Last October 26, 2021, we conducted a home visit to the scholars in the IP Communities since face-to-face is not yet allowed by the government. As we interview them, most of them cannot remember the name of the school they are enrolled in because it’s been 2 years since they went to the school. Their parents are the ones who …
GOTOshool Fundraising Program The BCFI Scholarship Program is the response to the call of St. Magdalene of Canossa to make Jesus known so that he may be loved. This means for us to empower the underprivileged but deserving students to uplift them from where they are. This is to provide the necessary resources to pursue higher learning. It is said …
In the Philippines, IPs have been subject to historical discrimination and marginalization from political processes and economic benefit. They often face exclusion, loss of ancestral lands, displacement, pressures to and destruction of traditional ways of life and practices, and loss of identity and culture. Most of the IPs was unable to go to school and grew up with no formal …
The Bakhita Canossa Foundation -Philanthropic Development Office (BCFI -PDO) Advocacy on Youth Development (Scholarship Program) wants to increase the opportunities of a better life with empowered and nurtured children and youth through proper and quality education. The youth who are the backbone of the nation, the now of the nation, and the future pillars of the country (comprising 30M in …
In one of our poverty-stricken mission areas of the San Pablo Apostol Parish called “Happyland,” we have known about 50 children ages 6 to 12 years old swimming almost every day collecting plastic waste on the polluted and dirty waters of Manila Bay port-area just to earn a meager amount of PHP 30.00 to provide for their families. At most, …
School opening will not necessarily mean traditional face-to-face learning in the classroom. The physical opening will depend on the risk severity grading or classification of a certain community pursuant to guidelines from the Department of Health (DOH), the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Philippines, and the Office of the President (OP). The …
