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Website. www.nyc.gov.ph. The National Youth Commission (Filipino: Pambansang Komisyon sa Kabataan), also known as the NYC, is a government agency in the Philippines that specifically addresses issues surrounding the Filipino youth. It was founded on June 30, 1995, via Republic Act 8044 or the "Youth in Nation-Building Act of 1995".
In December 2000, the National Youth Council celebrated its 25th Founding Anniversary. On August 12, 2003, the United Nations in the Philippines recognized the Red Cross Youth as one of the Five Outstanding Youth Organizations Awardee. October 2003 saw the launch of the first batch of the Ten Outstanding Red Cross Youth (TORCY) and by October ...
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. [1] Youth empowerment aims to improve quality ...
Literacy Training Service. The Literacy Training Service (LTS) is one of three components of the National Service Training Program, a civic education and defense preparedness program for higher and vocational education students in the Philippines. The LTS is "a program designed to train students to become teachers of literacy and numeracy ...
The IBON Foundation is a non-profit research, education and information-development institution with programs in research, education and advocacy based in the Philippines. It provides socioeconomic research and analysis on people's issues to various sectors (primarily grassroots organizations). It aims to contribute to people's empowerment ...
A Sangguniang Kabataan (abbreviated as SK; lit. 'youth council') is a community council that represents youth in a barangay in the Philippines. They were put "on hold", but not abolished, prior to the 2013 barangay elections. [1] In January 2016, the Sangguniang Kabataan Reform Act was signed into law, which made changes to the SK and initially ...
The foundation formulates as its goal to "provide educational assistance to financially needy but deserving Filipino youth, especially members of the indigenous groups, center-based street children, and dependents of employees of the YGC companies". It has several social development programs that focus mainly on education, health and nutrition.
The Alternative Learning System (ALS) is a parallel learning system in the Philippines that provides a practical option to the existing formal instruction. When one does not have or cannot access formal education in schools, ALS is an alternate or substitute. The system only requires learners to attend learning sessions based on the agreed ...