ARCORES FILIPINAS
June 19, 2024—The Augustinian Recollect International Solidarity Network or ARCORES Philippines together with the University of San Jose-Recoletos-Center for Recollect Community Engagement and Social Involvement (CRCESI) and the San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish of Talisay City, Negros Occidental delivered 16 sacks of rice, boxes of canned goods, noodles, hygiene kits, face masks and tissue packs for the victims of the eruption of Mr. Kanlaon. It can be recalled that Negros Island’s lone active volcano erupted last June 3 and in just two days brought down lahar (pyroclastic mud) flowing into seven barangays of La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Based on the…
ARCORES launches Solar Dream Project among Tagbanua communities in Palawan
ARCORES Filipinas started distributing fifty (50) solar lighting kits to the Tagbanua families in Aborlan and Brgy. Inagawan, and in Liminangcong last February 28, 2022. The Tagbanua community in Palawan is part of the Recoletos parish community of San Rafael in Aborlan. The ARCORES Solar Dream project aims to provide sustainable assistance to families displaced…
A Promise Delivered: Ansulag ES receives armchairs from CEDO, YACAP
San Carlos City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL–Forty brand-new armchairs are now in two classrooms of Ansulag Elementary School, Barangay Rizal, San Carlos City. On February 17, 2022, Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos Community Extension and Development Office (CEDO) officially turned over the armchairs to Ansulag ES. Fray Vicente Ramon, Jr., OAR, CEDO director, and Fray Joel Alve, OAR,…
LEC Dedication Highlights the “Season of Creation” at CST-R
SAN CARLOS CITY, Negros Occidental – “Lord, bless the works of our hands. “ In a solemn and profound ceremony, Thomasian administrators and faculty members blessed and dedicated the newly established Laudato Si’ Environmental Center (LEC) last September 30, 2021. The event commemorates the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) “Season of Creation”…
Abag Rekoleto deployed for Barangay 6 fire victims
SAN CARLOS CITY, Negros Occidental – Just as people were beginning to anticipate the last quarter of 2021 and the year-end holidays, at least 86 families lost their homes to a fire in Barangay 6, San Carlos City, last August 31, 2021, that started at around 11 in the morning. Responding to the immediate…
CST-R, 3 Public Schools, Brgy. Rizal Now Partners through G.U.G.M.A.
San Carlos City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL—The Thomasian family now includes three public elementary schools in Barangay Rizal, San Carlos City. Under the Community Extension and Development Office (CEDO) of Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos, the adoption of Ansulag, Katiclan and Nabataan Elementary Schools marks the beginning of a partnership “to provide education, values formation and basic social…
Heart Solidarity Award in the Philippines
Note: This article is also posted on the official website of ARCORES International (https://www.arcores.org/heart-solidarity-award/) ARCORES International, the social arm of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, recognizes, giving “the Heart Solidarity Award”, the exemplary efforts of organizations animated by the religious communities and partners during the covid pandemic in the Philippines. The 2020 Heart Solidarity Campaign…
CaReS Kindness Station inaugurated
Baguio City— Aside from the virus, kindness is also contagious. Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary (CaReS) officially inaugurates CaReS Kindness Station on the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, last May 1, 2021. Also on the celebration of National Labor Day, 64 indigent beneficiaries received rice, goods, bread, and perishable goods such as vegetables and spices, poultry…
ARCORES and USJ-R promote “Help Slow Down the Spread of COVID-19” program
CEBU CITY–The ARCORES-International, in coordination with USJ-R INFECOP, continues the Project, “Help Slow Down the Spread of COVID-19” by giving out facemasks and bath soaps to two groups of beneficiaries: the first group consisted of the 949 People Deprived of Liberty (PDL) and the 51 Bureau of Jail Management and the Penology (BJMP) Staff of…
A Vaccine for All
For almost a year in this pandemic, we are still hoping for a cure to the dreaded COVID-19. Death toll continues to rise. Before the end of this month, almost 2.5 million deaths worldwide have been recorded (as of February 19, 2021, approximately 2,448,188 deaths). And yet, the vaccine war is creating instability in the…
