PEF Condolidated Report for 2001 - 2004
The Consolidated Report of the Peace and Equity Foundation, spanning the years 2001 to 2004, is now available for download in the Downloads section. The report, which is packaged for public reading, covers activities from PEF's conception to the end of 2004. It also details PEF's operational strategies and goals as well as includes a number of interesting case studies based on actual experiences drawn from the Foundation's various interventions in development.
The message from the PEF Board Chairperson is as follows:
NGO documents are replete with references to sustainability. Sustainability as an ideal sought after, while reasonably well-defined, is not always achieved.
The Peace Equity Access for Community Empowerment Foundation, Inc. (PEF), is itself a joint undertaking to be a selfsustaining NGO in terms of its financial resources. In turn, its own programs and projects seek to transform sustainability from a mere byword into a goal, into a process and into a reality. At a time when the resources of many NGOs are under threat of drying up, PEF has stood up to the task of providing alternative ways of harnessing resources to enable the work of development to move on for many years to come.
Three years have passed since we began the task of setting up the endowment. Over these years, we have provided financial resources to barangays, people's organizations, cooperatives, faith-based groups, and many other types of organizations. All of them have been engaged in the process of developing their communities at various levels and in different arenas.
I am proud to say that in this short period of time, the PEF has gone beyond the task of simply articulating its vision of sustainability. In many of these communities, sustainability has been achieved. Today, through innovative efforts, PEF seeks to undertake much more for these communities and their respective efforts at development.
It has been a true privilege and genuine honor for me to be a part of the Foundation's effort.
Thank you very much and more power to you!
Most sincerely,
Fr. Noel D. Vasquez, S.J.
