I. Name: CULTURAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM

II. Site: NORTHVILLE 9

Iba O’este, Calumpit, Bulacan

III. Implementing Organization: KAISA CEAP BULACAN

IV. Lead Institution: LA CONSOLACION UNIVERSITY PHILIPPINES

V. Collaborating Schools:V. Collaborating Schools:

� ST. MARY’S COLLEGE – BALIUAG

� ST. MARY’S COLLEGE – MEYCAUAYAN

� ST. MARY’S ACADEMY – HAGONOY

� ASSUMPTA ACADEMY – BULACAN

� LA CONSOLACION SHOOL – BALAGTAS

� HOLY SPIRIT ACADEMY OF MALOLOS

� ST. PAUL COLLEGE – SAN MIGUEL

� ST. PAUL COLLEGE – BOCAUE

� ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

VI. Components:

� Alternative Night College

� B.S. Entrepreneurship

� B.S. Office Administration

� TESDA Courses

� Values Education

� Skills Training

� Literacy & Numeracy� Literacy & Numeracy

� Youth Leadership

� Feeding Program

� Capacity Building for Visioning of the Community’s

Future

VII. La Consolacion University Philippines as Champion University

for Poverty Alleviation (formerly Regina Carmeli College and

University of Regina Carmeli)

� 1987 – birth of the outreach program

� 1987– establishment of the Mo. Rita Barcelo Outreach

Center

� 1990 – institutionalization of the community extension

program through the founding and SEC registration of

the Mo. Rita Barcelo Outreach and Livelihood Corp. the Mo. Rita Barcelo Outreach and Livelihood Corp.

(MRBOLC)

� Programs/projects of MRBOLC

� Early Childhood Education (Day Care Centers)

� Community Building

� Water and Sanitation (WatSan)

� Adult Night High School

� Livelihood Program

� Socialized Housing Program (Mo. Rita Homes in

Bulacan, Zambales and Negros Oriental) with the

funding assistance from the Committee of

German Doctors.

� Health & Medical Services through the Plaridel

Emergency Hospital (now the La Consolacion

University General Hospital In Plaridel, Bulacan)

� Credit Facility for Small Business

� 1999 – establishment of the Barasoain Center for

Innovative Education (BarCIE)

• Alternative Night College – a specially designed mode of college education for working non-

professionals who wish to obtain a degree and

gain opportunities for self improvement

• People’s Learning Center (PLC) – a special secondary curriculum for students at risk who

opted to leave the formal secondary education or

who cannot be accommodated in the formal

secondary education due to behavior.

• San Ildefonso Catholic Mission School – a secondary school designed for children of farmers

in Pinaod, San Ildefonso, Bulacan

• MaOC (Masile One Classroom School) – a special mission school for children of fisherfolks in Masile, mission school for children of fisherfolks in Masile,

City of Malolos.

• Graduate Equivalency for Credit Program (GEC) –a special graduate program for professionals

holding supervisory positions for at least 5 years.

• LCUP at San Rafael - a specially designed mode of college education for the youth of San Rafael,

Bulacan

� St. Augustine International Institute of Justice and

Peace (SAIIJP) – an institute for the advocacy of

justice, peace, gender sensitivity, integrity of

creation

� 2003 – Social Advocacy through the development of

the 2-volume Transformative Education Sourcebook

with emphasis on justice and peace, integrity of

creation, gender sensitivity, and political issues and creation, gender sensitivity, and political issues and

concerns in collaboration with CEAP and sponsorship

of Phoenix Publishing House.

� 2006 – Tahanang Mapagkalinga ni Madre Rita (TMMR)

– a halfway house for street and abandoned children

� Instruction Related Extension Service (IRCES) –

service rendered in the community by students in line

with their field of specialization.

� Awards Received by LCUP

• RCBC-SIKAP NATIONAL AWARD for Most Outstanding Community Development Project

for the Year 1998

• Best in Community Extension in Region 3 in 2008.2008.

SURVEY RESULTS

Respondents

Luzon : 11

NCR : 7

Visayas : 6

Mindanao : 5Mindanao : 5

A. CURRICULUM

� Integration in all Christian Formation or Living Education, APP,

TLE, EPP, CAT, Economics

� Social Orientation

� Night High School

� TESDA courses

� CWTS (NSTP 1 & 2

� Development course, Entrepreneurship, Intro. to Agrarian Reform � Development course, Entrepreneurship, Intro. to Agrarian Reform

and Taxation, Business Planning

� Linking development issues important to adopted communities

with the university’s research, instruction, personnel expertise

and external resources.

B. RESEARCH

� Surveys on commodities, living conditions, overpopulation,

malnourishment, OFWs, ecotourism, community-based culinary

tourism

� Researches conducted on the extension program of the

universities

� Transformative Education – Sourcebook and Textbook

� Needs analysis� Needs analysis

� Community visits and consultations

C. CAMPUS PRACTICES & STRUCTURE

� Fund for student assistants, scholarship grants to poor but

deserving students

� Preservation of school properties, waste management

� Simple lifestyle/SAPAT Principles

� Augustinian values

� Service learning (activities based on the specialization of the

college/department)college/department)

� Monthly and monetary offerings/donations

� Outreach, immersions, medical missions, relief operations

D. PROJECTS/ACTIVITIES

� Collaborations with local government units and agencies

� Outreach programs, feeding program, vocational/livelihood

training, disaster relief

� Scholarship programs

� Farm school

� Gift – giving on Christmas, fund raising

� Pondo ng Pinoy

� Peace month, symposia, seminar-workshop on self-reliance� Peace month, symposia, seminar-workshop on self-reliance

� Observation of justice and peace in the campus

E. SCHOOL POLICIES

� Pro-poor, direct service to the poor, poverty alleviation through

students’ clubs

� Promotion of Augustinian culture of commitment in charity,

action and contemplation, diffusion of Augustinian love to those

who have less

� Open admission

� Ethics of Enough – live simply so that others may simply live� Ethics of Enough – live simply so that others may simply live

� Use of indigenous materials

� Faculty exposure to informal settlers

� Policy on sensible spending

F. ADVOCACY

� Development of program on values formation

� Reduction of junk food

� Paulinians for God and others

� Stewardship of creation, community service

� Equal opportunity to education, night high school, Saturday

school

� Uplift the economic status of people inside and outside the � Uplift the economic status of people inside and outside the

campus

� Simplicity, truth, justice, peace and integrity of creation, women

� Pondo ng Bayan, Alay Kapwa

G. OUTREACH/COMMUNITY EXTENSION

� Livelihood training in adopted barangays

� Integrated community building program, alternative-innovative

education programs, social advocacy

� Partnership with government and non-government agencies

� Gift-giving, solicitation and distribution of funds to indigents,

� Socialized housing program

� School of the deaf� School of the deaf

� Participation in Gawad Kalinga

� Agri-based training activities

� Medical missions, feeding program

� Bahaginan, livelihood projects

� Training on cooperativism

� Donation during calamities

� Alay Pasko

H. OTHERS

� Educational grants

� Resource mobilization, advocacy and nerworking

� Study now pay later

� Skills training for OSY

� Parents’ council livelihood program

OBSERVATIONS:

�Some schools did not answer all items in the survey

�Some outreach programs are mere activities, some are seasonal

activities (e.g., Christmas gift-giving, etc)

�Some activities are mere dole-outs which will make the people

more dependent.

�There is a need to establish a holistic poverty alleviation program

that would enable the partner communities to become self-reliant

and self-determining. and self-determining.