— By Maureen Carroll, Board Member at Large For the past nearly 25 years, dozens of leaders in the Peace Corps and the volunteer service community have slowly but steadily developed the design concept, the Congressional legislation and the financial
Ituloy Team Spotlight: Jenifer Halili
— By Ricardo Espitia, PCAFPD Student Affairs The bread and butter of PCAFPD are our scholars. Part of the magic behind the success of the PCAFPD program is the volunteer-Manila-based, Ituloy Team. The team administers the day-to-day operations of the
Forty Years of Impact
By: Justin Tabor, PCAFPD President As part of our celebration of PCAFPD’s 40th Anniversary, the Board conducted an impact study to see how scholarships had affected our graduates’ lives. Since 1983 PCAFPD has sponsored 380 scholars. For this study we
A Message from The Philippines Embassy in Washington, D.C
By: Ambassador Jose Manuel G. Romualdez On behalf of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines, I wish to extend my warmest greetings to the Peace Corps Alumni Foundation for Philippine Development (PCAFPD) on the occasion of the 60th
PCAFPD Announces Inaugural Grant Awardees
It brings great joy to share the news that PCAFPD has selected two winners for the inaugural year of the PCAFPD Human Development Grant. Our call for proposals pulled in nearly 20 applications from across Mindanao, Visayas, and Luzon island
PCAFPD 2018-2021 Scholar Introductions!
PCAFPD Scholars from 2018 to present, minus our newest scholar additions, introduced themselves over video in July of 2021! A special thanks to the Ituloy team for getting this together, and to our talented scholars Rubuen Mayang and Donna Jalipa for
PC 60th Anniversary Spring 2021 Balitaan
It’s the 60th anniversary of the Peace Corps! This issue (click link for the full PDF) celebrates the occasion by showing differences in Peace Corps service from an RPCV in the very first Peace Corps Philippines batch and the accounts