Bayani () is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in The Philippines. It formulates policies on education, social justice, labor advancement,

poverty alleviation Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics clas ...

, graph irradiation, and the advancement of marginalized professionals. Bayani Partylist is not associated with Bayani Fernando.

History

It was founded in 1997 as a multi-sectoral alliance. During

Typhoon Ondoy Typhoon Ketsana, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Ondoy, was the second-most devastating tropical cyclone of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, causing $1.15 billion in damages and 921 fatalities, only behind Morakot earlier in the sea ...

, the party distributed relief goods to the victims in cities in the Philippines and assisted out of school youth to seek employment.

Sources

We have brgy. chiefs’ support, says Manila-based party-list , Sun.Star

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