Poverty and hunger remain a perennial problem in the Philippines with around 31% of its children live below poverty threshold. There can be no other place that best describe such conditions but the slum of Tondo, Manila. The FEEDUCATE Project aims to provide nutritious meals and monthly educational support to at least 50-100 children of Tondo, Manila. It also aims to help local organization institute a community-based health and sanitation program and the rehabilitation of community library.
The Tondo is the largest slum of the country's capital. It has a high poverty incidence due to lack of regular and decent jobs while social services like health and education are inaccessible. Many of the residents depend on scavenging and working at the nearby seaport where they earn very meager income. With this, a great number children are living in chronic hunger and destitution. Many children have stopped schooling and engaged in child labor and other risky trades in order to survive.
Salinlahi initiates the FEEDUCATE Project that aims to contribute in cushioning the impact of poverty to children by responding to their basic needs through feeding programs and educational support for 50-100 selected children beneficiaries. Aside from addressing the malnutrition and low school participation, It will mitigate the risks of children getting engaged to child labor, prostitution and other forms of exploitation that are mainly rooted from poverty
The FEEDUCATE Project helps in the holistic development of children - cognitive, social, emotional and physical. Numerous studies suggest that improving the health and nutrition of children can improve their subsequent chances of attending school, the gender equity of education access, and performance of children once at school. Children beneficiaries can finish their education and have higher economic opportunities in order to stop the cycle of poverty among their families.
