The school bags on sale in Northern Ireland are changing lives thousands of miles away in the Philippines
For over a decade, the Belfast charity Ten Foundations has been changing lives in the Philippines thanks to a simple school bag.
After visiting the Philippines and witnessing first-hand the extreme poverty there – particularly amongst women and children – Ian decided to do something to help. With this knowledge, they are then able to work and provide for their families in a sustainable manner. Each woman in Ten Foundations is given the tools to help lift herself and her family out of the cycle of poverty, effectively helping to break it.
In addition to the mums being able to send their children to school, a number of older Filipino children are funded through university with some returning with teaching, business, social work or engineering degrees and using these skills to continue the charity's work on the ground. Unwilling to give up, they decided to rent a building instead. After a quiz night in Belfast, Ian sent £1,500 raised to Manila and within two weeks they had their first child in the orphanage.
"We expanded things over lockdown and got some grants from the LFT Family Trust in Belfast. This included £20,000 which allowed us to buy 10 new sewing machines and recruit 10 new ladies.""Some of the mothers still live in pretty grim conditions so we've put a deposit on some land and we're going to build between 40 and 50 houses on that site for them," Ian said.
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