NATURE OF THE ORGANIZATION

Visayan Forum is a private, non-profit, non-stock,

non-government organization established in 1991,duly licensed and Accredited by the DSWD to provide

Program and services to women and children

Program and Services

Kasambahay Program

Counseling

Rescue and Pull out

Temporary Shelter

Trainings and Seminars

The Halfway

House

Program

Centers for

Trafficking Victims halfway houses, safe houses

and help desks

(24-hour protective services for victims and potential victims of trafficking)

Temporary Shelter

Informational

Assistance

Referral of Cases

Hotline Counseling

Outreaches

Training and Advocacy

MICROSOFT OFFICE 2010

The remarkable accumulation to Office

2010 is the introduction of Office Web

Apps. The lightweight versions of Word,

PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote that

are all accessible via desktop, mobile

devices, and web browsers Internet

Explorer and Firefox assist in our

delivery of report and office

communications.

Backstage View

Backstage is essentially one-stop shopping for information about documents and common tasks we can perform, such as saving and printing files.

The Info tab in Backstage is particularly useful, giving us imperative information about our existing file, such as the author and the last time it was modified, and letting us evaluate earlier versions.

Photo editing tools Also enhanced in Office 2010 are the photo-editing tools. We can easily select a photo or picture we've placed in a document, and a Format tab will appear with tools for editing images in a variety of ways, including sharpening or softening, changing the contrast and color saturation, cropping, eliminating the background, and adding a variety of "artistic effects.“ This facilitate the staff and our constituents to create more interesting documents with photos and take out the creativity of the children in our center to produce more realistic stories that we can share to the media and the bigger society.

Networking and collaboration

New co-authoring features in Excel, OneNote, and Word allow us to publish documents for collaboration, where individual team members can "check out" different sections of the same document for editing. Correspondingly, we can now broadcast our slideshows over the Internet:

Microsoft Word 2010

The new version of Word also makes it easier for us to insert pictures. We can now make significant edits once it's in our document:, such as adjusting the brightness and contrast, changing the image to grey scale, adding drop shadows, and more.

Those who like to pretty up documents will be pleased by a few new additions. We can now add special effects such as glow, reflect and shadow to text. There's also support for more sophisticated typography, such as using ligatures and small caps. For the children in our center this new version gives them delight in editing their documents.

EXCEL 2010

Outlook improvements

Outlook 2010 also makes it easier to administer conversations.

For example, if we want to forward a message to our colleagues,

instead of clicking forward and then typing their addresses into

the To box, we can just click the To link and the forwarded

message appears with the address already entered.

Photo/video/graphics in Word and PowerPoint

The photo-editing tools have gotten more sophisticated in Office

2010. We can apply artistic effects from within Word, Excel, and

PowerPoint. We can even get a thumbnail preview of what the

effect will look like when we applied it the picture.

The Office 2010 applications also include several new SmartArt

designs, to make it more likely that you’ll find one that fits the

needs of your document or slide.

NGO’s like us needs more designs especially in creating

presentations that will suit to the needs of the children in our

center and stakeholders.

Simultaneous editing

We often leave a document that we’re working on open on

one computer, and then need to open and work on it from a

different computer. Now we can pick up where we left off, or

two people can edit a document simultaneously.

Word can also cache shared documents so we can edit them

when were offline, and any changes we make will

automatically be synchronized with the original on the server

when we come back online.

POWERPOINT 2010

We can easily embed video clips from the Internet

into our PowerPoint presentations just the way we

embed Flash videos in regular web pages.

Built-in PDF Writer

All Office 2010 programs include a built in PDF

writer to help us save documents into the PDF

format with a click.

Document printing made simple

With Office 2010, Microsoft has completely revamped

the print dialog and it's a tremendous improvement. For

instance, we can tweak printer settings and preview the

changes side-by-side.

Video Editing and PowerPoint

PowerPoint 2010 now includes some very powerful

editing features.

Distribute your slides as video

PowerPoint 2010 helps us convert our presentation into a

video file that we may upload on to YouTube or other social

networking site.

Microsoft Publisher

We felt Microsoft Publisher was one of the easiest desktop

publishing programs to use. The control panel is easy to use and

the many templates are easy to edit. Microsoft Publisher has a

great variety of clipart and images as well as online resources for

downloading additional images.

Microsoft Publisher has some good printing and file sharing

options, including commercial printing tools that allow us to

choose whether or not to embed true type fonts as well as subset

font embedding. We can also set our registration printing settings

to "for publication" or "per object."

Microsoft 2010 helps in empowering victims to

• Make informed choices

• Seek immediate assistance

• Heal their wounds

• Acquire employable skills

• Regain their dignity

• Return to their families

• Prevent re-trafficking

• Participate, advocate

PREVENTION

• Addressing root causes

such as lack of

economic opportunities

• Challenging cultural

biases and

misconceptions

• Establishing LGUs or

community based

monitoring system

• “Protective Information”

for safe migration

•Effective information

dissemination and data

gathering

PROTECTION Timely and Appropriate Responses

•Systematic receipt of

reports

•Education support

•Skills training

HEALING AND REINTEGRATION

From Victims to Survivors

•Livelihood and viable

employment

•Training of trafficked

persons as advocates,

organizers or services

providers

Maraming Salamat po!

Visayan Forum Foundation Door 1, RGU Apartment, DMSF Drive, Bajada, Davao City