was fully registered with the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) as a non-stock non-profit corporation in July 2015. Our mission is the help the very poor in The Philippines by providing them basic needs, including shelter, nutrition, education and medicine etc. Our first projects mostly concentrated on building simple houses for those who were made homeless as a result of the typhoon, and also fo
r those who were crammed into shacks throughout the Island of Leyte. As of January 2016 we have built a total of 167 simple houses with limited funding. We also set up kitchens for evacuees here in Maasin City. We supplied school supplies and clothing at different locations. During our projects, I could not help to notice the malnutrition amongst many of the children. May were severely underweight and were stunted due to the fact that were only eating rice. This of course leads to high child mortality, especially in the under fives. After doing extensive research in July & August 2016 we put a plan in place to starting a proper fulltime feeding program here in Maasin, using fortified food. Our MannaPack food comes from FMSC through RSM. We pay our share for the shipping and the customs from the US to Manila. We then have our shippers collect it in Manila and bring to Ormoc. I collect the food in Ormoc and bring it here to Maasin. We started the program on the 28th of August in the local dumpsite in Barangay Combado, and then extended it across the barangay. We have a total of 68 children on the program, and rising. Combado is a large inner city barangay which extend out to the dumpsite. It is by-and-far a very poor barangay with mostly slum housing. We expect this project to run for at least one year. We intend to cover some other barangays in the coming months, and eventually cover all 70 barangays in Maasin. On the third week of January 2016 we travelled some ten hours to Catarman, Northern Samar. We went to one of the poorest places in The Philippines. We selected 10 families and bought them building materials to rebuild their homes. Each family got 70 planks of lumber, 14 sheets of galvanized roof sheeting, 16' of roof capping and 5 KG of various nails. We spent three days there selecting the families, buying the materials and distributing. The materials had to be carried by hand for the last 1.5KM. Unfortunately we did not have enough funding to help the many hundreds of other families nearby who were made homeless from typhoon Nona
On February 2, 2016 we are launching a feeding station for children in Barangay Dongon, Maasin City. We will cook a full hearty meal for 20-25 malnourished children, which will include fortified rice daily for a period of at least 6 months. Our funding comes from friends, family and other small groups/partners in Germany, Ireland and around the world. We have 20 part time volunteers. All our board of trustees/directors are volunteers and nobody gets a salary. Our only administration is our yearly audit of a few hundred euro.
