Development for Peace in Sulu

The DPIS is a model program networking U.S. humanitarian and educational organizations with grassroots leaders to address underlying causes of conflict in Muslim Mindanao, the Philippines.

AAI President Al Santoli meeting with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone to inaugurate the Development for Peace in Sulu program. August 2002 also marked the first delivery of medical aid under the program.

A press confernece in Jolo, Sulu conducted by Philippine Secretary for Social Welfare Corazon Soliman, Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, ARMM (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) Governor Parouk Hussin, and Asia America Initiative President Al Santoli.

Al Santoli meeting with senior Muslim clergy in Sulu to plan the Development for Peace Program.

Former Philippine Senator Santanina Rasul, Director of the Magbassa Kita Foundation in Jolo.

Medical assistance program in an Abu Sayyaf village in Basilan, Philippines conducted by U.S. Army Special Forces and the Philippine Army. The Asia America Initiative facilitated the delivery of medical aid for the program.

Medical assistance program administered by the U.S. Army Special Forces and the Philippine Army on Basilan Island.

Al Santoli at an orphanage in Zamboanga, where assistance was provided by the AAI.

Children in a village on Basilan Island, a region notorious for Abu Sayyaf recruitment, during the U.S. Army Special Forces medical assistance program.

Street children in Zamboanga City, Mindanao were also assisted by the Asia America Initiative.