Humanitarian & Development
- Location:
Lobogon (Philippines) - Sponsor:
Thierry Vandevelde - Grant:
11,550 € from the Selection Committee on 28/03/2024
Project leader
The NGO Espoir School of Life offers free education to underprivileged children in the Philippines. It runs a number of schools catering for children from kindergarten to the end of elementary school, with the aim of gradually extending education up to the equivalent of A-levels.
All students are provided with free meals on school days, and Espoir School of Life also invests in projects that will give neighboring communities a better future.
2 technical water projects
Espoir School of Life runs several schools, with around a hundred students on its main campus in Lobogon, in the south-east of the country. Among the projects it is carrying out to improve the premises, a drinking water treatment system is to be installed to restore a right to an essential service compromised after the passage of typhoon Odette at the end of 2021.
Technical support is also required to solve the problem of stormwater drainage, which currently floods the school's playgrounds.
3 teaching-related projects
Espoir School of Life is also trying to reach out to communities that have no access to education. It has equipped itself with sewing machines to run a sewing workshop.
To raise awareness of the need to protect the oceans, a storybook is being planned for distribution to some twenty schools on the island of Siargao.
Finally, to anticipate the inevitable natural disasters to which the region is regularly subjected, prevention kits are planned for distribution to pupils.