October 18, 2024

Health, Education, Economic Empowerment, Social Inclusion and Equity, Peace-Building and Security, Governance, Active Citizenship, Environment, Global Mobility

Tiaong Chapter Pag-Asa Youth Association of the Philippines, Inc The Pag-Asa Youth Association of the Philippines, Inc. or PYAP is a duly constituted barangay-based organization of the out of school-youth between 15-30 years old who are clientele of the DSWD. The PYAP was first incorporated on July 29, 1974 with the SEC under the name of Pag-Asa Youth Movement Inc. and thus become an affiliate organization of the DSWD. As a result of innovative programs and services and further strengthening the capabilities of the youth program, the PYM Inc. changed its name to PYAP Inc. based on its new SEC Registration Number 01328, approved on April 12, 1996. The PYAP is organized nationwide and is federated from the Municipal, City/Provincial, Regional and National Levels. The PYAP Federation of different levels serves as a strategy that provides forum to discuss youth issues and concerns related to their projects and come up with solutions/recommendations addressed to both the youth and other system involved in program planning and implementation. The OIC MSWDO Rosita R. Lopez, RSW assigned Ms. Daryl Q. Martelino, Social Welfare Officer II to facilitate the organization of PYAP at Barangay Level. She identifies the barangay with highest incidence of OSYs, attended meeting of Liga ng mga Barangay Chairperson and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Federations to detailed discuss the Unlad Kabataan Program (UKP) and PYAP and to identify out-of-school youth (OSY) leaders. The organization established on March 15, 2024 through first regular meeting of Out-of-School Youth Leaders/Coordinators and became called The Tiaong Chapter PYAP, a duly constituted barangay-based organization of the in-school and out of school-youth from the 31 barangays within the Municipality of Tiaong whose age is between 15-30 years old. On August 30, 2024 during the celebration of Linggo ng Kabataan 2024 happened the 1st Tiaong Chapter - PYAP Assembly and one of the highlights is the election of Municipal Federation Officers. This organization focused the out of school youth. The following objectives of PYAP are: • To encourage, facilitate and create opportunities for self-expression and attainment of proper attitudes and behavior among the youth for self-fulfillment and social awareness. • To engage the youth in various activities that will promote their social and economic development such as: food production, volunteer community service, health and nutrition, population awareness, protection and conservation of natural resources and improvement of the natural environment. • To strengthen basic social, moral and cultural values, enhance social functioning, develop human expandability of the youth for the betterment of his/her family and community. • To provide special services for the protection, rehabilitation and training of youth with special needs as those who are alienated, delinquent, neglected, abused, exploited, those with disabilities and those in cultural communities, etc. • To maintain a program of collaboration and cooperation with government and non-government organization for the youth in all sectors and at all levels in the community