Rooted in Hope. Growing Through Community.
At Lilok Foundation, we believe transformation begins where people are seen, heard, and empowered.
What started in 1993 as a response to the struggles of urban poor communities in Manila has grown into a movement for holistic learning and social change. From creative youth work and leadership training to hands-on farm retreats, we equip individuals and communities to live with dignity, act with courage, and dream beyond poverty. Our journey is shaped by people — their resilience, their stories, and their shared commitment to building a more just world.
Rooted in Hope.
Growing Through Community.
At Lilok Foundation, we believe transformation begins where people are seen, heard, and empowered. What started in 1993 as a response to the struggles of urban poor communities in Manila has grown into a movement for holistic learning and social change. From creative youth work and leadership training to hands-on farm retreats, we equip individuals and communities to live with dignity, act with courage, and dream beyond poverty. Our journey is shaped by people — their resilience, their stories, and their shared commitment to building a more just world.
Mission
Lilok Foundation is a faith based, non-profit and non-government organization that seeks to serve urban poor leaders, to facilitate their learning, and to empower them toward servant leadership by means of modeling, transformative education and mentoring programs.
Organizational Vision
A diverse community, fully committed to promoting wholistic faith in Jesus Christ through transformational training that genuinely liberates, yet remains appropriate and relevant to the Filipino people.
Societal Vision
A society where economic activity and the use of power benefit all persons equally, regardless of race, identity, sexuality or any other distinction; where there is concern for the ‘other’; where the fruits of development are for everyone, including future generations; where the dignity of life is appreciated and respected; and where creation is sensitively preserved as a perpetual source of life and livelihood for all.
Our Objectives
To train leaders of urban poor communities who are acting and living holistically, growing in Christian maturity and wisdom and becoming effective agents of transformation in the communities they serve.
History
Lilok Foundation was founded in collaboration with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor in the year 1993 out of a grassroots movement of urban poor Christian leaders seeking training for justice-oriented community action. Born from their struggle against demolition threats and exclusion from formal theological education, Lilok Foundation became a space for alternative, wholistic, and liberating formation. Over the decades, Lilok Foundation has grown to offer courses, camps, and retreats that continue to empower individuals and communities for wholistic transformation.
Core Values
Wholism
Wholistic faith in Jesus Christ that is beneficial to individuals, wider society and the environment.
Transformation
Training that transforms individuals and groups through exposure, challenge, critique and creativity.
Action-Reflection-Integration
Deep reflection generating effective action for the development of self and society (action–reflection–integration).
Sambahayanan
Prioritizing our own members, yet willing to journey with other like-minded organizations in the pursuit of righteousness, justice and God’s kingdom purposes through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Personal and Organizational Growth
Participants flourishing through educational assistance and livelihood development; and the organisation strengthened in its promotion of Christian ethics such as love for God, respect for the dignity of all life, and care for the environment.
Our Team
Lilok Foundation Incorporated
The team in the Philippines has two blocks of staff, one for Sanayang Lilok (Lilok Foundation Training Center) in Quezon City, and the other for Sakahang Lilok (Lilok Foundation Farm) in Tanay, Rizal.
From left to right, top row: Jerome, Doris, Genalyn, Adam, Reven, Rachel, Jo-Ann, Michael, Mariben, Ronaldo, Bienvenido, Rhea, Ricky, Condrad
From left to right, bottom row: Domenic, Kathleen, John Paul, Jeffrey, Carlo, Rodel
Lilok-Farm - Natur lehrt Leben (Association)
The team in Switzerland is concerned mainly with fundraising and consists of a group of supporters of Lilok Foundation’s mission.
Note: “Lilok Foundation” is the shared public name used across this website for both the Swiss association “Lilok-Farm – Natur lehrt Leben” and its partner organization in the Philippines, “Lilok Foundation, Inc.”.
History
Lilok Foundation was founded in collaboration with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor in the year 1993 out of a grassroots movement of urban poor Christian leaders seeking training for justice-oriented community action. Born from their struggle against demolition threats and exclusion from formal theological education, Lilok Foundation became a space for alternative, wholistic, and liberating formation. Over the decades, Lilok Foundation has grown to offer courses, camps, and retreats that continue to empower individuals and communities for wholistic transformation.
Rooted in Hope. Growing Through Community.
At Lilok Foundation, we believe transformation begins where people are seen, heard, and empowered. What started in 1993 as a response to the struggles of urban poor communities in Manila has grown into a movement for holistic learning and social change. From creative youth work and leadership training to hands-on farm retreats, we equip individuals and communities to live with dignity, act with courage, and dream beyond poverty. Our journey is shaped by people — their resilience, their stories, and their shared commitment to building a more just world.
Mission
Lilok Foundation is a faith based, non-profit and non-government organization that seeks to serve urban poor leaders, to facilitate their learning, and to empower them toward servant leadership by means of modeling, transformative education and mentoring programs.
Organizational Vision
A diverse community, fully committed to promoting wholistic faith in Jesus Christ through transformational training that genuinely liberates, yet remains appropriate and relevant to the Filipino people.
Societal Vision
A society where economic activity and the use of power benefit all persons equally, regardless of race, identity, sexuality or any other distinction; where there is concern for the ‘other’; where the fruits of development are for everyone, including future generations; where the dignity of life is appreciated and respected; and where creation is sensitively preserved as a perpetual source of life and livelihood for all.
Our Objectives
To train leaders of urban poor communities who are acting and living holistically, growing in Christian maturity and wisdom and becoming effective agents of transformation in the communities they serve.
History
Lilok Foundation was founded in collaboration with Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor in the year 1993 out of a grassroots movement of urban poor Christian leaders seeking training for justice-oriented community action. Born from their struggle against demolition threats and exclusion from formal theological education, Lilok Foundation became a space for alternative, wholistic, and liberating formation. Over the decades, Lilok Foundation has grown to offer courses, camps, and retreats that continue to empower individuals and communities for wholistic transformation.
Core Values
Wholism
Wholistic faith in Jesus Christ that is beneficial to individuals, wider society and the environment.
Transformation
Training that transforms individuals and groups through exposure, challenge, critique and creativity.
Action-Reflection-Integration
Deep reflection generating effective action for the development of self and society (action–reflection–integration).
Sambahayanan
Prioritizing our own members, yet willing to journey with other like-minded organizations in the pursuit of righteousness, justice and God’s kingdom purposes through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Personal and Organizational Growth
Participants flourishing through educational assistance and livelihood development; and the organisation strengthened in its promotion of Christian ethics such as love for God, respect for the dignity of all life, and care for the environment.
Our Team
Lilok Foundation Incorporated
The team in the Philippines has two blocks of staff, one for Sanayang Lilok (Lilok Foundation Training Center) in Quezon City, and the other for Sakahang Lilok (Lilok Foundation Farm) in Tanay, Rizal.
From left to right, top row: Jerome, Doris, Genalyn, Adam, Reven, Rachel, Jo-Ann, Michael, Mariben, Ronaldo, Bienvenido, Rhea, Ricky, Condrad
From left to right, bottom row: Domenic, Kathleen, John Paul, Jeffrey, Carlo, Rodel
Lilok-Farm - Natur lehrt Leben (Association)
The team in Switzerland is concerned mainly with fundraising and consists of a group of supporters of Lilok Foundation’s mission.
Note: “Lilok Foundation” is the shared public name used across this website for both the Swiss association “Lilok-Farm – Natur lehrt Leben” and its partner organization in the Philippines, “Lilok Foundation, Inc.”.