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February 19, 2016 I don’t want to start my birthday with loads of negative emotions, so I’m just gonna let these all out. You already probably heard about it. Yes, about Manny Pacquiao’s statement, his usage of words from the Bible to back it up, and the outrage of the LGBTQIA+ community against it. Now,

February 15, 2016 Greetings from NYC, USA! Now that we’ve reached our second year as an organization, it’s a good idea to remember why we do the things we do. Why are we HAPI? Trailblazers First: we are HAPI because we envision ourselves as the trailblazers of secular humanism in the Philippines. This is our

Mr. Olarte works as a  Knowledge Management  Adviser for the United Nations Headquarters  in New York.  HAPI will be having its first General Assembly on 21 February 2016 in Hamersons Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines. The purposes of the GA are to strengthen the strategy of the HAPI organization and the sense of community of members. “We believe

Jennifer C. Gutierrez,  Climate leader, trained under the Climate Reality Leadership Corps in Canada by VP AL Gore The Executive Director’s Report FORESTS OF HOPE and HAPI-ness: When the HAPI TREES Project Unfold The HAPI Trees Nationwide Tree Planting Project is not just an ordinary tree planting activity, not in a sense that unlike those

January 27, 2016 I joined HAPI in honour of the borderlands, “Other” child I used to be; to retroactively tell her that curiousity, wonder, and questions are not sins needing absolution, but rather, they are wings that make me soar above the clouds to get a better view of the human condition. Joining HAPI is

Ruben Tulud, Egyptologist and Poet  January 26, 2016 HAPI is attracting the best of the best. Indeed, water seeks its own level. Mr Tulud has been known to me since 2010, doing some quiet but noble work. I have known him better when we went to Baguio as a team in 2013. He was the

Godless Grace Foundation was just recently founded by  David  Orenstein, Ph.D, to serve the growing needs of the secular society internationally. Our very own HAPI Chairperson,  Marissa Torres Langseth, RN, MSN, ANP, BC, was offered a volunteer position as one of the Board of Trustees of the said charity institution, which she gladly accepted, as

Metro Manila  Area:  For HAPI Kids** 070 Purok 7C-Ilaya St, Alabang Muntinlupa City, Manila, Philippines +63 933 977 6874  https://www.facebook.com/hapilibrary/?hc_location=ufi   Metro Manila Near UST:   Dos Castillas St 1125 Sampaloc, Quezon City, Philippines 5210056 care of  KUYA MANZANO http://ichilltheatercafe.com/  https://www.facebook.com/ichilltheatercafe/?fref=ts  For Metro Cebu : Library and HAPI Office:  c/o  Pattie Milton – 13-3 Washington St, Royale

Humanism is quite a new concept in the Philippines. A few atheists have been propagating their ignorance about the meaning of humanism. They think humanism is all about giving, charity or humanitarianism. As atheists, they could have done their own research, but, they’d rather paint HAPI a different color of their ignorance. Don’t we want