Mission and Vision:

We shape wings that makes youth fly
and paint their dreams across the sky
Propelled by winds that soar them high
and be their own change as days pass by

Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay is an enterprise of emerging young...
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Mission and Vision:

We shape wings that makes youth fly
and paint their dreams across the sky
Propelled by winds that soar them high
and be their own change as days pass by

Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay is an enterprise of emerging young leaders of naturally-formed peer groups in highly exploitative environments and risk spaces connected with a common dream for youth empowerment. Gabay as commonly called, is a registered non-stock, non-profit and non-government organization established in 1999. Since it’s founding, it has pioneered youth-led development principles in harnessing human capacities that engage young people in decision-making processes in their spheres of influence, offering them life tools that facilitate in making informed decisions and in shaping their own solutions to issues confronting them particularly education, poverty and sexual and reproductive health. Recognized as one the most outstanding youth organizations in the Philippines in 2003 in Iloilo City and 2008 in Bacolod City by the National Youth Commission.

Gabay achieved its corporate status in the year 2004 and at the securities and exchange commission in 2004 with SEC registration CN 200428651 and with the Department of Social Welfare and Development in 2005 with license FO6-2005-0042 and registration FO6-2005-0108.

The organization is registered with the Bureau of Internal Revenue in 2005 with registration - OCN 2005-074-00a4322; and tax identification number TIN-006-130-013-00 and in 2006 obtained its Tax Exemption with ruling number RDA RR-11 RN 002-0.

Earliest registration is at the National Youth Commission with national registration number NYC 019-2003


We incorporated entrepreneurial efforts to transition our members into better and dignified means of livelihood, lifting them from their poverty, illiteracy and exploitation and make them capable in addressing the health and psychosocial sequels resulting from these three conditions through earned income. To achieve this, we enterprise our members into ventures of their peer groups.

The idea of enterprising its members takes it roots in the in 2005 which began in the project HEART or Healing Empowerment, Affirmation-Reaffirmation and Transform where children and youth who are victims of violence craft arts as a form of creative therapy. Arts are transformed into art products, packaged and sold for a price. The first outputs were developed into calendars and was showcased during the "Festival of Arts of Children Living on the Streets" held at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. 3000 Calendars were created and generated 200,000 pesos dividend that supported 60 peer educators for their educational support.

In December 2008, the organization initiated its first annual organizational evaluation of its achievements. As the following was the general finding:

“Despite reaching 60 communities, identified 800 peer leaders, trained 400 peer educators and served 8,000 at-risk youth since 1998, we realize that only 1% were transitioned to dignified sources of living”.

Furthermore, we ask ourselves,

“It seems that every time we engage ourselves with new donor-funded projects, we get out from our track and run for the goals of others. After the project, the donors leave us just as they found us and we are left without achieving our own goals in transitioning our members into better and dignified sources of living”

In 2008, two private organizations, the Starbucks Social Entrepreneur’s Fund (now Starbucks Youth Action Grants) and the Coke Barakda provided small grants that helped the organization develop its youth-led development framework, the Yearn, Learn and Earn through Peer Entrepreneurship our YouthLEAP Framework. In 2009-2010, Social Edge through its Global Social Benefit Incubator provided the organization on-line professional mentoring on developing a business plan for the YouthLEAP initiative.

With the series of success and recognitions, the initiative was featured as a youth good practice in the UNGASS 2010 country report and received a plaque of recognition from UNFPA in Pakistan as a Champion for HIV prevention and Care during the International AIDS Conference in Vienna.

In 2009, the organization reached a national constituency of more than 3,000 covering the National Capital Region, Luzon and Mindanao. On May 2010 it established its social enterprise outfit, the Peers Enabling Each other’s Recovery Social Network (PEERS.network) which enables members to keep in touch with each other for support though the internet with the MyPEERS.net Social Business Units as its youth livelihood and employment component.

