Our History

In the beginning, “Working Hands”, launched in December 1995, was a scholarship program conceptualized and spearheaded by the Young Upbeat Professionals for Peace (YUPPEACE), a people’s organization founded in 1994 for the 10th World Youth Day in the Philippines. In November 1996, it was spun off as Working Hands Scholarship Foundation, Inc., a non-stock, not-for-profit organization registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The end in mind, when Working Hands was created, was the vision of a manpower base of educated and well-trained young workers who, by way of being productive, responsibly contribute to economic nation-building. The organization believes that it is not enough just to send the out-of-school youth to school. Fortressed by values like social responsibility and psycho-spiritual growth, the trained youth must be able to work and earn after being graduated from the training centers.

Our Vision and Mission

We envision a community of volunteers forming a manpower
base of educated and well-trained young workers responsibly
contributing to nation-building in a Christ-like way.

We commit ourselves to:

• Provide education & technical skills training that will equip the out-ofschool
  youth, from financially-challenged families, to be academically &
  technologically qualified to become productive citizens of a society;
• Provide spiritual & value formation to the youth in order to enable
  them to become living examples of Christ in the community they live;
• Organize our graduates into a young workers’ association conscious of
  their roles as social catalysts along the lines of the spirituality &
  commitment towards the Christian animation of the work force and
  our volunteers as well; and,
• In order to sustain the scholarship program, continuously raise &
  maintain financial & logistic resources.