Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Filipinos Abroad Helping Filipinos at Home
Category: Diaspora Donors
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Filipino Workers in the Diaspora Broke? Think Again! Many Have Money To Spend, Untapped Market as Donors and Consumers
My stereotype of overseas Filipino workers are shattered. The Filipino workers in the diaspora workers are not broke. They have expendable income to spend on weekend trips and souvenirs. These Filipino caregivers are untapped market as consumers. More importantly, they have expendable income to give as potential donors for development projects in the Philippines.
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Dora’s Sacrifice To Keep Sending Money Back Home
Dora, a caregiver in Israel, had to make extreme, personal sacrifices of working without a day off for 7 Months in order to keep sending money back home but at extreme, social costs.
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Filipino Diaspora Sent Record Amount of Remittances Saving The Philippines From Deep Recession
An economic miracle happened in the Philippines but this time hardly anyone noticed it. Millions of Filipinos abroad keep sending record number of remittances back to the Philippines despite the worldwide economic recession. In March 2010 alone, the Filipino diaspora sent $1.55 billion US back home. This massive injection of remittances were mostly used for…
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Another Aquino is President of the Philippines – NOW WHAT? Real Change only happens with grassroots community leadership and involvement
In June 2010, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is poised to become the next president of the Philippines. Many Filipinos at home and abroad are rejoicing after a relatively bloodless election and many are pinning their hopes on Noynoy to ‘save’ the Philippines. SO NOW WHAT? The next Philippine president is starting out with such a…
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What I did with $100 US dollars from my tax refund
What did I do with $100 US dollars from my tax refund? I recently completed my taxes for 2009. I was elated when I found out that I have a small refund coming my way and that I might have $100 US dollars to spare. So what would I do with an extra $100 bucks?…
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Tucuma Residents Live in Poverty and Hope – Rebuilding their lives one ditch at a Time
Last February 2010, my friend Benjie Velasco invited me to visit the other side of Paranaque, Metro Manila. We visited a squatter area, Tucuma that sits right in the middle of a leafy, middle class suburb. It was one of the emotional highlights of my trip as I learned about the struggles of the…
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10. Philippines’ GDP increased (yay!) and so does poverty (huh?) and Nine Other Interesting Facts
Last February 2010, I’ve met Jeremiah Opiniano, Executive Director of the Institute for Migration and Development Institute, a nonprofit think tank in the Philippines devoted to policy research, data banking and development journalism on Filipinos’ international migration and its development impact to the Philippines. Jeremiah was a virtually walking encyclopedia on the latest facts and…
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Filipino Medical Heroes – Saving One Patient At a Time
It was only 7:30 AM and hundreds of patients were already lining up to be seen at the surgical mission put together by the World Surgical Foundation in Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island, Philippines last February 2010. I had the privilege to join my first surgical mission and I saw with my own eyes the despair…
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Visiting the Water Well Project – Taking A Sip of Clean Water
I always take it for granted – water. I open my faucet and there it is. However, my whole perspective on water changed when on February 2010 I visited the water well project that the Rotary Club of Iligan South put together in partnership with the Rotary Club of Chicago Far North. The site of…
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Asian Americans Giving to Haiti – Charity Knows No Bounds
The recent devastating earthquake in Haiti moved many people to action and to give a helping hand. I was one of them. I was deeply moved by the tragedy that killed hundreds of thousands in Haiti. So I joined my friends from the Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation, a local group of Chinese Buddhists in the…