STEPS MISSION INC, PHILIPPINES

Since 2006, we from STEPS Mission Inc. (formerly known as STEPS Familia Mission), have been working as Christian volunteers first in Manila and since 2011 in Panglao, Philippines. Our team is striving to help improve the quality of life for the poor and underprivileged by means of providing educational opportunities, livelihood training, spiritual value formation and teaching health awareness through organic gardening and seminars.

We collaborate with The Bellevue Resort Bohol, who provides us with a mission center where we daily teach children from the poorer sectors of society in preschool programs. Additionally, we provide reading programs for elementary students from a nearby public school. In our farm we are learning about and teaching organic farming and animal husbandry. We also create beautiful handicrafts in our livelihood programs.

Our vision is to give people a chance to lead better lives through education and training. You can help make that dream a reality through financial contributions or to work as a volunteer. Click here if you would like to know how to help.

Highlights

New Educational Reader Program in the Works

Since we are not able to open the school to any form of face-to-face teaching, we were starting to put some of the teaching material, especially the readers, into video format that can be downloaded and used on a cell phone (which most everybody uses), or on a computer. It is our goal to also reach the regional population with our readers on local TV. We are still working on the program, together with our teachers, and are recording words, phonic sounds, and synchronizing them with the matching syllables, words or sentences. We hope to be finished soon :)

Food for the Poor in Samar

Mid May we were able to give away more food packages to the poor and needy in Samar

Food packages for 500 families in Panglao and more in Samar

Some friends from abroad helped us to buy rice, as well as food packages for some very poor families in Samar.

End of March, as well as mid of April, we were able to give out 3500 kg rice for around 500 families in our neighborhood. We had lots of help with the packing and giving of rice bags for the needy! God bless all our Heavenly Helpers!

See here for more pictures and details...

Getting ready for the new school year

March and April were busy months for us! After the schools closed due to COVID-19, we started renovating and reorganizing our school rooms. Out of our big class room we made 2, and reorganized the other one into a STEPS school office. Look here....
At present we are printing school books & flash cards for the new school year and graduation certificates for this year's graduates!

Great Victory for STEPS!

Beginning this week, the Division Officer of the DepEd, as well as the supervisor, came for a visit to see our new STEPS Progressive program in the local elementary school. They want to help it get the program recognized by DepEd. Please click here for the full story

Tooth Brushing

Our volunteer John is teaching our STEPS kids how to brush their teeth properly! See here for more...

STEPS Samar

STEPS Panglao

Our STEPS children in Samar are making steady progress. Even their parents are learning... Check here for more...

Here you see our advanced group of STEPS preschoolers in Doljo, Panglao. Good job!

STEPS Progressive

Since beginning of January this year, we have been assisting the teachers in the nearby primary school. After first assessing the reading progress of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students, about 300 students all in all, we started teaching the 3 first-grade classes in Phonics. Please click here for more...

Christmas in Samar

Last Christmas we were able to give gifts for our 130 children and their families & teachers in Samar For the families these gifts were a great blessing, because the typhoon of mid December had flooded many households and therefore there was no money left for presents. Here you can find more pictures...

STEPS CHRISTMAS 2019

On December 10 we held our 9th Christmas party with our STEPS children. Check our Blog here for more....

STEPS Teachers Seminars in Samar

From August 16 to 19, Manny and Ellen went with volunteers Stefan and Sebastian to Samar, to teach around 40 new teachers and volunteers the how to of the STEPS preschool program. The attendees were very enthusiastic and eager to use the program in their schools. See here for more...

STEPS Parents Seminar in Cagayan de Oro

On Aug 12. 2019, Manny held a parents seminar for our 2019-2020 group of STEPS students in Brgy Carmen in Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao. This marks our 2rd year for STEPS in CDO! Please click here for more...

STEPS Mission featured on Business Matters, CNN Philippines

STEPS Mission was part of "Business Matters", CNN Philippines. The show featured "The Bellevue Resort Bohol", who we partner with, as part of a global initiative of sustainability and environmental consciousness, and in the course of the TV program, our STEPS preschool, as well as our Bio Garden and Livelihood program were featured. It starts at minute 23. Click here to watch, or watch it on our YouTube channel here. (Note: The part of STEPS Mission starts at 7:23)

Latest News in Pictures

Here are some of our latest Blog entries. (Click on the picture to get to the respective Blog entry)

Mission Project Overviews

This is our Mission Projects Overview from Sep. 2018 to May 2019

Bellevue Family Mission Project Overview 2018: Have a look at the highlights of our mission work this year!

Have a glimpse into our class room and see how we teach the children at our STEPS preschool program here at Bellevue Mission School

Bellevue Family Mission Activities 2012 - 2017

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Newsletters

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Welcome to ​STEPS Mission INC. Philippines!