SIBOL SCHOOL, Philippines

Name: SCHOOL FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN FROM SLUMS
Location: Pacific Islands / PHILIPPINES / BARANGAY TAMBULILID / ORMOC CITY

   

Project Area Background:

In 1991, a flash flood devastated the city of Ormoc, killing thousands of people and leaving even more stranded without homes, clothing, food, or medical support. Unfortunately, only the the organized communities and residents benefited from the international humanitarian aid relief goods international humanitarian aid.

Many children were abandoned, and families left homeless and impoverished. Without financial resources or access to humanitarian aid they became "land squatters“, building their homes on the city’s low lands. This became a serious problem because their homes were continually flooded by high waters. These families then either left or were forced to evacute their homes, leaving all their hard earned worldly possessions behind. For over a decade since the flood, these land squatters still have no safe or decent place to call 'HOME‘.

Project Description:

Provide the abandoned children and their families with decent housing, access to a primary education, nutritional and medical support they need to dramatically improve their current standard of living.

Project Goals:

The project's goals is to construct safe and adequate housing and provide access to a 2-classroom primary school equipped with bathrooms. It is to also provide after school programs and 2 pre-school sessions daily to reduce the student-to-teacher ratio and increase student learning.

Project Beneficiaries:

• 68 families, including 106 children (aged 3-14 and up)

One-time Expenses:

• $6,000 for the School cost

Ongoing Expenses:

• $3,000 per year

Project NGO Partners:

• Gawad Kalinga (GK)