and helped make a difference in their life. Rightly so, just like a
persevering farmer, they have harvested the fruits of their labor!
They deserve to be recognized as Role Models (i.e., Herminio
Mercado, MD) for the youths and should be a source of
inspiration and a beacon of hope in their own struggles in life as
they search for a better alternative of what life has to offer
through good education, in the same manner that there are, also,
those who could hardly move on in life due to abject poverty.
  • Others tried to seek their destiny with their own strength
    and determination. Time has come for some of them to look
    back and try to help make a difference in the life and future
    of our youths in the community. "For the future belongs to
    the youth and the youth holds the light of the future with
    ardent passion to make a difference in his/her life...". Lest
    we forget, Dr. Jose P. Rizal once said that, "The youth is
    the hope of the motherland".
  • Nabuclod Aeta Community has a long way to go and needs
    a lot of help to make the Community Youth Leadership and
    Empowerment Program Model of the Foundation work side-
    by-side with that of the Calantas. However, as you explore
    and learn more about the situation of the Aetas, you will
    better understand the intent of the Foundation on how to
    make the said Program work for them.
  • In the final analysis, the Foundation is investing in the
    future of our youths who will, hopefully, become socially
    responsible leaders of tomorrow.
  • For one, the President of the Philippines, empowers our
    youths "to finish their studies and go on to become
    productive members of our society". We believe that her
    message will leave an indelible mark of empowerment for
    our youths to believe in themselves and study hard to make
    their dreams come true and to the best of what they are
    capable of being and becoming as they discover for
    themselves that they have a moment in time of their life to
    prove, not only to the Foundation, but to themselves that
    they can excel through the Community Youth Leadership
    and Empowerment Program Model, as they learn to
    become socially responsible.
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  • The Calantas Young Dreamers Foundation, Inc. is
    established in response to the ideals, aspirations and
    dreams in life of youths living in abject poverty found in
    Philippine rural areas like Barrio Calantas and Nabuclod
    Aeta Community. With that in mind, this website is
    created to communicate to you the CONTENT and
    PROCESS about its MISSION in the said two areas, that is:
    "to empower indigent but deserving talented youths
    living in abject poverty found in Philippine rural areas
    like Bo.Calantas and Nabuclod Aeta Community
    located in Floridablanca, Pampanga thru Community
    Youth Leadership and Empowerment Program Model,
    with a methodology called SWREM Theory In Action
    that is designed to help them help themselves, so they
    can help incoming scholars leading to breaking their
    cycle of poverty as they learn to become socially
    responsible, with implications, not only to personal
    but community growth and development; and to
    promote replication advocacy of said Model in other
    communities beginning with Bo. Benedicto in the
    town of Floridablanca, Pampanga."
  • Having said that, the process of "helping our indigent but
    deserving talented youths" will eventually create a "ripple
    effect" of growth and development in the said communities
    through its methodology called "SWREM Theory In
    Action". SWREM is an acronym for "Spiral With Ripple
    Effect Motion" and is designed to empower youths in the
    target communities become more socially responsible and
    productive members of society leading to breaking their
    cycle of poverty, as the ticking of the clock continues to
    create a rhythmic sound until the cock crows in the early
    dawn of day to announce the success of the Community
    Youth Leadership and Empowerment Program Model.
  • Calantas has already seen some of her children move on
    successfully because they have a "family" who struggled
When dream
becomes a reality,
then reality
becomes a dream.
So, dream a better
dream
(a better world) and
work to make it real"
(A Dialogue Excerpt
from Movie:
Adventures of
Sharkboy & Lavagirl)
The
Calantas Young
Dreamers
Foundation, Inc.
dreams of
Community Growth
and Development in
Philippine Rural
Areas thru a
Scholarship Project
Model  with SWREM
Theory In Action as
its methodology, that
is designed to help
indigent but deserving
talented youths help
themselves so they
can help incoming
scholars
leading to breaking
their cycle of poverty
as they learn to
become
socially responsible
tIt is s with humility that we should take full responsibility of our own actions to hopefully lead us see a brighter future for our own
community. We need to discern and ask ourselves of what we can do for our community and not to ask what our
community can do for us (JFK) to effect growth and development, affecting not only to break the cycle of
poverty, but to effect growth and development in our midst, in a socially responsible manner.
Food For Thought...