Helping OUrselves  through

Sustainable Enterprises

updated on March 5, 2010

 

Helping Ourselves

 

Developing ourselves is just as important for us as running our businesses properly.  And so we always make sure to take time out during the week to do what we can to grow.

THANKS TO PULSE YOGA, we continue our yoga practice every other Tuesday.  With our bodies stressed from physical work, and our minds tied down by our past traumas, yoga has become one of our tools to keep fit, and to heal.

 

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MESSY BESSY CLEANERS, INC.

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MISIS LINIS

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DAISY’S DAYDREAM

ice cream made from free-grazing cow’s milk. free-range chicken’s eggs and natural local ingredients.

Yoga to Heal

In our HOuSE, we continue to develop ourselves through the businesses we create, and through the programs that our businesses sustain.

With the resources we’ve gathered through our sales in Messy Bessy, we’ve jumpstarted several programs that will help us become better people, and create a brighter future.

February 1:

Our first day of SCHOOL

February marked the first day of School H.OU.S.E., our in-house classroom that will help us all acquire the high school diploma we all yearn to have.


Every day, half of the Messy Bessy team undergo rigorous DECS-certified lessons that are based on each individual’s current school level abilities.

If you wish to help us, please contact us through 0917 830 3003 or through messybessycleaners@gmail.com.

All help is welcome -- from supplies to to funds to volunteer work.

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SPECIAL THANKS

to our HOuSEmates:

  1. Bullet  NOEY LOPEZ

  2. Bullet  TROY BERNARDO

  3. Bullet  CANDY REYES

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...and our friends:


  1. Bullet  TANA LOPA

  2. Bullet  PULSE YOGA, TESA CELDRAN & JOELLE GOUDSMIT

  3. Bullet  ANA LOPEZ

  4. Bullet  RUSTAN COFFEE CORP.

  5. Bullet  MARIEL SAN AGUSTIN

  6. Bullet  RICA DE JESUS

  7. Bullet  CES UHING

  8. Bullet  WANGGO GALLAGA

  9. Bullet  JAIME PINEDA

  10. Bullet  YOGA WHOLISTICS

  11. Bullet  KIDDIEPARTY.PH

  12. Bullet  CANDY CORNER

A New Way to Heal:  Art Therapy

In this photo are scultpures from our first art therapy session held last July 16th.  Art therapy has been found to be a transformative and effective way to heal our wounds and past traumas.

Safety First

Last July 21st, Wanggo Gallaga was kind enough to share his time to share his story and teach us about the value of waiting, and of safe sex.

Since then, we offer free contraceptives to those who choose to use them.

A special shout out to friend Jaime Pineda who occasionally donates condoms to our stash!

Mondays are special days, where we take a break from ordinary school work and go into work-based modules, that focus more on values formation and specialized skills.

Our goal this year is to have at least 2 from our team acquire a high school diploma. 

Wish us luck!

Our Wish has been GRANTed

Last month, we’ve received a 1-year grant from the Asia Foundation, Give2Asia and the Starbucks Social Entrepreneur Fund to set-up our in-house Alternative School called School H.OU.S.E.

On our agenda are the following:

  1. -hiring a full-time alternative learning teacher (done!)

  2. -jumpstarting our DAILY diploma schooling

  3. -setting up our in-house classroom

  4. -designing and implementing our work-based learning modules

The school will be very helpful to our end goal of securing “real” jobs in the future, since most of us are undergraduates of elementary and high school. And for sustainability’s sake, we’re adapting Delancey Street Foundation’s “each one, teach one” learning program (www.delanceystreetfoundation.org), where we will teach each other what we can, not solely relying on teachers. 

Since then, we’ve identified 2 members of our staff to avail of extensive Art Therapy weekly sessions, as a way for them to overcome their personal tragedies.


Although we are all above 18 years of age, our levels range from pre-school and basic elementary all the way advanced high school and pre-college. 

HOuSE was established in 2007 as a group of social enterprises that will educate, develop and sustain programs for formerly abused, trafficked and/or incarcerated young adults.

Last February, our friends at YOGA WHOLISTICS came to teach us basic stress management and mediation.