Bayanihan Foundation Worldwide
Filipinos Abroad Helping Filipinos at Home
Category: Diaspora Donors
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The Gift of Clean Water – Iligan City, Mindanao Island, Philippines
I’m happy to share that the local Rotary club that I belong, the Rotary Club of Chicago Far North recently donated funds to build a new water well outside Iligan City in Mindanao Island, Philippines. My Uncle Vic and his local Rotary club in Iligan City had been instrumental in making this partnership project happen…
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Supporting social entrepreneurs
Late August 2009, Mr. Sonesh Shah, one of the founders of Ekya, invited me to a late summer picnic in Skokie, IL with some of the group’s supporters and friends. I enjoyed watching people play volleyball, enjoyed Indian sweets and talked about innovative projects in India and other countries to alleviate poverty including the idea…
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Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! I will be writing about 99 personal stories of the growing philanthropy of diaspora donors in the US and around the world to their homeland countries and how they are making a difference. Diaspora Donors: A Definition Diaspora donors? Who are they anyway? The term diaspora refers to a population that…