Toward this end, we pursue entrepreneurial means to uplift our members by equipping them the entrepreneurial competence on business management, information technology as well as the facilities, start-up capital and mentoring to co-own, manage and operate a MyPEERS.net social business units that serve to generate their financial means to improve their source of livelihood and sustain their change efforts
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Peers Enabling Each other’s Recovery Social Network is the social enterprise outfit of the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay that venture its members to co-own, manage and operate a MyPEERS.net social business units that serve to generate their financial means to improve their source of...
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Peers Enabling Each other’s Recovery Social Network is the social enterprise outfit of the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay that venture its members to co-own, manage and operate a MyPEERS.net social business units that serve to generate their financial means to improve their source of livelihood and sustain their change efforts

Specifically, those enrolled are in their sobriety stage and who had served their communities as peer educators who have completed 40 hours peer education training, served 240 hours of community outreach and peer education and reached at least a 100 peers.

Using the YouthLEAP framework, a youth-led development framework has four main areas of work that contribute to the strengthening of the constituency of Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay.

1. Peer outreach and peer guidance - reaching out to most -at-risk, young people whose HIV risk behaviors are at the same time clandestine in nature and integrate them in the circle of influence among those surviving same conditions

2. Peer learning facilitation - facilitate peer-based learning such as, peer education, peer counselling, peer mentoring and dialogue among and between communities and referrals to sustainable HIV and STI prevention, treatment and care interventions with local service providers

3. Peer entrepreneurship - members are undergoing therapeutic creative activities producing artistic outputs which are sold with a price through the MyPEERS.net social business units operated by ventured peer entrepreneurs.

4. Self-measurement of change - through the "River-of-Life" Chart, community groups are encourage to periodically assess their risk behaviors, benchmark own change goals, learn and share from each other, measure progress and celebrate own change and together enabling each other's recovery.

Under the peer entrepreneurship program,
the enterprise is managing the MyPEERSnetwork Social Business Units to pursue entrepreneurial means to transition our peer educators into peer entrepreneurs by equipping them the entrepreneurial competence on business management, information technology as well as the facilities, start-up capital and mentoring to co-own, manage and operate a MyPEERS.net social business units that serve to generate their financial means to improve their source of livelihood and sustain their change efforts.

The peer entrepreneurship program is operationalised by the YouthLEAP framework for the enterprise. The framework is recognised as a good practice by the the UNAIDS in the UNGASS 2010 Country Report of the Philippines: (http://www.unaids.org/en/dataanalysis/monitoringcountryprogress/2010progressreportssubmittedbycountries/philippines_2010_country_progress_report_en.pdf)

Specifically the framework has 5 goals:

1. Improve youth’s social capital by creating positive peer environment, local support, enabling structures, processing of statutory licenses,

2. Improve youth’s human capital by enhancing entrepreneurial competence, readiness to engage in sustainable livelihood activity

3. Improve street youth’s access to physical assets by acquisition of loan, provision of co-investments and equity-capital, opening of individual and peer-group savings

4. Improve youth financial capital and wealth generation ability through engagement in sustainable business operations and management of there own MyPEERSnetwork social business unit.

5. Improve youth monitoring and evaluation of their performance, lessons learning, reflections and celebration of their success and replication/roll-out of MyPEERS.net to other peer groups
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Develop Business Plans for Peer Entrepreneurs

This business plan leads the way to operationalize the YouthLEAP framework through the organization’s PEER.net Venture and MyPEERS.net social business units. The venture reinvigorates KGPP’s vision and mission toward transforming the...
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Develop Business Plans for Peer Entrepreneurs

This business plan leads the way to operationalize the YouthLEAP framework through the organization’s PEER.net Venture and MyPEERS.net social business units. The venture reinvigorates KGPP’s vision and mission toward transforming the peer leaders into entrepreneurs and their peer groups into ventures who will operate a social business that they co-own and operate to a point that it financially sustains itself from internally-generated cash flow.

MyPEERS.net unlocks the potential of the increasing popularity of the internet in strengthening youth’s engagement in sustainable livelihood. At MYPEERS.net Cybercafé, we provide affordable, accessible, youth-friendly, 24-hour internet access and gaming for young enthusiast and one-stop IT and business solutions for students and young professionals. Unlike ordinary internet shops, our costumers learn our advocacy efforts while patronizing our services which in turn expand our network of socially-conscious internet users toward a safer cyber environment for the youth and the general public. Uniquely, we bring the possibility that internet cafés can be an engine in generating financial and social returns that any vulnerable peer-group can operate right in their own communities.
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