Rice harvest in crisis. Help women farmers and their children adapt and thrive.
Dry spells and heavy rainfall threaten rice harvests and farming livelihoods in Iloilo, where malnutrition remains a serious concern.
Help women farmers build practical skills to adapt and support their families, and help their children learn. Our Bayanihan programme starts in Cabalabaguan, Mina.
€34,312 for Cabalabaguan first. €171,559 for the full five-barangay programme, delivered in phases.
Programme status: school and community assessment completed in August 2026. We are raising funds for Cabalabaguan first. Equipment and laptop training will take place at the primary schools; women’s courses will be held at Mina TESDA Center. Delivery has not yet taken place. Read the visit account.
August 2026latest follow-up in Iloilo
5barangays in the wider programme
6laptops planned per barangay
1solar backup system planned per barangay
Children first
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 six laptops for each participating barangay.
Cabalabaguan is the first fundraising phase. Abat, Agmanaphao, Bangac and Nasirum form the remaining four locations in the wider programme.
Cabalabaguan Elementary School in Mina, Iloilo: the first school in our Bayanihan programme.
Why this support matters
Food insecurity and malnutrition put families under pressure.
A difficult harvest can leave farming families uncertain about food and income. Malnutrition remains a serious concern in Iloilo. Our response is practical education that helps women farmers build skills and gives children better access to learning.
Fifty women farmers in the first programme will receive practical livelihood education at Mina TESDA Center, including introductory soil care, water conservation and climate adaptation.
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.
The evidence
What is happening in Iloilo
Verified figures behind the Bayanihan appeal, with their sources.
How the programme works
Women’s practical education and children’s digital learning.
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
Cabalabaguan first
School Aid works with barangay leadership and school communities to confirm needs, delivery arrangements and responsible stewardship before each stage.
Delivery follows funding
Solar power and laptops
One solar battery-backup and inverter system and six 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.
Mayor Rey P. Grabato of Mina with Maribeth de Montaigne of School Aid MTÜ, agreeing the outline of the Bayanihan programme.Barangay Captain Eve Eden of Cabalabaguan and local representatives discussing the first phase with School Aid MTÜ.
Bayanihan is being planned with the Municipality of Mina, Iloilo, under Mayor Rey P. Grabato, and with the Barangay of Cabalabaguan under Barangay Captain Eve Eden.
A classroom at Cabalabaguan Elementary School during our August 2026 visit.Lunch time at Cabalabaguan Elementary School.Pupils of Cabalabaguan Elementary School.Mina Skills Training Center (Mina TESDA Center), where the courses for fifty women farmers will be held.Inside the Mina TESDA Center: the workshop hall.
The first five barangays
Agmanaphao, Abat, Bangac, Cabalabaguan and Nasirum.
Chosen with barangay representatives and the Mayor of Mina during the August 2026 visit. The map below shows all 22 barangays of the municipality, with the five programme barangays marked. Cabalabaguan comes first.
The programme, mapped
Five programme barangays. Cabalabaguan first.
Every pin below is a barangay of Mina. The five gold stars are the Bayanihan programme’s wider programme — tap one to see what’s planned there.
Barangays of Mina municipality · 22 totalBayanihan wider programme · five barangays · delivery in phases, starting with Cabalabaguan
Help begin the work
Help women farmers adapt. Help their children learn.
Help raise €34,312 for Cabalabaguan: six laptops, solar backup, school materials and onsite training, alongside practical education for fifty women farmers at Mina TESDA Center.
Targets use the approved planning budgets and allow for payment and platform charges estimated at 6% of gross donations. Actual charges will be reported. Programme costs remain researched estimates until purchases and delivery arrangements are finalised.
Ways to give
Every gift counts. €10 helps buy school supplies for a child; €60 covers a child’s learning materials for a year; €320 funds training for one woman farmer; €1,600 trains five women farmers.
Larger gifts fund whole parts of the programme, and the community has invited us to recognise them: a solar learning station in your name (€2,000), the women farmers’ programme (€16,100) or the digital classroom (€18,200). Donors who fund the digital classroom or the whole first barangay (€34,312) are invited to visit Cabalabaguan, with travel and accommodation at their own cost and risk. Visits are arranged in advance and follow our safeguarding rules.
Every amount is the full delivered cost — purchase, transport to the village, installation, local coordination and payment fees. Any unspent contingency goes to the next location. For gifts of €10,000 or more, or to discuss naming or a visit, email david@school-aid.eu.
See what your support achieves
We will report funds received, actual fees, spending, equipment delivered and training activities. Completed work will be distinguished from work still planned.
100% of our spending will be published, with progress labelled funded · purchased · delivered · completed.
