About
The Before & Afterschool program is part of a YMCA that offers a range of education, training, and youth development programs. Activities connected to this YMCA include Alternative Learning Systems in collaboration with the Department of Education, livelihood, technical and skills trainings, a Children’s Education & Development Program under the Adopt-A-School Program of the Department of Education, the YMCA Samurai-Karate Club, a YMCA Summer Program with Learn to Swim and a Basketball Clinic, and the BATANG-Y Internship Volunteer Program for local youth, especially out-of-school youth.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
This YMCA was established in 1947 and is about a 3-hour drive from Manila city. It was dormant for almost 20 years before being revived in 2008 with support from World Service Y-USA. For fifteen years, Albay YMCA has carried out livelihood, employment, and entrepreneurship programs for vulnerable populations, including young people, with initial interventions focused on market-based alternative livelihood skills training and organizing community groups that developed into social enterprises. As the organization progressed, it partnered with schools and other community sectors to offer a Financial Literacy Program on money management skills and financial goal setting, and it institutionalized in-school programs such as career guidance, competency building, apprenticeship and mentoring, career fairs, and pre-employment support. Life skills were integrated in these programs, and for participants who chose to start their own business, Albay YMCA provided entrepreneurship development trainings, product enhancement, skills upgrading, seed capitalization, marketing, and assistance in establishing micro and social enterprises. In a coalition, YMCAs in the United States partner with Y-USA to strengthen international YMCAs, with Y-USA facilitating dialogue and coordinating financial and technical assistance while local US YMCAs share leadership and coalitions provide space for Y-to-Y partnership priorities and national issues.
Last updated February 16, 2026.
• Ages: 5–12 years old
This YMCA was established in 1947 and is about a 3-hour drive from Manila city. It was dormant for almost 20 years before being revived in 2008 with support from World Service Y-USA. For fifteen years, Albay YMCA has carried out livelihood, employment, and entrepreneurship programs for vulnerable populations, including young people, with initial interventions focused on market-based alternative livelihood skills training and organizing community groups that developed into social enterprises. As the organization progressed, it partnered with schools and other community sectors to offer a Financial Literacy Program on money management skills and financial goal setting, and it institutionalized in-school programs such as career guidance, competency building, apprenticeship and mentoring, career fairs, and pre-employment support. Life skills were integrated in these programs, and for participants who chose to start their own business, Albay YMCA provided entrepreneurship development trainings, product enhancement, skills upgrading, seed capitalization, marketing, and assistance in establishing micro and social enterprises. In a coalition, YMCAs in the United States partner with Y-USA to strengthen international YMCAs, with Y-USA facilitating dialogue and coordinating financial and technical assistance while local US YMCAs share leadership and coalitions provide space for Y-to-Y partnership priorities and national issues.
Last updated February 16, 2026.
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