GreenEarth Heritage Foundation, Inc.

I live in the Philippines, a country where one-fifth of the population lives below the poverty line. The latest figures from the Philippine Statistics Authority show that farmers and fishermen are among the poorest in our country. Farmers make less than 150 USD a month and rarely finish elementary school! Majority only make it to 5th grade. Children lose their motivation to study because they lack the resources to sustain their education (public school is free, but school supplies, laptops, project costs, field trips are not), and the urgency to earn a living in order to help augment their family income as early as possible is always pressing

Three years ago, I met Romnick Blanco, a farmer's child who chose to be different. He attended public school. His mother heard about a new foundation nearby called GreenEarth Heritage Foundation and so they went to apply for him to become a sponsored child. Green Earth aims to preserve the environment, to adhere to sound and sustainable organic agricultural practices , and to alleviate poverty through livelihood, education, and community development. Romnick walked more than 4 hours round-trip , crossing rivers and unpaved roads in order to get to GreenEarth. In 2011, Romnick became a sponsored child of GreenEarth where he learned English, computer literacy, and attended values formation classes. Seeing his grit, GreenEarth helped him compete for a scholarship at the International School Manila where he became the first farmer’s child to be accepted by the school in its 92-year history. He is now a sophomore at Harvard University! He is the 7th out of 9 children, and the first to even get past middle school in his family. I would like to help rural poor children from Romnick’s community have better quality education right where they live under the auspices of GreenEarth’s “LIVE, HOPE, DREAM” educational initiative, by providing them with the necessary venue to do so. Please help me raise the funds to build a school house for the children of GreenEarth!
I am trying to raise money in other ways too. In October, I worked on putting together an online fundraising concert. Hope you enjoy watching it!

GreenEarth Schoolhouse Fundraising Concert

This February, we put together a Valentine's Day Concert.Our star-studded cast will entertain you with songs from Broadway and Disney, classical music, and even poetry reading in the comfort of your own home. The concert has a special introduction by Jon Jon Briones, a Filipino actor who rose to fame as the engineer of Miss Saigon and is now making waves in Hollywood. To read more about our other amazing performers from the Philippines and the United Kingdom, please refer to the program: How do I Love Thee Program Enjoy the show!

Hi Everyone,

For the project during my gap year, I will be raising funds for the construction of a medicinal herb garden at GreenEarth Heritage Foundation. As you may know, primary care is difficult to access for the rural poor, especially those in the Philippines, and often times they rely on the medicinal properties of natural products for their ailments. The funds collected will be used to construct a garden full of 65 medicinal herbs, which the farmers and their families can continue to use. Having an interest in health and medicine, I want to leave a community with a greater understanding of the substances growing around them, and in the long run, GreenEarth's founder, Dr. Mylene Matti, and I hope that the farmers can propagate the herbs to a greater quantity, which can be vacuum packed and sold for an additional supplemental revenue.

Thank you so much in advance for your support!