Bagong Silangan Elementary School (BSE) is one of the biggest schools in Payatas, a known dumpsite area in the Philippines. Due to poverty in the community, children are often left to scavenge in the trash instead of going to school. The Principal and teachers of BSE work hard to keep the parents engaged and encouraged to pursue education for their children. They would invite the parents to quarterly meetings and training, but often, only a few parents would attend.
For the Children’s Month celebration, they invited our implementing team in the Philippines, Honor 1000, to give a talk about online safety to the parents. More than 1,000 parents attended! The parents stayed for the whole talk even when there were no more seats for them, and they had to stand up the whole time.
After the seminar, the Principal and teachers shared that they hadn’t seen such attendance as well as attentiveness from the parents. This helped them realize that guiding children in their use of gadgets and the internet is such a relevant topic. They invited us again to train their teachers so they can reach more parents with our online safety awareness campaign.
2024 will see Captivating fund education and awareness programs reaching 30,000 women and students in locations considered significantly at risk of cybersex crime and human trafficking.
Our Partners
Lolita smiles brightly as she shows us her stock of clothes to sell. She is one of the members of our microfinance program in the Philippines.
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When we first met Jemhaima and her mother, they were loitering on the streets, begging and scavenging for food from garbage cans.
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In our commitment to extend our online awareness campaign to the Visayas region, we established a strong partnership with the Philippine National Police (PNP).
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March 8, 2024, is an eventful day for us and our Manila team as we celebrate 20 new signups to our Honor 1000 Microfinance Program!
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In light of the rising incidence of human trafficking and cybersex crimes in the Philippines, our implementing team — Honor 1000 — continues to run Cybersex and Trafficking Awareness programs throughout the country.
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We continue to empower more women through our microfinance program in the Philippines. We opened a new microfinance group in Bayan-Bayanan, one of the barangays in Dinalupihan, Bataan.
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