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Apostleship of the Sea Philippines Office: 3 rd Flr Pope Pius XII Center ,1175 UN Avenue, Manila SEC Registration No. 1499

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Apostleship of the Sea Philippines Office: 3rd Flr Pope Pius XII Center ,1175 UN Avenue, Manila

SEC Registration No. 1499

La Union

Manila

Batangas

Cebu

Maasin

Bohol

Gensan

Cagayan de Oro

IliganDavao

Locator Map

1st

AOS Manila 1958

2nd

AOS/Davao 1987

5thAOS Iligan 1998 6th

AOS Maasin 2001

AOS Formation in the Philippines

3rdAOS Cebu 1991

4th

AOS Cagayan de Oro 1997

8thAOS Batangas 2004

7thAOS San Fernando 2001

9th

AOS Tagbilaran 2006

10th

AOS General Santos City 2006

Vision:

A Catholic organization that promotes

spiritual well-being and human

development of seafarers, fishers,

and their families regardless of race,

culture and religion.

Mission Statement:

AOS Philippines’ Chaplains and Pastoral

Workers commit to creatively implement

the guidelines and directives provided by

the church on the pastoral care for the

people of the sea.Goals:

1.That the people of the sea have access to legal

services; rights of people of the sea are

protected;

2. The people of the seas have access to legal

services;

3. AOS centers are strengthened and sustained;

4.

Goals:

4. Empowering people of the sea and their

families;

5.That the external partnerships are forged

and sustained with Government and Non-

Government Organizations, Religious and

Non- Religious Organizations;

6. Strengthened integrity of AOS-

Philippines; and

7.Engagement of AOS in the awareness and

advocacy on maritime issues.

Bishop Promoter

National Director

Council 1

LUZON

Council 2

VISAYAS

Council 3

MINDANAO

Archbishop

AOS Director/Chaplain

Co – Worker of the Chaplain

Ship Visitor AOS Volunteers

AOS Organizational Chart

Port/Archdiocese level

I. Pastoral Care for Seafarers, Dependents and

Families

1. Ship Visitation: Domestic and International

• All the ports are conducting varied activities

on board like prayer sessions, liturgical

celebrations, faith sharing, information,

education sessions on MLC 2006; have reached

out more or less 15,000 seafarers with Manila

the highest recorded ship visits.

2. Eucharistic Celebrations at the

Passengers’ Terminal or pre-departure

areas, Port Chapels for the regular

employees working at the different

offices in the Port area.

3. Sick visitation for the sick seafarers

and fishers in hospitals or at home.

II. Port Welfare Services

• Stella Maris Centers are availing lodging,

recreational, computers with internet

ready facilities, canteen, fax machines,

vehicles, etc. to the seafarers, their

families on visits, maritime students and

job seekers (Manila, Cebu and Gen Santos,

Batangas)

III. Assistance to the Families

a. Organizing of Seafarers families and

dependents/Wives/Youth/Children

• all the AOS Centers are facilitating

the organization of the families and

dependents for peer support systems

and active volunteerism services to

the Center;

• conducting financial literacy, values

formation.

b. Formation: (Values, Religious/Catechesis,

etc.) •All the ports are facilitating faith

formations related activities to the

families and children of the

seafarers and to the Maritime

Students.

•The Manila AOS Center is

championing the values formation

program as Fr. Paulo and his team

moves around the country as

Resource Person for the massive

audiences.

c. Recollection and Retreats (Thematic:

Holy Week, Advent, etc.)

• Thematic recollections were done

on board vessels and also conducted

with the families and children/ youth

of the seafarers, it also provided

opportunities for the seafarers to join

in the activities when they are on

shore leave.

IV. Legal/Para-legal Services

1. Handling of complaints, case conferences

and repatriation (Seafarers, families,

fishers, dead bodies).

• The cases handled are ranging from

labor disputes, VAWC cases,

allotment, criminal cases like: foul

play of alleged suicide, missing on

board, etc.

V. MAJOR EVENTS AND CELEBRATIONS

1. Maritime Week

2. IMO Seafarers Day = June 25; and

3. National Seafarers Sunday= Catholic

Church every last Sunday of September

▪ In the Philippines AOS actively joins with the

government by participating in the activities.

The National Seafarers Sunday

This is celebrated with festivities by all the

AOS Centers in the Philippines together with

the families, dependents of the seafarers,

manning agencies, shipping lines and

partners in the ministry.

There are different forms of celebrations as

there are many AOS Centers like: liturgical

celebration, motorcade, fluvial parade,

memorial, legal cliniquing, job fair, maritime

students’ parade, etc.

In the Philippines AOS actively joins with the

government agencies in all of these

celebrations. (MARINA, PPA, PCG).

NATIONAL SEAFARERS

SUNDAY CELEBRATION

VI. FISHERS

In the Philippines, out of 10 AOS Centers, only

one port is directly seriously engaging with the

Fishers due to a very lucrative fishing business

in the area-the AOS General Santos City.

AOS General Santos City begun its services

with the fishers in 2011 when cases of fishers

detention and repatriation begun to flock or

come to the fore needing direct intervention of

the center.

• cases of detention in the different detention

centers of Indonesia due to illegal entry and

illegal fishing

• Cases of illegal trafficking among fishers

In other regions/areas, intervention to

fisher folks is more on giving lectures like

financial literacy and values formation

STELLA MARIS EDUCATIONAL

ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

this program is for the children of

Porters and vendors in the Port of

Cagayan de Oro( 36 scholars)

THANK YOU!