Permaculture Action Asia is a non-profit NGO focused on permaculture. Permaculture is a design system aiming at creating sustainable human environments. The organization provides free permaculture education, permaculture consultancy and reforestation services using permaculture principles for clients around Asia and the Pacific.  Visit site

The Government plans to create a National Volunteer Service Corps that will provide assistance to poor Filipinos struggling from the impact of the global financial crisis. Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said President Arroyo has started to meet with various civic organizations, professional groups, and business chambers to solicit their volunteer work for the country.  Visit site

December is National Volunteer Month. Indeed, the contributions of many volunteers to uplift the condition of our disadvantaged sectors deserve recognition. These are the people who do not count the cost, are moved by a strong spirit and motivation to help improve society and who believe they can, in their own small ways, make the world a better place to live in.  Visit site

High anxiety may be gripping the corporate world these days, but for the managers, supervisors and employees of some of the Philippines’s leading companies, volunteer work knows no crisis. Thirty-two corporations sent a record number of participants on Saturday to Servathon 2008, a 3-year-old community service program.  Visit site

Bayanihan - the Filipino concept of community volunteerism - is transforming the social landscape of six Peace and Development Communities (PDCs) as community members lead construction of health stations in a bid to reduce preventable diseases in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Armm).   Visit site

The National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) is now accepting nominations for the Search for Outstanding Volunteers (SOV) 2008. Milagros Rimando, NEDA director and SOV Regional Search Committee chairman said the search is open to all individuals with Filipino citizenship and Filipino volunteer organizations or local chapter organizations of foreign organizations that currently provide volunteer assistance in the Philippines.  Visit site

World Endeavors is a provider of unique international volunteer, internship, and study programs. Our mission is to become a catalyst for positive change in our community and the world through quality international programs.  Visit site

Cosmic Volunteers is a US-based non-profit organization that offers volunteer and internsip programs abroad in China, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Kenya, Peru, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Our volunteers are placed at schools, hospitals, newspapers, orphanages, HIV/AIDS clinics, women's groups, and other organizations who ask us for assistance. Our volunteers are mostly from the US, Canada, and Europe, from all walks of life, and range in age from high school to retirees.  Visit site

iVolunteer.ph is the Philippines' first portal on Volunteerism.  It seeks to promote volunteerism for social development by harnessing the power and reach of the Internet. The portal provides web-based facilities for non-profit organizations to post volunteer opportunities in a searcheable database for free.  Visit site

This Philippine-based non-profit organization places foreign volunteers in community projects and raise funds for numerous educational and poverty projects. Currently, the organization is working with the City Social Welfare Office n constructing a house for street children.   Visit site