Overview

Who we are

The Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. (TBNOFWBPOFWOI) is a non-stock/non-profit organization, a communal membership-based migrant worker-survivor- community led organization that provides community-centered and facilitate a result-based programs, leaving no one behind in overcoming socioeconomic challenges by equipping the community with practical and essential skills and tools in transforming the community to a sustainable and resilient society.

Why We Organize

Accessing government reintegration program and social services left returnees, survivors and migrant workers in an elusive and challenging position. While migration social impact prevails making situation more difficult to overcome. The cycle of vulnerability continues, and intervention is demanding due to information traffic, exclusion, community capacity, awareness and access to association. This is the reason behind the founding of Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. who shared similar aspiration and vision. A migrant worker – survivor led organization taking a role in finding alternative solution and instilling sustainability and resiliency in overcoming challenges by identifying the gaps, creating and developing realistic and practical approach based in migrant – survivor lived-in experience in reducing migration social impact, socio-economic sustainability, and resilient future. Timpuyog Organization believes in participatory and in a societal- centered approach in reducing migration impact and social challenges through community building, awareness, inclusive social engagement, accountability, collaborative action, partnership and representation.

Pillars of Timpuyog

Blossoms of Hope

The Blossoms of Hope is a theory of change on how our community collectively asserts social transformation. How the Pillars of Hope of Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. as community stewards creating social action in achieving realistic and impactful solution to the barriers and challenges our community is facing, turning the situation as an opportunity to instill awareness, increase community capacity, reinventing social reforms, and building community accountability. The perseverance of the community is the soul of our operation. Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. provide a route and lays the foundation to increasing social engagement, argent family bond, stronger youth leadership, competitive community output, assertive feminist’s leadership, safer migration, stronger cultural significance, accountability and happier community.

Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. designed its operational processes placing the community cultural identity in the heart of our operation. The Pillars of Hope shared values and vision take a lead in assessment, planning, implementing monitoring and evaluating processes increasing effective output and reducing assumptions. The community centered approach of Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. develop and strengthen community participation and increases community certitude to accountability and decision making. This Blossoms of Hope may provide a context of the Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. to better understanding in the works that our community in building to achieve.

Our Key Challenges

✅ Family Dynamic

✅ Social Exclusion

✅ Mental Health

✅ Social Exclusion

 

✅ Family Dynamic

✅ Social Exclusion

Our Focus Areas

Social Integration

Integrating migrant – survivor/ returnees back to the community in finding alternative source on income and in access to social services can affect the well-being of migrants and their ability to fully participate in their new
communities

Community Inclusion

Opportunity to live and exist as a contributing member of the community while being valued for one’s abilities and uniqueness — regardless of disability.

Capacity Building

Empowering the community with practical skills, and tools in building result-based solution to socio- economic challenges and r resiliency.

Family Dynamics

Migration have significant effects on family structures. While remittances can improve the financial situation of families left behind, the absence of family members can lead to emotional and social challenges

Livelihood Program

Empowering the community with practical skills, and tools in building result-based solution to socioeconomic challenges.

Youth Leadership

Strengthen youth leadership capacity through skills development, mentoring, advocacy enchantment and community engagement.

Gender Equality

Eliminate all forms of gender-based violence that hinder communities’ social inclusion. Transforming community strength to inclusive leadership.

Advocacy Development

Instill specific outcomes and interventions creating impact to the community.

Our Program Implementation Cycle

Programs are vehicles for action that realize the Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. vision, mission, and objectives. Without programs implemented, the Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. will not exist.

Each stage of the cycle is designed to guarantee the community guidelines, program guidelines and organization values are realized by the beneficiaries, implementors and evaluators. Enable the community to further identify, align, recognize and understand the needs in a community and the direction of the program.

Who Do We Work With

Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) & Migrant Survivors / Returnees

Overseas Filipino Workers family members

Youth ~ Children of OFW’s

Marginalized members of the Community

Feminist and the LGBTQ+

Indigenous Tribes of Cordillera Region

What Do We Provide

Timpuyog ti Baro a Namnama ti OFW ken Balligi ti Pamilya ti OFW iti Baguio City Organization Inc. exist because of the growing needs to reduce social suffering, the needs to provide inclusive space to engage, to bind community to work collectively and mitigate the impact of social challenges to the community.

Leadership Development
Community Inclusion
Awareness Campaign & Education
Livelihood Skills & Reintegration
Community Engagement & Support
Psychosocial

Partners and Affiliates

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