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Maximizing the time and attendance on the afternoon of December 16, 2022, the Xavier Science Foundation (XSF) reconvened 39 young leaders representing 21 barangays within the Mt. Kalatungan landscape in the province of Bukidnon, Mindanao for the activity titled Youth, Land and Culture: A Summit for Young Defenders towards Protecting Ancestral Domain at the Hotel De Susana, Bagontaas, Valencia City, Bukidnon. This time, the summit is under XSF’s project Mt. Kalatungan BioCon: Creating...

Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF) in partnership with the SD (Sustainable Development) Environmental Projects distributed over 2,200 Project Buhay cookstoves in five (5) barangays in Pangantucan, Bukidnon on February 23 to 25, 2023. The Project Buhay cookstoves aims to reduce carbon emissions, wood consumption, local deforestation, indoor air pollution, and social burdens caused by inefficient biomass cooking. The activity is in line with XSF’s Payment for Ecosystems (PES) initiative in...

XSF was selected as one of the 20 finalists for the Local Adaptation Champions Awards under the Financial Governance Category. The Foundation’s work in the Mt. Kalatungan Range promotes and advocates the Payment for Ecosystems Services (PES), a voluntary payment mechanism that creates incentives among businesses, organizations, and individuals to finance indigenous communities in upland areas rich in biodiversity, to plant endemic forest trees and coffee was recognized as a pioneering...

“My friends, only those who can see the invisible, God in man and his providential actuations, can do the impossible”, a famous quote from the visionary himself, Fr. William F. Masterson of the Society of Jesus. Continuing Fr. Masterson’s legacy, Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF) refrained from its traditional celebration of feast and party to a two-day immersion of giving and feeding the hungry in barangay Zamboanguita, Malaybalay City in Bukidnon on September 9 to 10, 2022. The event...

On February 16, 2022, Xavier Science Foundation organized a Global Land Tool Network – Secure Access to Land and Resources Sharing of Best Practices and Lessons Learned forum titled, “Consolidating the Application of Innovative Land Tools for Promoting the Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers in the Philippines” held at the Margarette Hotel, Maramag, Bukidnon. Participants and representatives from partner IPOs and Barangay Local Government Units attended to share their best practices and...

The project Enhancement of Community Capacity for Sustainable Ecological Protection and Economic Development (ECOSEED) – Phase 2 conducted an ICT and Communication training, emphasizing on effective communication and social media management. The ECOSEED-2 project is implemented by Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. in partnership with Forest Foundation Philippines. The training consisted of a 1-day program but was conducted for 2 days to cater all IPOs, in accordance with the mandated...