Welcome!
 
 The Corazon Roxas Foundation is a registered 501(c)3, non-sectarian, California-based non-profit organization dedicated in assisting, in the most direct way possible, organizations that provide education, housing or care for children in developing countries. The Foundation assists organizations that provide care to infants and young girls in shelters and orphanages in developing countries. We focus on girls as they face significant barriers be it cultural, ethnic or social.


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As a small organization, we are challenged with ensuring that each donation makes a substantial impact on the lives of the children we help. Our responsibility is to ensure that your donations have a maximum impact and that we partner to identify areas where we can truly make a difference.

We continue to be inspired by individuals who selflessly dedicate their lives to the care of infants and children in countries that struggle with tremendous poverty. Our programs and partnerships continue to grow to most effectively meet our mission.  100% of your donations go to help these children.

In January 2011 the CRF team made a visit to several of the organizations we support in the Philippines. Poverty continues to be appalling with slums sometimes hidden behind rows of Hollywood type facades built to resemble colorful stucco homes. Behind the fake walls are homes fashioned out of boxes, corrogated aluminium sheeting, discarded plywood, and bedsheets hung as makeshift doors and windows. Their shanties perched atop rivers of open sewage are the only home many of them know. The stories of the abandoned babies found crying on smoldering garbage, children trafficked, beaten and raped or sold by their parents as prostitutes continue. Our mission continues to support the real heroes who spend their lives defending those who have no voice. We are proof that through your help, a small organization can make a big difference.

Although we support a broad range of charitable efforts, our focus is on girls who have faced the most difficult of circumstances – girls who are victims of abuse, neglect, abandonment or trafficking – to provide them with exceptional opportunities for a bright future.

Our approach is twofold, first to ensure that these girls are cared for during their formative years through our Care packages and, secondly, to provide these girls, often dealing with issues of abandonment and neglect, the opportunity to be trained in professional careers. Empowering them and giving them the best chance for a better life.

We are privileged to partner with those who do so much for others. 

For those of you who support us, on behalf of the children, Thank you! For those who want to make a difference, we welcome your assistance.

Please consider us in your next United Way giving campaign. You can also make donations directly on this website or through Universal Giving at www.Universalgiving.org where you will find donations starting from only $10 for a bag of rice. We invite you to join us, one small step at a time…

 We thank all our supporters especially the local San Francisco Bay Area businesses that donate their services and products to help us continue our mission! A big thank you also to our volunteers who made the hard work of sorting, packing and pickups of donations possible. 

DID YOU KNOW: Your shipment of books have been distributed to over 1000 children in small rural schools throughout the country.

SPOTLIGHT: Making A Difference

Site Visit 2011

Toddler at CRIBS Foundation
 
 Our first site visit was to the CRIBS Foundation in Marikina, Manila to meet the dedicated individuals whose lives focus on the care of girl’s who have been abandoned or abused and the infants and toddlers awaiting new homes.
 
We had a chance to get to know the girls who were in the school there, ages 7 to 16, during our Q&A . During these lively discussions they enjoyed the chance to practice their English and had many questions for members of our group. 
 In addition, our educational grant recipient came by to share her experiences of her first year at college and how it has changed her life.  
 
On our visit to the Emilio Aguinaldo Elementary school we were greeted with “Good Morning Visitors” by the  children in each classroom. What was most special was that each teacher and student had the California textbooks CRF had donated last year on their desks being used as part of their school curriculum. 
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As we proceeded to their school library, books on “Sealife in California”, “California Treasures” stood proudly on stand up frames on entrance. In the teacher’s library were wall to wall California Reading, Math and Science books. On the other end of the library there were the children’s reading books, all catalogued for student checkout. Educational recycling at it’s finest. Books destined for California landfills donated by California teachers and school districts keep on giving knowledge ten thousands miles away.

Our last visit was to the Preda Foundation a 4 hour drive through the lush countryside. There we met Father Shay Cullen, the tireless, Nobel nominated, dedicated Irish priest who has lived in the Philippines for many years. He described the challenges in his area – a ex American airforce base where prostitution once thrived has left a legacy of abandoned AmerAsian children. Now,street prostitution has been replaced by technology as Internet porn thrives bringing with it visitors from around the world seeking relations with children. His staff of paralegals continue to push the envelope to ensure that these pedophiles are brought to justice. Father Cullen personally works with the Philippine Justice Department on laws that protect Philippine children. Sadly, corruption and payoffs are familiar landscapes his courageous team face regularly. With his personal safety at risk, he continues to pursue legal action against the predators who threaten the safety of the children fortunate enough to seek shelter with his organization.
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Preda’s latest request was for shoes for the boys who play sports in flipflops. Our call was answered by Atlas Skateboards who quickly went to work with their generous vendors and friends to cull over 90 pairs of shoes, over 75% of them brand new. When the shoes arrived Father Cullen described how this donation was more than shoes but about giving a better self image and confidence to these children who have nothing. Thank you Atlas Skateboard for all your help with this!
Preda Kids with new shoe donation

Preda Kids with new shoe donation

 

 

 

 

 

 

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