A Hope Summit of Yellow Boat volunteers begins today – the first time “Hope paddlers” for Filipino schoolchildren from all over the Philippines and the United States will gather in one place. The Hope paddlers are volunteers who build school boats to ferry children who previously had to swim to school in remote communities in […]
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Vincent Durie’s “Boat of Knowledge” ferries Tausug-Spartan students to schools with Ayala Foundation’s help
Whenever we see children who are not doing very well in their studies, we sometimes automatically think it’s their fault—poor study habits, lack of interest in school, laziness. But often, we fail to see other serious factors that could affect a child’s school performance. In the case of the children of barangay Darul-Akram in Languyan, […]
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