Welcome

As we are in the process of fine tuning our socialenterprise business plan, expect to see more changes and modifications in our site as we seek guidance from the Lord and find our better fit into the current situation and needs of the youth in the islands. We welcome any suggestions from you.

Our former vision statement:

"One day, no youth is left alone to himself. Every youth of the islands is accounted, life-coached and is made accountable for his future, to his family, to his peers, to his community, to his country and to his faith." - YouthMatters (Philippines)

Our previous vision/mission statement will be changed and articulated even much better to make sure that we are aligned with our original calling.

Vision:

"Develop every youth of the islands as social change agents through their passion to share to others their passion for Jesus Christ!"

This blogsite is made in preparation for the launching of YouthMatters (Philippines) - a Christian Social Enterprise whose mission is to reach out to the youth generation of today, enlist them, provide life-coaching through self-discovery seminars and trainings and a sustainable continuous directed discipleship through active-learning activities with solid spiritual foundation that will usher each individual towards realizing his life's full potential and higher calling in a hope to make them change-agents in their families, their peers, their community and whatever subsequent profession or traditional livelihood industries they will focus their lives later on.

We still adhere to the original approach but we will add more to it to make the program even much better...

The outreach program entails 2 main major focus:

1. The establishment of a youth enlistment program - an avenue to develop quality bonding between the youth coach and his peers, a way of balancing resources from where there's much to areas where there's less; and, ...we are modifying this program slightly...

2. The establishment of a community of successful adults and organizations that they represent that will commit themselves to be as "life-coaches" to the youth companies (youth communities) that will be established.

The social enterprise is targetted to run its pilot phase in the Province of Siquijor. Target date to begin this school year 2009.

For further information and possible involvement, please contact:

Nerio J. Cloma
youthmatters@ymail.com
0929-3543228
Tagbilaran City, Bohol
3rd Social Entrepreneurship Laboratory Course
Ateneo de Manila University - School of Government
Rockwell - Makati