SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Barrio obrero, Iloilo City
is an elementary school founded in 1967 to serve the children at the “Workingman’s Village”, a government land reclaimed from swamps for the hundreds of families left homeless by the great fire of 1951 in Iloilo City.
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Date Founded: 1967 Educational Level Offered: Elementary Average Enrollment per year: 355 Actual Cost of Education: P8,000/year Average Student Contribution to Cost of Education: Pl,658/year |
...to help them become children of the community and not children of the streets...
Bo. Obrero or Workingman's Village is a 26-hectare government land reclaimed from swamps and from the sea where the hundreds of families left homeless by the great fire of 1951 in Iloilo City were relocated.
Asumption Socio-Educational Center (ASEC) was established by the Auxiliary Missionaries of the Assumption, Inc. (AMA, Inc.), a dedicated group of Assumption-Iloilo graduates and friends who came to bring food, clothing, and shelter to the fire victims.
AMA, Inc. first set-up a medical clinic, then an elementary school for the urban poor children which they placed under the administration of the Religious of the Assumption. A grade was added each year until the school sent out its first graduates in 1975.
ASEC offers a community-oriented Christian education to equip the child with knowledge, attitude
and skills necessary for him/her to respond to the call of his/her community.
It takes a village to raise a child. In Bo. Obrero, the "village", included the children, the families and
neighbors, ASEC, the Assumption sisters, donors and friends, and a dedicated group of men and women called AMA. Inc.
Bo. Obrero or Workingman's Village is a 26-hectare government land reclaimed from swamps and from the sea where the hundreds of families left homeless by the great fire of 1951 in Iloilo City were relocated.
Asumption Socio-Educational Center (ASEC) was established by the Auxiliary Missionaries of the Assumption, Inc. (AMA, Inc.), a dedicated group of Assumption-Iloilo graduates and friends who came to bring food, clothing, and shelter to the fire victims.
AMA, Inc. first set-up a medical clinic, then an elementary school for the urban poor children which they placed under the administration of the Religious of the Assumption. A grade was added each year until the school sent out its first graduates in 1975.
ASEC offers a community-oriented Christian education to equip the child with knowledge, attitude
and skills necessary for him/her to respond to the call of his/her community.
It takes a village to raise a child. In Bo. Obrero, the "village", included the children, the families and
neighbors, ASEC, the Assumption sisters, donors and friends, and a dedicated group of men and women called AMA. Inc.
