BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE ORGANIZATION

In the  early 1990s, two Divine Word Missionaries, Fr. Heinz Kulueke and Fr. Maximo Abalos, started to journey with the poor and marginalized sectors of Cebu city. They got involved in the concrete life situations of the fisher folks, urban poor, informal city settlers, prostituted women and children, and the scavengers of the four dumpsites of Metro Cebu.

Being members of the administration team of the University of San Carlos (USC), in Cebu city, both Frs. Kulueke and Abalos brought the activities of the Community Extension Services (CES) of the university from the occasional charitable activities into programmed, sustainable and liberative approach to development. Thus, students, faculty and staff volunteers of the university began to be involved in organizing the fisher folks and dumpsite dwellers and in teaching the preschool children.

Karl Kuebel Stiftung of Germany opened its consultancy office through the CES of the University of San Carlos in 1997. The activities and the projects which the CES office have conceptualized and implemented have since then been supported partly by KKS.  In 1999, Fr. Heinz Kulueke, Fr. Maximo Abalos and Ms. Rhoy Dizon, together with the a group of the like minded people organized Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation - Integrated Development Center (JPIC-IDC) as a Non Government Organization (NGO), separate from the CES office of the University of San Carlos. In June 2001, JPIC-IDC was officially registered with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under Philippine laws.  The organization is governed by 7 board members elected regularly by the JPIC General assembly.

 

JPIC-IDC Administrative and Project  Staff (as of September 2009)

Cebu Based:

Fr. Anthony Salas, svd                         Executive Director

Fr. Eugenio Docoy, svd                        Associate Director / Human Resource officer

Mrs. Maria Rosalyn Durante, cpa         Finance Officer

Mrs. Marciana Gonzaga                      Project Coordinator- KKS Bantayan Phase 2 Project

Mrs. Raquel Daria                               Project Coordinator- KKS After Care Project

Mrs. Estela Vasquez                           Project Coordinator - KKS Bangkal Phase 3 Project

Mrs. Carmelita Egot                            Project Coordinator - Street Children Project / Education Program

Ms. Aidy Estrada                                KKS Coodinating Desk Officer  

Agusan Based

Fr. Marcelo Cattaneo, svd                Agusan Area Director

Ms. Hazel Ocdenaria                        Project Coordinator - KKS Agusan Health Project

Mrs. Theresa Salindato                    Team Leader - KKS Early Chidhood Education Project