Bahay Pag-asa, a two-storey building of the new office and facilities was inaugurated
UN declared 2002 as the Year of the Mountains. MAFI co-initiated the “Call to Save Mountains of the World '' at the peak of Mt. Apo
The MAFI Board of Trustees expanded the benefits of the High School Financial Assistance Project (HSFAP) for more high schools, adopting other public schools located within Mt. Apo Natural Park.
MAFI and PNOC-EDC implemented a Teachers-to-the-Barangay Project (TTBP), a conduit project employing education graduates of MAFI and PNOC-EDC scholars to augment the need for Teachers in MAFI’s AOR.
PNOC-EDC implemented an inflationary adjustment to the ETWTF as part of the provision of the MOA
- The Board of Trustees of MAFI expanded the area of coverage of its Collegiate Scholarship Project to IP communities outside of its AOR but adjacent to barangays hosting HSFAP-beneficiary schools. - MAFI’s Educational Development Programs were expanded to include financial assistance for the masteral thesis and doctoral dissertation of teachers who are members of the IP community.
MAFI through its partner high schools, Association of Assisted Secondary Schools (ASSA), donated P100,000 for the victims of tsunami in Indonesia
Barangay Ilomavis, the host barangay of the Mt. Apo geothermal plant, was included in the MAFI Board of Trustees as permanent LGU-representative
- MAFI established links with the Yosemite National Park in California, USA for the study and development of a park management system to be instituted for Mt. Apo. - In 2007, the mayors of Kidapawan, Magpet and Makilala went on a learning visit to Yosemite Park as a sign of their commitment to sustainable park development and management.
Thirty (30) scholar-graduates were admitted as official members of MAFI.
MAFI’s Educational Development Program was expanded to cover technical-vocational scholarship grants in order to increase opportunities for high school students within the AOR
Implementation of the Maag Tinikaran Project (MTP), a five-hectare reforestation project that covered planting and maintenance of 12,500 Tinikaran trees (an endemic species) near the peak of Mt. Apo.