Community Engagement and Sustainable Activities (CESA)

CESA, formerly known as the Community Outreach Project (COP), reflects a broader and more comprehensive framework for community involvement. CESA expands the focus from merely providing services, donations, or short-term activities to one of sustained partnership built on collaboration, service, and shared responsibility with the adopted communities.

The CESA unit cultivates responsible citizenship and engages students, staff, and faculty members in selected community involvement activities that address identified needs, enhance the environment, and foster long-term development through capacity-building, volunteerism, environmental stewardship, and programs that benefit society by responding to needs that align with global sustainable development.

Programs

Current Initiatives & Projects

Empowering Minds and Building Respect, Acceptance, Confidence, and Equality (EMBRACE)

Students in today’s diverse academic environment often grapple with various personal, social, and academic challenges that can potentially affect their confidence…

The Literacy, Education, and Advancement Program (L.E.A.P.)

Several communities keep facing tough issues with functional illiteracy. They struggle with poor livelihood skills as well. And quality training programs are just not there for them. These kinds of limits make it really hard for people to get into…

Livelihood Initiative for Food and Enterprise (L.I.F.E.)

The Livelihood Initiative for Food and Enterprise, or L.I.F.E., is a community-based initiative specially designed to help individuals and families learn how to generate a sustainable livelihood. Some communities have limited opportunities for income, either through…

RISE: Read, Imagine, Save the Earth

In order to combat the declining interest in pleasure reading along with increasing amounts of screen time among children and the lack of early-age environmental education, we initiated this program…

Climate Watch Through Training and Service (CWTS)

The Philippines is being frequently hit by typhoons, earthquakes, flooding, and fire incidents; thus, there is an increasing need for a proactive and educated community responsive to…