Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc.

Kaangayan, Kalambuan, Kalinaw ... sa Mindanaw, sa Pilipinas, sa Kalibutan

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Laying down the Foundation(s) of an NGO as Mindanaoan “Home”
(A short and still incomplete history of the beginnings of Balay Mindanaw Foundation, Inc.)
On May 8, 1996, Balay Mindanaw Foundation Inc. (BMFI) was incorporated with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and thus began to assume a legal personality. But the beginnings of BMFI, then and now more popularly known as Balay Mindanaw, began much earlier -- in the slow but sharp visioning of a few like-minded people, mostly development workers who believed together not only in the need to nourish Mindanao-based developmental work but also believed that developmental work at that time, in the last half of the 90s and at the end of the millennium, can still be improved in ways more effective and nurturing for beneficiaries and development workers alike. It began way back in 1994-95, as Charlito “Kaloy” Manlupig, its prime moving force and executive director, was toying with concepts and coining what later became its succinct vision-statement of enduring relevance: “Kaangayan, Kalambuan, Kalinaw… sa Mindanao, sa Pilipinas, sa Kalibutan! (Equality, Development, Peace … in Mindanao, the Philippines, the World!)