Seminar Workshop on Storytelling  for Pre-School and Elementary Teacher, May 24, 2012

 HUMEIN Works in Palawan, May 18-20, 2012

HUMEIN-Phils, Inc. is an association of professionals that promotes the human ecological perspective in both research and practice, in the country. Organized barely five years ago, our vision is to be “a leading interdisciplinary professional organization in the country to promote human ecology towards attaining human centered, self-reliant, and ecologically stable communities.”

Our beginnings...

The Human Ecology Institute of the Philippines, Inc. (HUMEIN-Phils) traces its roots from the College of Human Ecology (CHE) of the University of the Philippines, Los Banos (UPLB). Established in 1974, the CHE, then called the Institute of Human Ecology (IHE), was the third institution in the world, and the only one the country until today, offering a BSc degree course in Human Ecology, a pioneering discipline, which in the words of its first Dean, Dr. Gil F. Saguiguit, Sr., “covers the interrelationships of man and his environment – that is, man affects the environment and the environment affects man… predominantly based on the social sciences and technologies, which bridges and ‘canalizes’ the physical and biological sciences and technologies to bear on the well-being of human beings and the social systems…and at the same time sustain, conserve and possibly enhance the environment… that is multidisciplinary as regards staff, programs, and projects, and its approaches and procedures are highly integrated and team oriented.”

However, it was only in November, 2005, while celebrating the College’s 31^st founding anniversary when a few alumni and faculty of the CHE thought it was about time to form a professional organization of human ecologists, to be composed of CHE alumni and professionals, not necessarily CHE graduates (but who likewise believe and practice interdisciplinary initiatives) who shall commit to work together to promote human ecology as a perspective and as a profession. An interim set of Board of Trustees was organized shortly thereafter, and on March 20, 2006 the association was duly registered in the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission.