School Aid MTÜ is a registered Estonian non-profit helping disaster-affected and underprivileged children access the materials they need to learn. Our team has delivered school supplies in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains and is preparing the first Bayanihan delivery in Mina, Iloilo. We equip and support existing schools; we do not operate a school.
These are accounts by the people who visited, with photographs, dates and locations. Completed deliveries and plans are identified separately.
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.
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 →Maribeth visited schools and met local representatives in Iloilo. Materials, three laptops and one solar backup system per participating barangay are planned for an initial five barangays. Delivery is planned for October 2026, subject to funding and local agreements; 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. Itemised delivery budgets and expenditure reports are planned from the October 2026 delivery onward. Reports and financial records →
The Bayanihan Programme · Iloilo, Philippines
bayanihan — the whole village, lifting one another
In Mina, Iloilo, the Bayanihan programme is designed to deliver practical school support: materials placed directly into children’s hands, solar battery backup and laptops, five barangays at a time.
The Twiza Programme · High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
twiza — the Amazigh word for the same truth: neighbours carrying one load
Our three High Atlas field visits established a school-material delivery programme. A return is planned for November 2026, subject to funding and local arrangements. Laptops and solar-powered learning are the next stage, not completed installations.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Essential school materials for children, plus solar battery backup and three laptops planned for each participating barangay. Planned first delivery: five barangays, October 2026.
Twiza means neighbours sharing the work. Our three High Atlas visits 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.
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 October 2026 Philippines 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 & governanceRegistered 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.
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.
