Inclusive Education
Indigenous Youth Leaders
Empowered Communities
How can you help?
For 100 USD a month you can:
Provide Learning on the Margins
Basic education led by native teachers for 20-50 children in far away areas where children struggle to access schools.
Empower 'Amaintul' Mentors
Support 3 indigenous university students in mentoring more than young children through grades 1-6, in their own communities, on their own terms.
Fight to End Bullying
Work to end discrimination in classrooms, by training communities, teachers and students in anti-bullying measures.
Who We Are - What We Do
As deeply rooted natives of Tawi-Tawi, we run an independent, secular, non-profit education NGO for the most vulnerable youth in the country - our indigenous children.
With national, international and state-partners, we set ourselves apart by providing steady, weekly programmes for an indigenous community that suffers from more than a 90% dropout rate for students. Especially the Sama Bajau/Dilaut struggle with a system that was not built for them.
Our team is a diverse mix of international donors, university students and graduate volunteers, and dedicated teachers plucked from the communities they are made to serve.
By working together, we believe that we can once and for all put an end to the unjust exclusion of indigenous people in our education system, and enable them to chart a better, more informed future for themselves.
indigenous children in the autonumous region of Mindanao have no access to basic education.
- UNICEF
With your support, we can bring that number down together!
45.000
Indigenous Children in Mindanao
Less than half of indigenous children have access to basic education in the Bangsamoro autonomous region of Mindanao, alone.
Among those lucky enough to enroll, just 1 out of 10 will graduate from elementary education due to bullying, alienation and poverty.
Without education, these children are often pushed into the streets —begging, working for meager wages and missing out on their childhood.