Dear Give Children Hope sponsors and friends, We hope you had a fun Halloween celebration. Kids in the Philippines also go trick or treating minus the pumpkin carving. The students also had their weeklong semestral break. For this month's feature, meet Angelo Sistoso, a 6th grader from Dugcal Elementary School. His mom is a housewife and [...]
Dear Give Children Hope sponsors and friends, We hope you are doing well. The past month has been very successful as we are able to be a blessing to a young boy from Sua Elementary School. Give Children Hope started a fundraising to help Samuel Silerio. The 11-year-old boy is diagnosed with Nasoethmoidal encephalocele at birth [...]
Dear Give Children Hope sponsors and friends, This month may have welcomed us with heavy rains but we are still very excited as we near the end of this year. We feel nothing but blessed from all of your generosity. We look forward to the many more years of you being part of each of the [...]
Thank you so much Ma'am Heather Mc Omber for the early christmas gifts to our young learners.
November 7th, the Phillippines was hit by a huge storm, Typhoon Haiyan, with winds reaching as high as 115 mph. It is reported that approximately 10,000 lives were taken tragically, and many more people affected. Our thoughts and prayers go out to our filipino friends and the children of both the Maravilla and Sua Elementary Schools. [...]
We really need more books to send to Sua Elementary and Maravilla Elementary Schools. If you have any great ideas how to collect more books or want to help us collect more let me know. The children really love to read and this book project is a big success in the Philippines.
This is Nanette Demesa a mother of 7 children, and a housewife. She is one of the mothers who we can always count on to help with the Meals @ School Program of Give Children Hope. While waiting for the break time of the students to have their meals, I was able to talk to her. [...]
Many thanks to Cody Leishman & Katie Henderson at Sundesa LLC for their generous donation to Give Children Hope of thousands of Blender Bottles that we boxed and sent to the Philippines! Maravilla Elementary School in Ilolo & Sua Elementary School in Camarines Sur will soon be receiving this great product! Also, thanks to our good [...]
We believe that healthy students are happier and will learn more in the long run. That is our goal... to feed children so that their main concern is their studies and not their hunger. We are pleased to see the positive changes that are taking place in our students lives.
These are two pictures sent to us by our Filipino representatives. It shows the humble circumstances that many of our students are living in. It is easy to see why these children yearn for a better opportunity at life.
