The Institutional Social Action Center (ISAC) is the institution’s response to its twin call to Education as a Social Responsibility. Through its social awareness and involvement program, one of the important tasks of the office is to implement St. Scholastica’s goal to expose the students to the needs of the less privileged and his/her responsibility to participate in enabling the needy to mobilize their inner strength so that through concerted effort, both the rich and the poor may effect a positive change in the society.
Overview
Vision
An entire academic community whose members in diverse forms work as one, reaching out in mutual support to other communities to live out their faith. Bringing about the Reign of God in the tasks of nation building, actively engaged in raising social consciousness and serving the poorest of our brothers and sisters to raise the quality of their life and personhood.
Mission
In order to attain this vision, SAC commits itself to:
1. Building communities that recognize God at work in people’s lives by the quality of relationships they foster.
2. Steering the academic community’s movement from critical awareness of current social realities towards a raised consciousness that consistently insists on moral integrity and social justice; engages in gender-fair education and transformative action; defends the ecosystem and promotes the health of the home planet.
3. Promoting the Benedictine cultural and spiritual heritage as hallmark expression of the Gospel values to reinforce the best of our Filipino values.
4. An on-going formation program designed to raise constantly our competencies and qualitative traits as agents of social change.
Contact Us
INSTITUTIONAL SOCIAL ACTION CENTER
St. Scholastica’s College
2560 Leon Guinto Street
Malate, Metro Manila
Philippines / P.O. Box 3153
Phone: (632) 8567 – 7686 locals 8223 to 8224
The Outreach Program
The Outreach Program aims to uplift the quality of life of the members of its partner communities. Different programs/ activities like values formation, livelihood, ecology and environment, health and education are extended to the partner communities.
Relief/Tawid-Gutom Bags
Among the services offered by SAC are relief and tawid-gutom bags. Relief services are coordinated with institutions and NGO’s (Non – Government Organizations) like Citizen’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC), Socio Pastoral Apostolate (SPA), Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), People’s Organizations (POs). On the other hand, tawid-gutom bags are given to individuals who knock at the door of SSC or what is called walk–in poor.
Extension Communities
ISAC ventures into partnership with Non-government Organizations (NGOs), People’s Organizations (POs), Church-based and parish-based organizations and apostolates. They serve as extension communities for the services or the different units – Grade school, High School and College. Exposure/Immersion, skills training (health, women orientation, ecology, leadership, theater arts, etc), tutorials, spiritual formations e.g catechism and values formation, organizing such as consultancy services to people’s organizations and medical missions are among the services offered by the outreach program.
ISAC Events
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Event: Institutional Tree Planting |
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Event: Art as an Expression of Protest in Times of Repression during Martial Law Joey Ayala and Egai Fernandez discuss Art as a Form of Expression in Times of Repression |
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Event: National Day of Mourning SSC Joins the National Day of Mourning for the spate of Killings in Negros |
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Event: Mass and Candle Lighting in Protest of the Persecution of Religious SSC takes part in denouncing the persecution of religious people and organizations |
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Event: Graduation of Lumad Bakwit Schools |
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Event: Visit of the EDUCAREM (British Heads of Schools) |
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Event: Tawid Gutom Distribution Tawid Gutom Program Revived through Distribution of Dinner Packs to Street People |
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Event: One Billion Rising Dance |
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Event: 2nd Symposium for Schools to Adopt the Zero Waste Lifestyle (ATZWL) SSC Attends Conference on Adopting a Zero Waste Management Lifestyle in Schools |
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Event: One Faith, One Nation, One Voice: A Gathering for Truth, Justice, and Peace One Faith, One Nation, One Voice: A Gathering for Truth, Justice, and Peace |
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Event: Campaign Against VAW |
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Event: Institutional Tree Planting |
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Event: Outreach Trip – Modules on Financial Management and Financial Literacy and Wellness SSC Conducts Training on Financial Management, Literacy, and Wellness in Sambayanan ni San Benito |
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Event: Renewal of MOA between SSC and ALCADEV |
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Event: Lumad Bakwit School |
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Event: Culmination of the Season of Creation — Earth day |
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Event: Never Again Martial Law Rally |
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Event: Talk on the Role of the Socio-Pastoral Apostolate and Benedictine Outreach with Sr. Theodora Bilocura, OSB Talk on the Socio-Pastoral Apostolate of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters |
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Event: Walk for Creation |
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Event: Relief Distribution for Flood victims of Habagat SSC Distributed Relief Bags to Habagat Flood Victims in Marikina and Tanay |
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Events: Tacloban Outreach Exploratory Trip |
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Events: Tulong Mayon Relief Operation SSC provides relief bags to evacuees of Mayon Volcano eruption |
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Events: 2018 One Billion Rising Dance SSC Community Commits to End VAW with the One Billion Rising Dance |
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Events: 3rd Anniversary of the PALCC |
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Event: “Walk for Creation” |
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Events: Manilakbayan Salubong 2017 |
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Event: Yakap Eskwela 2 Trainings Yakap Eskwela 2 renews its MOA and conducts trainings for students and faculty in Loon, Bohol |
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Events: MOA signing with the Diocese of Tagbilaran on YAKAP ESKWELA II |
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Events: Marihatag Exposure and Outreach Trip |
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Events: Devastation of Super Storm “Yolanda” SSC-Manila responds to the relief needs of victims of typhoon “Yolanda” in Leyte |
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