Our current goal is to raise $15,000 CAD to send 100 kids from the Umapad Garbage Dump in Cebu, Philippines to school for an entire year. By donating what you’d spend on coffee each day, you can help scavengers become students. 100 PER CENT of your donation goes straight to these kids. 

Though tuition is technically free in the Philippines, schools still charge families extra costs to attend class.

It is similar to the primary education system in North America. Families must pay for the child’s uniform, school maintenance costs, supplies, and other education-related fees.

$70: The cost for a child to attend elementary school for a year, including uniform, supplies, and school fees. 

$115: The cost for a child to go to high school for a year, including uniform, supplies, and school fees. 

$42: A living subsidy for a child’s family, so they can sustain their basic needs while making the sacrifice of sending their child to school, instead of the dumpsite to work. 

$15: the price of a school uniform

$5: Enough to pay for a child’s notebook and pencils.

Including a living subsidy for each child’s family, the cost to send a child to school for an entire year is just $112 -$160.

Those numbers may not seem devastating at first glance, but when each person makes about a dollar a day, those education costs are impossibly high. That’s where you can help! You can change the world with just a few dollars.

100 PER CENT of your donation today goes straight to the scholarship program with our partner JPIC-IDC.

Please donate today. Any amount goes a long way for these children. And if you can’t spare the change, SPREAD THE WORD! Tweet, Facebook, Email. . . whatever it takes to do your part. It will mean the world to children in the Philippines. Just ask Mary-Grace.

 Every dollar, and every child counts.