The Story of ISSE

ISSE Philippines was inaugurated on 14 December 2000. In the first five years, ISSE organized several SSEHV training activities led by Dr Art-Ong Jumsai and Dr Victor Kanu. Dr Pal Dhall, and Dr William Miller have also contributed by sharing with teachers and business people on Human values based leadership approach.  

A few contributions are –

• • 1997 PSEP convention, Baguio - Sathya Sai Organization, Philippines was invited to the annual convention of the Department of Education on values. It was chaired by the former Philippine Secretary of Education Dr Lourdes Quisimbing, who championed introduction of values in the Philippine Education curriculum.

  • Jan 2002 - ISSE Philippines hosted a three day First International Convention on “Sathya Sai Educare – Integrating Values in Society” to reach out the message of Sathya Sai Educare to all strata of society. It was attended by 1200 attended by 1,200 participants consisting of 30 diplomats and senior government officials, 200 youth; 900 teachers and educators, 100 business and medical professionals.

  • March 2003, the DepEd led by U SEC Fe Hidalgo (programs and planning) and U SEC Mike Luz, assisted by team of National Educators Academy of the Philippines, organized a seminar that was attended by more than 250 supervisors and heads of public schools covering all the regions of the entire country, as well as key persons from several private universities and schools, and those responsible for other program funded by UNESCO, UNDP, JICA, and FAO. ISSE SanPedro alongwith Mr and Mrs Kanu of TAISSE were invited as special guests to make presentations on integrating values in the lesson plans covering all subjects taught at the primary and secondary level.

  • Dec 2003 –ADB UNHABITAT water education – ISSE, Philippines organized and facilitated an ADB-UNHABITAT multilateral Regional consultation on Value-based Water Education for the Asian Countries. The Regional Consultations which were jointly organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) as part of the water education component of the Water for Asian Cities programme, were hosted by the Department of Education, Government of the Philippines. Participants were from 20 countries of the Asia Pacific region, including ten member countries of SEAMEO.

  • Brigada Eskwella program – The former undersecretary of the department of education learnt about the program at Sathya Sai School to promote the transformation of parents through children. The parents participated voluntarily with their time and skills in gardening, carpentry and other activities at the school. They were not expected to make any financial or other in-kind contribution. The undersecretary  formulated a government initiative called School Brigade (in Tagalog Brigada Eskwella) that involved parents to participate in the school repair during summer holidays-- primarily contributing their time and skills. He reported that the initiative saved close to a $10m in the department’s annual budget for school repairs and also fostered better participation of parents in school activities.

We invite teachers who have participated in the training programs of the Institute of Sathya Sai Education Philippines to fill this alumni information form.