Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute

rdf:langString Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute

rdf:langString Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan

rdf:langString Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute

rdf:langString Society of Jesus, MISEREOR

rdf:langString Maria Rosario P. Mosqueda, Ph.D.

rdf:langString Roel R. Ravanera, M.A., M.S.Ag.

rdf:langString Veritas Liberabit Vos

rdf:langString SEARSOLIN, Manresa

rdf:langString Fr. Mars P. Tan, S.J., Ph.D.

rdf:langString Research and Social Outreach unit

rdf:langString The Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute or SEARSOLIN is one of the research and social outreach units of Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan, located in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. It is an international training center dedicated to the formation of socially committed and competent leaders in the struggle for poverty alleviation and holistic human development within the context of diverse cultural and religious traditions in the Asia-Pacific and Africa. It aspires for no less than a just social order where respect for human dignity, deference of various religious beliefs, equitable distribution of wealth and care of the bounty of the earth shall prevail. The training programs are geared towards the understanding of poverty, the process that lead or perpetuate it and adoption of the skills necessary to alleviate it such that in the final analysis, the poor will be primary beneficiaries of the SEARSOLIN programs. It is part of the 50-hectare campus of the university located in the Upper Carmen area, known affectionately by students, staff, and alumni alike as the "Manresa Farm" (named after the town in Spain where St. Ignatius of Loyola, one of the three co-founders of the Society of Jesus, prayed in solitude in a nearby cave from 1522-23).

rdf:langString Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan College of Agriculture

rdf:langString Poverty alleviation, Social leadership, and Human development