https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-03 https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog-1/hope-crisis-an-ems-experience monthly 0.5 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1617434256525-GPZI5N3IHKBEIRGXJVTT/pTIIKmkhRr67B2ujMAeqmQ_thumb_106b5.jpg Blog - HOPE CRISIS: An EMS Experience Left to right: Dr. Becky (blue pants), Nurse Joy (black pants), EMT Joseph, EMT Edwin (at head of stretcher) https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog-1/jems-first-blog monthly 0.5 2020-08-18 https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog daily 0.75 2020-08-12 https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog/blog-post-four-8gwx7 monthly 0.5 2019-08-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdb0b54755be25d5d92bfb3/1565794519920-7ZV3FNWJON04K3BSJK6A/download.jpeg Blog - Blog Post Four https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog/blog-post-three-lfezn monthly 0.5 2019-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdb0b54755be25d5d92bfb3/1565794488032-9XBL84FW5EFN7IJBCXN9/download+%281%29.jpeg Blog - Blog Post Three https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog/blog-post-two-ztwy2 monthly 0.5 2019-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdb0b54755be25d5d92bfb3/1565794203166-HK9O5SMXBCPW1RHBM3V5/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Blog Post Two https://www.iservicecorps.org/blog/blog-post-one-wbbab monthly 0.5 2019-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdb0b54755be25d5d92bfb3/1565794043606-FK1PV2DOU30VI46WWL09/justice-rising-ECHO-AND-EARL-3.jpg Blog - Blog Post One https://www.iservicecorps.org/home daily 1.0 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1596609164608-FSNQZE7QZDHD4PDWJRUZ/201508_CatCar-1064.jpg Home - Project Focus Areas Our volunteers have a heart to serve by passing on their gifts and talents to those who are seeking to develop themselves for a brighter future. We exist to support existing local initiatives, not replace them. Therefore, we provide supplemental education, community healthcare, and humanitarian assistance, shoulder-to-shoulder with leaders already working in public service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1596610838014-T8Q3W2AWPA2Q3UJKD315/%C2%A9SeanAmbrose_Phillipines_2016+%2889+of+723%29.jpg Home - Mobilizing Communities to Serve Serving one another in love - it’s at the heart of what we do. We value capacity building and desire to see those enduring the most challenging of situations to thrive, fulfilling their dignified purpose in life. We hope our efforts show that we are extending a “hand up, rather than a hand out.” Though our services come at zero monetary cost to participants, we ask just one thing. That whoever receives any benefits from the ISC’s efforts would in turn, pass it on to others. This is done by volunteering with our teams to conduct street clean-ups, feeding programs, reading with children, helping distribute food supplements, and many more exciting opportunities to give back to your community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1596611044271-6W058XWGCET4MVKO53J1/IMG_8585.jpg Home - Special Projects As a community development organization, we conduct projects with long-term and sustainable solutions in mind. Building playgrounds is an innovative way to support neighborhoods and schools, as pictured here in this crowded mega-city (the playground wasn’t even complete when these out-of-school youth inundated the work site!). But sometimes we have to engage in humanitarian aid after a major calamity like a typhoon, earthquake, or pandemic. In that case, the ISC is grateful to help in relief operations, food distribution, house building, and rescue efforts. https://www.iservicecorps.org/hope daily 0.75 2025-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679618367-9VHS0ZFZP6VBJR06XF31/IMG_0788.jpg ABOUT HOPE Holistic Approach - We understand that a person cannot be separated into different sectors. A person is a multi-faceted creation and we understand that addressing each layer of someone's humanity is important for someone to thrive. Mind, body, soul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597680038053-INW5S5XQ65P9YFELFTL1/IMG_1990.jpg ABOUT HOPE SSAR Projects - S = Simple S=Sustainable A = Appropriate R = Reproducible This is the rubric we use to help us decide whether or not to start or continue a project. We aren't perfect at following these guidelines, but it helps us stay on track. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679106333-C0Y26V2E4KUNREN77OZW/IMG_2711.jpg ABOUT HOPE Community: Individuals can only thrive in the context of community. Therefore, we do our best to address how one person can impact a community or how one person is influenced by their community. Recognizing that we have a shared life with those around us is the most powerful way to see positive transformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679434229-5XJGHECR36P5VOA53FAX/IMG_5886.JPG ABOUT HOPE Partnerships - We have no aspirations to become a large organization just so that we can boast about our accomplishments. We do not wish to replace or compete with other NGOs. If anything, we hope for more and more non-profits to spring up. Why? Because we ultimately care about the people and there is no way one organization can solve all the problems of the world. We need help. Therefore, it is important for us to partner with specialized entities who are experts in their own fields. It's about the person in need, not the organization doing the helping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679049711-800CKR4E61YPGNDDOZLU/IMG_1487.jpg ABOUT HOPE Hope and Love: This may seem too broad of a concept for many, but it is a guiding principle for our organization. We can do a great many projects and accomplish the greatest feats throughout our history as a non-profit, but if we are not exhibiting love, then we are nothing more than a group of people just trying to stay busy. We will discontinue a project or refuse to start an activity if our volunteers or recipients are not covered in love. And it is this love that brings hope. Hope is transformational. Therefore without hope and love, we become something entirely different - a company that delivers goods - and not a group of "change-makers" with a desire to empower people for community transformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679878356-TCU0KUNHCJ31QKJVYT7S/IMG_3301.jpg ABOUT HOPE Service: It's in our name. The heart of what we do comes down to true servanthood. We consider others more highly than ourselves and we devote time, resources, and energy to serve sacrificially. Why? It's just what we do. If you take this core value out of our system, then we are no longer the International Service Corps of Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597679690233-24L6HSEDPL21LO6N5ZOD/IMG_4267.jpg ABOUT HOPE God Centered - Our