These needs exist now. Help us act.

School Aid works directly with communities in Morocco and the Philippines. Choose a programme below to see the need, what your donation will fund and how we will report its use.

Morocco

After the earthquake, families still need help.

The earthquake deepened hardship in the High Atlas Mountain villages we visit. Children still need resources to learn.

Women with limited access to formal education need practical opportunities to earn and support their families.

Starting in Ijoukak, we are raising funds for children’s digital learning and women’s literacy and livelihood education, including beekeeping.

See the Morocco programme
Philippines

When rice harvests suffer, food and family incomes are at risk.

Dry spells and heavy rainfall threaten rice harvests and farming livelihoods in Iloilo, where malnutrition remains a serious concern.

Women farmers need practical skills to adapt and support their families. Their children need better access to learning.

Starting in Cabalabaguan, Mina, we are raising funds for women farmers’ education in climate adaptation, soil care and water conservation, alongside digital learning equipment for children.

See the Philippines programme

See what your support makes possible.

Each country page sets out its first-location target, full-programme budget and reporting commitments. We will report funds received, actual fees, spending and delivery.

Our original field record

What we have done, and what comes next.

These are accounts by the people who visited, with photographs, dates and locations. Completed deliveries and plans are identified separately.

Morocco · November 2024 and January 2025

School materials delivered

David and Maribeth de Montaigne delivered pens, paper, pencil cases and school bags directly to children and in bulk through families and local representatives. The field archive identifies Amizmiz, Anougal, Assif El Mal, Azgour and Ijoukak.

November delivery record →
January return visit →

Morocco · March–April 2024

The personal journey that began it

Children asking for pens prompted the first purchases and distributions of learning materials. This journey preceded School Aid MTÜ’s registration on 14 October 2024; it is our origin story, not activity by an already registered charity.

Read the origin story →

Philippines · Assessment in August 2026

Preparing the first delivery in Mina

Maribeth visited schools and met local representatives in Iloilo. The current plan starts in Cabalabaguan: six laptops, solar backup, school materials and onsite training, with separate women’s courses at Mina TESDA Center. Five barangays form the wider phased programme. Delivery depends on funding and practical arrangements; it has not yet happened.

Read the school-visit record →

Our existing field stories document visits and materials, not audited beneficiary totals or completed solar installations. We will report programme spending, delivery and training activities as the funded programmes proceed. Reports and financial records →

Bayanihan — an oil painting of a whole Filipino village lifting a neighbour's house and carrying it together
Our Philippines programme

Bayanihan

The Bayanihan Programme · Iloilo, Philippines

bayanihan — the whole village, lifting one another

When rice harvests suffer, food and family incomes are at risk. Dry spells and heavy rainfall threaten farming livelihoods in Iloilo, where malnutrition remains a serious concern.

Women farmers need practical skills to adapt and support their families. Their children need better access to learning.

Starting in Cabalabaguan, help fund women farmers’ education in climate adaptation, soil care and water conservation, alongside digital learning for children.

Children stand in a mountain village in the High Atlas Mountains amid earthquake-damaged stone houses under a deep blue sky
Our Morocco programme

Twiza ⵜⵉⵡⵉⵣⵉ

The Twiza Programme · High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

twiza — the Amazigh word for the same truth: neighbours carrying one load

Years after the earthquake, the need for help remains. In the remote communities of the High Atlas Mountains we visit, families are still living with its consequences. Children need adequate learning resources.

Women with limited access to formal education need practical opportunities to earn and support their families.

Starting in Ijoukak, help fund children’s digital learning and women’s literacy and practical livelihood education, including beekeeping.

High Atlas Mountains, Morocco — School Aid field mission, 2024
Why we exist

The money rebuilds the school. It rarely refills the classroom.

After the 2023 Al Haouz earthquake, we drove into Morocco's High Atlas Mountains and delivered school equipment, village by village, across three missions between March 2024 and January 2025. We saw the pattern up close: reconstruction programmes fund walls and roofs — while children sit in rebuilt shells without desks, books, computers or power.

School Aid exists for that gap. Today we deliver what a child needs to sit down and learn — materials, handed over by our own team. Next comes the rest of the working classroom: refurbished laptops and monitors, backup batteries and solar panels to run them, and an appropriate, lawfully available internet connection where local infrastructure and funding permit.

