Kalinga Foundation - Children Education School Payatas Manila Volunteers Projects Support

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Projects

The most important Kalinga projects are the Papaya school and the Apple Project scholarships.

Papaya school

Papaya means free education for talented, very poor children of the Payatas garbage dump and the areas around it. This education is meant to offer children an opportunity to leave their life on the dump behind, and to develop according to their own abilities. Parents are also involved in the educational programme.

At the nearest school for the Payatas children, teachers, learning materials, exercise books as well as classrooms are in short supply. That’s why teaching is done in ‘shifts’; the children attend school three days a week, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Moreover, the teacher sometimes has up to 120 pupils in a classroom and children have to share an exercise book. The consequence of all these factors is that the children have a very low level of education that does not offer any prospect for a brighter future. This being the background, Kalinga opened the Papaya School in 2003, offering high quality eduation to groups of maximal 30 children per class.

On the first floor Papaya has a community hall. All kinds of things are organised here, not only for the children but also for their parents, other family members and people from the neighbourhood. Activities in the field of education like (everyday practice classes), information (like hygiene and the importance of breast-feeding) but also entertainment (singing, dance, theatre, handicraft sessions for disabled people, etc).

In short, we want the Papaya school to be multifunctional and that a lot of people can make use of it.

Apple project; scholarships

The Kalinga Foundation started in the spring of 2001 with a small-scale scholarship programme. With this programme we support ten children at the moment: they would like to learn things and go to school but because of their parents’ poverty there’s no possibility for them to do so, or finish their schooling. Right now, one of our scholarship students works as an educational assistant at the Papaya school.

The Piña Livelihood Cooperative

The Piña Livelihood Cooperative is a vibrant project, put up by ladies from the Payatas dumpsite who decided to take ownership of their ideas and talents. Some of them had skills in weaving, making paper products, sewing etc, by organising and sharing their capabilities they provided incomes for their families. This project is called Piña, as a Pineapple is easy to eat and then by replanting the top it will grow again. This is a form of recycling and as most Piña products are made from recycled materials this is a fitting name.

Finished projects

Kalinga is very proud of the projects in which the foundation is participating, and of those that have successfully been finished. Examples are the Papa John Center and the Our Lady of Sorrows programme.

The Papa John Center was the first project that the Kalinga Foundation supported. It is situated in Quezon City, Manila. This place offers a home for boys who cannot live at home or who do not see their parents any more. Besides housing, food, clothes and education it also means that these children are given loving care that they dearly lack in the streets. The help given by Kalinga mainly consisted of improving the building and providing good facilities. Early 2002 the management of the Papa John Center indicated that they were independent. A great result!

Our Lady of Sorrows Outreach Foundation (OLSOFI) is situated in Pasay, a quarter in Manila. This foundation is predominantly concerned with improving the living conditions of the people here in various ways. Not only is education offered to children, but their parents are also advised or offered classes. The Kalinga contribution, among other things, was aimed at paying for surgery for the children and scholarships.

Stichting Kalinga - Abstederdijk 28N 3582 BM Utrecht - +31 (0)6-16356365
ABN amro Utrecht 56.76.83.214 - K.v.K. nummer 30164103
info@Kalinga.nl

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