultants joined in to form the HELP for Peace which was formally registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission in 2007. It is a common belief that peace is for all and health professionals have a palpable, direct relationship with the system that challenges the value of life.
Since then, HELP for Peace had further defined itself in terms of working with the most vulnerable and neglected members of modern society---the indigenous people. It also worked to ensure that doctors and nurses are ready to help out during times of disasters and conflicts.
It has developed the Barefoot Doctors Program and has been supportive of communal recovery and rehabilitation of persons and stakeholder groups. In 2013, with the immense challenge of helping out survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda, HELP for Peace extended its lifeline to communities that had been badly hit.
It now has on-going projects to provide livelihoods, shelter, sanitation and hygiene. In this thrust, HELP for Peace is proudest with its work that ensures limited use of natural resources and compounding of the carbon footprints by seeking to use technology and materials.
Medical students, nurses and several specialist consultants joined in to form the HELP for Peace which was formally registered with the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission in 2007. It is a common belief that peace is for all and health professionals have a palpable, direct relationship with the system that challenges the value of life.
Since then, HELP for Peace had further defined itself in terms of working with the most vulnerable and neglected members of modern society---the indigenous people. It also worked to ensure that doctors and nurses are ready to help out during times of disasters and conflicts.
It has developed the Barefoot Doctors Program and has been supportive of communal recovery and rehabilitation of persons and stakeholder groups. In 2013, with the immense challenge of helping out survivors of supertyphoon Yolanda, HELP for Peace extended its lifeline to communities that had been badly hit.
It now has on-going projects to provide livelihoods, shelter, sanitation and hygiene. In this thrust, HELP for Peace is proudest with its work that ensures limited use of natural resources and compounding of the carbon footprints by seeking to use technology and materials.