Bless Riverside

Every year, many students from indigenous families consider dropping out of school because of extreme poverty. By sponsoring their basic school supplies, we can encourage them to continue their education and give hope to their community.

Now on our 5th year, we are raising funds to sponsor 700 Basic School Supplies Kits for public school children who belong to the "Bukidnon Babaylanis Tribe" in Negros Occidental. Distribution is done thru Riverside Elementary School and Aguntilang Elementary School, in partnership with the tribe's local chieftain.

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It's almost Christmas time! Our ground volunteers are busy weighing rice, sorting cans of sardines and packs of instant noodles at Riverside Elementary School. They can't wait to distribute these gift packs to almost 700 indigenous families in Brgy. Riverside on Christmas day.

THANK YOU donors for your generosity! God will surely bless you back a thousandfold more 🙏🏻

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." (James 1:17)

Lord, You are our Great Provider.🥹

God reminds us not to rely on our own strength and capability but His alone.

As of TODAY, we have raised enough funds to prepare 700 GIFT PACKS each containing 4kg rice, 4 packs of noodles, and 3 cans of sardines! Praying our goods will be completed in time so our volunteers can start packing them.

With the help of Chieftain Hildyn and his team of volunteers, these gift packs will be distributed to 689 registered indigenous families in Brgy. Riverside. Additional gift packs are for the teachers of Riverside Elementary School.

Praise God for His blessings! Thank you to friends and family who continue to trust and give 🙏

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." (James 1:17 NIV)

This Christmas, we go back to the most basic way of blessing the 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 (𝗜𝗣) 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗿𝗴𝘆. 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 in Negros Occidental — by giving them 𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗘.

While it seems ironic that their land is known for sugarcane and rice, not all the IPs have a plot of land to grow their own rice. Most families eat root crops to get by. Rice is a luxury for the poorest of the poor.

With 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼 damaging their homes and crops and even some farm animals lost to the floods, many families never got the chance to recover. And in less than a month after this disaster, 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗮 brought heavy rains as if adding insult to injury.

We are raising funds to provide 𝟲𝟴𝟵 𝗜𝗣 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝘀 with at least 4kg of rice per family. These will be distributed thru our ground partner Chieftain Hildyn of the Brgy Riverside Association of Babaylanis Bukidnon (BRABB). We have been working closely with them for the past 3 years, since Typhoon Odette when so many became homeless overnight.

The Babaylanis Bukidnon tribe is the native group of lumads/IPs in Brgy. Riverside, Negros Occidental. This remote community of lumads is hardly reached by aid that is why we have been directing our efforts to raise awareness for them and to bless them whenever we can.

Will you help us reach our target of P156,800 to buy rice for the IPs? Together, we can Bless Riverside!

P.S. We hope we can exceed this target by at least P50,000 to add 2 cans of sardines and 2 packs of instant noodles with every bag of rice.

Please PM me for bank details. THANK YOU!

Malapit na!

Thank you Lord for your faithfulness to the children of Riverside 🙏🏻

Our beneficiaries are public elementary school students of Aguintilang Elementary School and Riverside Elementary School, Negros Occidental.

Maraming salamat sa ating SK volunteer na tumulong mag pick up ng mga tsinelas para sa ating School Supplies distribution sa pasukan!

Ang bawat school supplies kit na ipamimigay sa mga mag-aaral ng Riverside Elementary School at Aguintilang Elementary School ay may kasamang bagong tsinelas! Ang lahat ng ito ay mula sa donasyon ng iba't ibang tao sa Manila at ibang bansa.

Each one of us can become a blessing if we allow God to use us for His glory 🙏🏻

School reopens on June 16, 2025 and we are getting ready to help bring back the Riverside students to school!

Hindi dapat maging hadlang ang kawalan ng school supplies para ipagpatuloy ang kanilang pag-aaral. Mahalaga ang edukasyon para sa ating kinabukasan — hindi lang para sa mga bata kundi pati rin sa ikauunlad ng bayan.

Please support our advocacy! You can make a difference with every donation for our SCHOOL SUPPLIES fund drive. Send us a message for details 🙏