Co-Founder's Message

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 atwww.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…

Measuring Our Progress

We work with underfunded schools in island provinces such as those in the island of Hilantagaan by providing them enough books to form their libraries or urban schools such as the Vicente Lim Aguinaldo Elementary School in Manila.

We work in Manila's slums to understand their needs and provide support in areas they need the most help.

We formed partnerships with organizations such as U Events! to provide fun events for the children in orphanages, hospitals and schools. Events that provide a day of creative learning.

We support our partner, Project Pearls, in their mission to help the families in the slums in Ulingan, Tondo. We have provided children's reading books to start a library for their children's after school room.

	Our Book Program Successfully collected over 3,000 pounds of children’s books from schools and individuals. These books have been distributed to several elementary schools in remote provinces in the Philippines through our partners the Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation who promote the love of reading in local public schools.
	We have partnered with a new elementary school run by the Emilio Aguinaldo College, who provide several disadvantaged children a subsidized education. Our donations of potentially discarded California grade school textbooks have now found a home in their school curriculum.
	We partner with orphanages and homes such as the CRIBS Foundation and Preda Foundations Childhood for Children Home for Girls who both provide care for abused children. Our partners are carefully screened to ensure quality programs are in place to provide the best care for these girls.
	Over 30,000 pounds of food, clothing, school supplies, vitamins and toiletries have been shipped to our supported organizations. Your donations have helped feed and clothe these girls kept safe from harm in these orphanages and homes. It doesn’t take much to make a big difference.
	We developed a partnership with the Emilio Aguinaldo College to make educational grants available to girls who are victims of abuse, abandonment or trafficking. Through their Yaman Lahi Foundation and their 50% grant match we can provide superior education in professional careers for girls who would never have these opportunities.

Testimonials

CRF provides donors with photos and videos of how your donations make a difference in the lives of the girls they support. We believe in the importance of providing our donors this feedback -seeing the power of their contributions at work.

An elementary school teacher at Cambaog Elementary School, Philippines wrote this note after receiving our shipment of over 1000 books in cooperation with the Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation:

A blessed day and advance Merry Christmas. In behalf of 603 elementary pupils and 92 pre-school children, 17 teachers and 1 principal from Cambaog Elementary School, Cambaog, Bustos, Bulacan-Philippines we would like to extend our warmest thanks to your foundation. Our school have received 1,157 books, puzzles, crayons, story books with tapes. Our school children are truly blest upon receiving the said items. Each rooms were given enough numbers of books to be read during free times so it can help the children to read fast using those colorful books.

Upon receiving 4 boxes of unknown materials inside. We did not think that inside it was books that can really be used by our school children.I was amazed with the books I’ve seen same with my principal. Children were also happy seeing the books. They are so excited reading it. We would like to thank “Michael Smith” whom whole-heartedly gave his books to children who are in need. He was so famous in the school because most of the books has his name on it.

To Corazon Foundation from California USA. We know that they’ve tried so hard to find this books and be given to the needy ones. More power to your foundation, hoping that you will be more blessed so you could share books again for Filipino children. Our prayers are with you. God Bless!!!!

And most of all to Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation who truly a partner in developing “love of books” for elementary school children. The books were truly an advance Christmas gift to our school children…May God continue to bless each one of you….

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