organization is not religiously affiliated. We do not discriminate or push beliefs onto the volunteers and recipients of the Service Corps. But we believe that we exist because of God. Without God's transformative love, the founding members would not have given tremendous effort in finding ways to serve people. It is God's loving kindness, the compels us to serve unconditionally and sacrificially. Therefore you will see that many of our members exhibit a faith that can bring hope in even the bleakest of situations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597680507950-VLMFBWVJ686D2ZP9D39Q/IMG_8072.jpg ABOUT HOPE Generosity - This is the driving mechanism of all of our projects. Whether sacrificing your time or you finances, it takes generosity to make a difference. This virtue, coupled with wisdom, is what brings community impact. It is important to “teach a man to fish,” which is why our central focus is education. But showing love often means that we do what Jesus did and feed the masses with loaves and fishes. If generosity is not a trait you possess, we invite you to join us in learning how to become a person that gives. And if not, the ISC is unfortunately not a suitable match for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597681238652-3RKFQTJCIIN7O31QKEJI/IMG_2717.jpg ABOUT HOPE Innovation - This is the value that makes us the ISC. We push people to think outside of the box, to go against the grain, to explore beyond the boundaries of tradition and convention. It is our desire to help "change-makers" discover that they can do anything to make an impact on the world, even it's a seemingly impossible idea, too risky a venture, or even a dangerous and costly endeavor. In this picture you see volunteers with the head of the National Commission of Muslim Filipinos and the Director of Women and Children's Affairs at Manila Golden Mosque. Together they built a playground in the heart of Manila, one of the busiest and most densely populated places on earth. Innovate, innovate, innovate! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1610329596051-54H2W2MXPUO4TS9B92NX/IMG_4738.jpg ABOUT HOPE - Delivering Hope and Love You don’t have to be a teacher to be an educator. You simply have to be a person who wishes to pass down knowledge and wisdom to others so that they may have the tools to build a life worthy of living. A life of HOPE. A life of LOVE. Similarly, you don’t have to be a doctor or nurse to be involved in someone’s physical well-being. Community healthcare workers may not even hold a high school diploma but are simply willing to learn about what it takes to prevent disease, promote good hygiene, and to properly respond to medical crises. All that to bring HOPE and LOVE. Regarding community service - anyone can make a difference! From children living in a slum, to fishermen on a rural island, we believe that people from all walks of life can lend a hand to do something meaningful. The bottom line - when you LOVE your neighbors as yourself and show it through a simple act of service, you can change the world by bringing HOPE. And this is what we do at the ISC. We start grassroots movements with the most unlikeliest of people who have the power to make changes as significant as any state leader in the world. Our teams model that by first becoming an example of genuine, unconditional, servanthood. HOPE and LOVE. https://www.iservicecorps.org/community-mobilization daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://www.iservicecorps.org/community-development daily 0.75 2020-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132705916-W7ZNZX4GF7VRK1OHA9JP/IMG_1169.jpg Community Development Mobile computer course for teachers at a rural allocation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132836539-HV357R4MV3G7KQE73PVM/IMG_0736.jpg Community Development Rescue and salvage course for government disaster response team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132871711-APIPGRW8E6AFZXMEI5L6/boat.png Community Development Underwater clean up and coral reef restoration program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132901152-W7QY9WOIDJWNGSSK0QQG/201508_CatCar-0521.jpg Community Development Trekking to a remote village to deliver supplies and to bring educational materials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132942911-311E0OOCLM0X6DGMGCLV/IMG_8994.jpg Community Development High school diploma course for inmates at a jail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597132961034-2HUTK0SCFRRJ3A81ZKPM/IMG_8974.jpg Community Development Supplemental education courses in support of elementary school teachers. Reading stories and bringing snacks to students and giving full time educators a break. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1597133004869-CLFEDSIWOPLW5W39VC5W/%C2%A9SeanAmbrose_Phillipines_video-24.jpg Community Development Teaching local residents about aquaponics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1596781195658-439Z1BB8H76Q3HR51RZW/IMG_1358.jpg Community Development - Education… Innovative ways to deliver supplemental education that supports existing, local initiatives is at the bedrock of what we do. We work with community leaders to explore our role in supporting education that can lead to a fulfilling and bright future. From computer literacy programs, English classes, livelihood training, agricultural demonstrations, and even enhancing teaching methodologies for educators already working at an institution, we are only limited to what our long and short-term volunteers can offer. We’ve even entered into a new realm, facilitating online subjects for rural communities that cannot easily access information from where they are. And for places without online access at all, we work out a way to install “internet-in-a-box” educational units to those that need it most. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2a475c32c87d59344a182f/1596780172162-Q83AFSHHVPEBL7BA7N2E/IMG_5572.jpg Community Development - Community Healthcare An undeniably critical aspect of holistic development is healthcare. Though we are not a hospital or medical mission employing a plethora of healthcare professionals, we spend a large portion of our time and energy addressing this need with the help of partners. Our headquarters houses a small, outpatient children’s clinic (The Hope Kids Clinic) led by pediatrician Dr. Becky Llamado and her staff of community health workers. Volunteers serve as patient advocates, bridging existing resources to the poorest of the poor and activating already built systems. Workers also teach community basic life support, hygiene, nutrition, and other stand-alone topics such as hypertension management. An important part of healthcare is nutrition, so we cook and distribute healthy meals to those suffering from malnourishment. As often as we can, distributing vitamins and supplements is necessary. 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