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Last April 25, Route Sans Frontierre (RSF), a French non-government organization and one of the major sponsors of the Senden Home Foundation (SHF), visited Asian Social Institute President, Dr. Mina Ramirez, through RSF volunteers Cathe-Rine Cardoso and her sister Anne Christine, and Agathe Renet, as part their one month exposure visit to the foundation in Binangonan, Rizal.

Accompanied by SHF Social Worker Ms. Rosana Sison, and several Senden Home youth beneficiaries, it was an opportunity for them to meet Dr. Ramirez, who took upon herself to continue the advocacy of Fr. Francis Senden, CICM, the late ASI Founder, in helping the street children whom he often encountered in Leon Guinto streets, and who, in his final moments, had left some money with a note to Dr. Mina to buy for their ‘pandesal’ or local bread.

Twenty-one post Graduate Students of ASI’s Applied Cosmic Anthropology Program who are in their dissertation-writing were happy to end the first part of an innovative seminar-workshop.  Included among the participants was a professor of Adamson University.  At the end of the two-day process, each participant was assisted in formulating the general research problem with the specific research questions.  Their assignment is to work on the three chapters of the dissertation to be presented and critiqued in the second part of the seminar-workshop on May 31 to June 1, 2013.

The Asian Social Institute will be conducting Social Work board exam review classes from May 17 - June 5, 2013. Registration is now open and discounts await those who sign up early. To know the details, read more below: