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 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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     Through your generous sponsorship and a grant match from the EAC’s Yaman Lahi Foundation, two recipients have been selected for our first educational grant. These girls’ will have an opportunity to attend college at one of Manila’s most prestigious schools, the Emilio Aguinaldo College. Most importantly, this grant will give them a chance at a promising future. The recipients were carefully selected by our partners, the CRIBS Foundation and the EAC Admissions Office. Our girls are looking into careers as school teachers and lawyers. They have begun their first semester in June 2010. Your donations will substantially change their lives. As a young and smaller nonprofit, we strive to be as creative as we can to make every donation, however small, 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. 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. This year, our work is in the Philippines where our partner homes and orphanages provide care for children in the most dire circumstances. We are privileged to partner with those who do so much for others. 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…  |
SPOTLIGHT: Making A Difference A big thank you to our generous donors who have helped touch the lives of thousands of children and most especially to our volunteers who made the hard work of sorting, packing and pickups of donations possible. -         St. John Vianney Catholic School in San Jose and the Sunnyvale School District have donated over 1500 California textbooks which found a home at the Emilio Aguinaldo Elementary (EAE) school library in the Philippines. EAE is a private institution that provides quality education to disadvantaged children. In addition, First Republic Bank answered our request for school bags and your cash donations helped us assemble school supply kits which we presented to the students in a ceremony in December.  School Children with donated bags and school supplies -         Columbia Middle School and Stocklmeir Elementary School in Sunnyvale have helped us send our largest donation yet of over 2000 children’s reading books to our partners, Sa Aklat Sisikat (SAS), in the Philippines. SAS distributes reading books to schools in remote provinces with the goal of promoting a love of reading and learning. The responses from the children have been phenomenal. Children miles from the nearest town are reading Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, Goosebumps and Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Books that add richness to their lives in villages where English reading books are difficult to find. Our Book Program has sent over 10,000 childrens reading books to rural elementary schools  Teen Alliance Volunteers with CRF partnership sign  -         This year we are proud to support the organization of the Pushcart Educator, CNN Hero of the Year, Efren Penaflorida.  Efren Peñaflorida gives Filipino youth an alternative to gang membership through education. His Dynamic Teen Company’s 10,000 members have taught basic reading and writing to 1,500 kids living in the slums. Your shipment of books have been distributed to assist over 600 children.  Makati Home for Girls with donations - The Makati Home for Girls in the Philippines, one of our first supported organizations, received over 500 lbs of food, school supplies and reading books. |
