HOPE International Development Agency is helping young men and women from underprivileged Indigenous People’s tribes all over the Philippines with educational grants to attend the Pamulaan Center for Indigenous People’s Education at the University of Southeastern Philippines.

This school is the first of its kind, with curriculum designed to create graduates that will return to their villages, equipped with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead their people out of poverty and powerlessness.

Your support will allow a dying people to become self-reliant.

For $85 per month, you will allow an IP scholar to attend university. This young man or woman will be the first among his or her tribe to receive a college-level education. With a strong commitment to return and serve their own communities, these scholars are equipped to find solutions for the problems that threaten to destroy their people.

By supporting an IP scholar, you not only transform a talented young man or woman’s life, but you make an incredibly effective investment into entire IP communities—all of which are despairing, and some of which are on the verge of extinction. Your support is a promise to the Philippines’ Indigenous Peoples that the future is theirs to share with you and your children.

Your giving provides:

• Tuition fees, school books and supplies
• Training in practical skills such as sustainable agriculture techniques and community organization and education
• Education specifically designed to allow your student to become a teacher, community leader, and/or development worker
• Formal skills training for rural teachers on how to educate children, with a focus on relevant curriculum for indigenous children
• Your student’s opportunity to help his or her community move towards self-reliance and freedom from extreme poverty
  

Send students to college today.

For further information please contact Leanne VanderKwaak by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or by telephone at 604-525-5481 (or Toll-Free at 1 866 525 4673) at extension 14.

Photo courtesy of Kevin Dunn