Service and Partnership through
Linguistics, Literacy and Translation

SIL International: Philippines is a volunteer, non-profit organization that has worked in the Philippines since 1953. In cooperation with the Philippines Department of Education, SIL members carry out linguistic research and documentation of the languages and cultures of ethnolinguistic communities of the Philippines. As appropriate to the language community, SIL also promotes literacy, health, and community development projects among speakers of those languages, as well as translation of materials of high moral value into local languages.