PJPS needs Hope Igniters: Content Writer Volunteers to help us plan and produce content for our social media platforms to promote the organization, its work, and its events to increase brand awareness and audience engagement. Help us help the free society learn and understand about prison realities, and how PJPS and other prison ministries initiate helping everyone —free society and prison society— have a safer and more caring community. 

How would you want our society to be? Have you ever imagined our world where hope, love, or understanding blooms? Use your skills in writing and help us reach more people, increase engagements and donations for our vital work of bringing the free society and prison society together for the common good. We will be writing content as inspired by the stories of hope of the whole prison society (persons deprived of liberty, ex-PDLs, their families; volunteers, and prison officers) making the call for a strong commitment to rehabilitation.

We are looking for volunteers who can commit to 3 hours weekly for a minimum of twelve weeks. Volunteers can reside anywhere in the world.

The scheduled orientation is on June 10, 2023, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm via Zoom. Registered volunteers will be contacted via email. 

For more info, please contact Henry via email at advocacy@pjps.org.ph. 

About Philippine Jesuit Prison Service, Foundation, Inc. 

Location: New Bilibid Prison Reservation, Muntinlupa City

Mission Statement: 

PJPS is a non-stock non-profit organization that provides services, and holistic rehabilitation, to the corrections community, particularly with the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) in Muntinlupa City. It is a socio-pastoral apostolate of the Society of Jesus (Philippine Province).

Tracing the Roots

PJPS was born in 1994 when the Society of Jesus recognized the prison service that was started by Fr. Victor Labao at the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City as an official apostolate of its Philippine Province. Its involvement inside the National Penitentiary was initially pastoral and sacramental. Active engagement in the ministry, however, led Jesuit priests and volunteers to work in whatever program and service that could best help the inmates' holistic development. 

Serving as an NGO

In 1995, PJPS was enlisted as a non-stock non-profit organization at the Securities and Exchange Commission. As the institution slowly evolved as it responded to the needs of the prison community, the organization was re-incorporated in 2007 as there was an increasing need to be more organized, structured, and formal. This helped PJPS to be more effective in the development work inside the national penitentiary. It was also a move to step up efforts to raise funds that will ensure the financial sustainability of the organization and the continuation of its programs. 

In 2012, the organization was accredited by the Department of Social Welfare (community-based) Agency. Later in 2018, DSWD issued a Certificate of Accreditation to PJPS for satisfactorily complying with the first-level standards in implementing community-based programs and services for children, youth, inmates, families, and communities.