Essential school materials placed directly into children’s hands. Solar-supported learning and laptops. A careful first phase in Mina, Iloilo, five barangays at a time. School Aid is not a school: we supply the materials, power and equipment that public schools in Mina need to teach underprivileged children.
A school building needs materials, equipment and reliable power.
School Aid’s Philippines programme begins with the everyday things children need to learn—and a practical route towards solar-supported digital access.
Essential school materials will be distributed through an agreed local process that places them directly into children’s hands. Alongside this work, School Aid is raising funds for a solar battery-backup and inverter system and three laptops for each participating barangay.
The first stage will be developed in groups of five barangays so that needs, stewardship and delivery can be agreed carefully with the communities concerned.
The August follow-up combined classroom visits with practical discussions about what each school needs.
Why this support matters
Education depends on what children and teachers can use every day.
The Bayanihan programme is designed to support communities where practical learning materials, reliable power and suitable digital equipment are limited.
The programme starts with direct, useful assistance: school materials for children, equipment that meets confirmed needs and a clear local plan for looking after it.
Solar battery backup can help keep learning equipment available where electricity is unreliable. Laptops can then provide a foundation for carefully selected educational resources.
Nothing will be installed without local agreement on where it will be kept, who will be responsible for it and how children will be able to use it.
How the programme works
Materials first. Local agreement. Solar-supported learning next.
First priority
Materials for children
Everyday school materials distributed through a locally accountable process designed to place them directly into children’s hands.
Our method
Five barangays at a time
School Aid works with barangay leadership and school communities to confirm needs, delivery arrangements and responsible stewardship before each stage.
First delivery planned October 2026
Solar power and laptops
One solar battery-backup and inverter system and three laptops planned for each participating barangay, subject to funding and final local agreements.
The field record
Preparing the first phase with local communities.
August 2026 · Iloilo
A week of school and community follow-up
Maribeth de Montaigne spent one week in Iloilo visiting schools and confirming the outline of the first phase with barangay representatives and the Mayor of Mina.
Listening in classrooms and meeting the people responsible for delivery.
School visits helped keep the programme focused on children’s practical learning needs.The programme outline was discussed with the Mayor of Mina and local representatives.
Looking further ahead
Supporting farming families—separately and carefully.
Children’s education is closely connected to the stability of their families and communities. Subject to separate funding, approvals and local implementation arrangements, School Aid intends to explore a farmer-support stage from mid-2027.
This could involve purchasing biochar at market price for charitable distribution to farming families. It is a future proposal, not work already delivered.
A clear boundary
Charity and commercial activity remain separate.
Any future School Aid purchase would be an arm’s-length charitable procurement at market price. Biomass Asia Inc. is a separate commercial company that finances, owns and operates its business independently. School Aid does not fund its plant or commercial operations.
The first five barangays
Names will follow once local sign-off is complete.
For now, the programme is presented collectively. Each participating community will be added to the public record only after the details and appropriate media have been confirmed.
Help begin the work
Put materials into children’s hands—and help power learning.
Your support can help fund essential school materials, practical equipment, solar battery backup and laptops for the first group of communities.