See how a mission works
Five smiling boys give a thumbs-up beside Barclay, the School Aid mascot dog, high in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains
Thumbs up for delivery day, with mascot Barclay — High Atlas Mountains, 2024.
Materials now; classroom equipment next

Three things turn a rebuilt shell into a working classroom.

School equipment

Our completed Morocco deliveries include pens, paper, pencil cases and school bags. Desks, chairs and boards can form part of future support where a school’s needs, funding and delivery arrangements are confirmed.

Refurbished IT

Our next stage. Laptops, monitors and tablets, professionally refurbished and delivered with training. We source in-country. Companies in the Philippines and Morocco: your retired fleet has a second life a short drive from your office — subject to confirmed needs, suitability and agreed local collection arrangements.

Power and connection

Our next stage. Solar panels and backup batteries so lights, computers and lessons keep running, and an appropriate, lawfully available internet connection where local infrastructure and funding permit.

A School Aid learning kit is handed directly to a child during a community distribution in the High Atlas Mountains
On the ground

We hand it over ourselves.

Our field accounts show two delivery routes: materials handed directly to children, and bulk supplies entrusted to families and recognised local representatives for school use. Photographs and location details document these visits.

High Atlas Mountains, Morocco — January 2025
Where we work

Two countries. One repeatable model.

Every country programme passes a Board-adopted cultural and compliance review before a single item ships. We work with local partners, in local languages, on the basis of need alone.

Bayanihan — an oil painting of the Filipino spirit of a whole village moving together
Bayanihan · Iloilo, Philippines

Cabalabaguan first; five barangays in phases

Starting in Cabalabaguan: six laptops, solar backup, school materials and onsite training, plus practical education for fifty women farmers at Mina TESDA Center. The wider programme covers five barangays in phases.

Boys in the High Atlas Mountains open new pencil cases, notebooks and watercolour sets from a School Aid delivery
Twiza ⵜⵉⵡⵉⵣⵉ · Morocco

Back to the High Atlas Mountains

Twiza means neighbours sharing the work. Our three visits to the High Atlas Mountains established the relationships behind practical school-material deliveries and the planned next stage of classroom equipment. Read the dated field accounts before deciding to give.

Proof, not promises

From our next delivery, every mission ends with a receipt you can read.

We are a small, volunteer-led team that delivers in person. That means you see exactly where your support goes: photographs, delivery records and a simple budget — published after every mission — starting with our next funded programme delivery — as a "where your money went" report.

School Aid MTÜ is a registered Estonian non-profit association. Our annual report is filed with the Estonian Business Register, our people are named and pictured, and our safeguarding and privacy policies are public.

Transparency & governance

Registered non-profitSchool Aid MTÜ · Estonian register code 80646408, Tallinn.

Annual report filedPublished accounts with the Estonian Business Register.

Named, pictured peopleEvery one of our people named, pictured and published with a full CV.

Child safeguardingDóchas-aligned image and consent standards on every mission.

Watch

Where this started.

How School Aid began, part five: who we are and what we do
How School Aid began: who we are and what we do. The first journey, March to April 2024 — seven weeks through Morocco. Children came to the vehicle asking for pens, not money. That request is why School Aid exists. Watch all our films on YouTube. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Stay close to the work

Follow the missions as they happen.

Mission updates, launch dates and every “where your money went” report go up on the news page as soon as there is something real to show. No noise.

Four are already published: March–April 2024, November 2024 and January 2025 in Morocco, and the August 2026 Philippines follow-up.

Read the latest field reports

From the missions

What delivery actually looks like.

A table covered with notebooks, pencil cases and colouring sets being sorted into school kits
Every kit is counted and packed by hand before it travels.
Children in a village in the High Atlas Mountains sitting with new backpacks and school kits
Handover day — new bags, new books, the same afternoon.
Children seated at tables inside a tented classroom shelter
A tented classroom still needs desks, light and materials.
Three boys examining new pens and stationery with mountains behind
The first look inside a new pencil case.
Earthquake-damaged stone houses on a snow-dusted High Atlas Mountains hillside
Two winters on, the damage is still the landscape.
The School Aid mission team standing with local men in a mountain village
Nothing moves without the people who live there.