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About FOFI

Vision

FOFI aims to provide deserving under-privileged children in the Philippines a brighter future by providing them with opportunities to finish their education.

Mission

  1. To receive and accept donations, grants, endowments, legacies and instruments, furniture, equipment, devices and similar gifts commensurate with existing applicable statutes and requirements of the association.
  2. To help organize and build a boarding school for children of overseas Filipino workers worldwide.
  3. To provide assistance to existing deserving Philippine schools in their specific needs for enhancing and improving their curriculum and facilities for children of overseas workers.
  4. To undertake enhancement activities to revive and restore the dignity and pride of Filipinos and to instill in the young the importance of honesty, dignity in hardwork, civic mindedness as in environmental care and protection and perseverance.
  5. To initiate programs for returning Filipinos that will eventually bring and settle back our valued labor in our country.

History

Origins: Establishing Friends of Overseas Filipinos

FOFI was established in December 2001 to address issues arising from the separation of families due to economic migration, poverty and other social issues. It is geared to provide a web of support to disadvantaged/disenfranchised children by providing psychological guidance to help them deal with the separation from parents, and secondly, to provide an educational environment that will encourage achievement and promote responsible citizenship.

The desire to uplift the plight of disadvantaged but deserving children by securing their social and moral welfare and development had been voiced several years prior to the launch of the Friends of Filipinos Incorporated. The Foundation has clearly set itself to be a vehicle for the welfare of children, ultimately acting as catalyst, messenger, coordinator and facilitator in matching scholarships between students and schools.

FOFI Logo

Migrant workers who brought stability to the country in times of crises are perched atop the Globe hoisting the Filipino flag. It is the creation of Outstanding Filipino Architect, Fel Macalino, an avid supporter of FOFI and one of the Filipino pioneers in Singapore.

Incorporation

FOFI was registered as a non-stock non-profit foundation in the Philippines as noted below:

SEC COMPANY REGISTRATION # A200205296

Account Name:
   FRIENDS OF OVERSEAS FILIPINOS, INC.
Peso Savings Account:
   #071-3071-51384-0
Name of Bank :
   Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co.
Bank Address
 

Greenhills Center Branch
  Ortigas Avenue corner Wilson Street
  Greenhills, San Juan, Metro Manila
  The Philippines
Bank Tel. No. :
  +63 2 7214407

Click here to access a copy of FOFI’s Certificate of Incorporation.