Filipino Touris4SDGs and Education4SDGs Campaign

Andrew Williams is organising this fundraiser.

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AFTER RECOVERY FROM TYPHOON NORU/KARDING, OUR TOURISM4SDGs AND EDUCATION4SDGs CAMPAIGNS CONTINUE (andrew@andrewnetworksdotcom)

$250,000 GoFundMe Tourism4SDGs Eco Resort Campaign

Our Demo Unit Will Showcase Typhoon-Proof Domes for our Future Eco-Resort in Daraitan from our operational offices near the Treasure Mountain Educational Complex

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As a primary directive of its global marketing strategy, PARXTC is demonstrating its Environmental, Societal and Governance (ESG) commitment in alignment and compliance with the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact’s 2021-2023 Local Network Strategy respecting Human Rights, Labor, the Environment and Anti- Corruption/Transparency during this Decade of Action to Deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a Tourism4SDGs Export Marketing Project.

In a joint venture with a local Filipina manager, on December 21, 2021, PARXTC CEO Andrew Williams, Jr co-purchased family land for leasing near the Treasure Mountain Educational Complex in the San Andres Mountains to launch Andrew Networks Treasure Mountain Easypay Coffee and Water Selling Enterprises (ANTMEC) on May 10, 2022.

Over the next few months, PARXTC attracted and spent blended foreign direct investments from African Royalty, Indigenous, Jewish and African-American non-governmental foundations, financial institutions into regional water, electricity, wifi and broadband enterprises as a “Rethinking Tourism” project; they secured a 99-year lease to build and open a 2½ acre Eco-Tourism Resort in the Daraitan Barangay of the Rizal Province that will include a typhoon-proof village model to generate local and regional sales of U.S. based Intershelter Domes throughout the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

ANTMEC champions SDG #5, empowering women and girls (to alleviate poverty (SDG #1) by: delivering fresh water (SDG #6) at a reduced price; thus reducing inequalities (SDG #10); while improving food growing capacity (SDG #2) from the San Andres Dam Authority (SDG #9) that provides decent work for our female management team (SDGs #5 and #8)) through our solar-supported (SDG #7) GCash remittance service and Chong Coffee Vendo franchises for Tanay Rizal tourists to the Treasure Mountain Educational Complex.

ANTMEC’s 60-month water, electricity, wifi and broadband contracts deliver fresh water to 31 Katutobo Tribe Farm families in the San Andres Mountains; in-home electricity for 28 indigenous Narro Dulo Homeowner Association member households in Cuyambay; delivers wifi and broadband internet services to 1,942 dispersed households in Sampaloc Tanay Rizal impacting 8,952 children who can now go to school and/or access in-home tutoring while providing adults with online connectivity and income- generating opportunities that reduce poverty (SDG #1); improves food security (SDG #2) and health outcomes (SDG #3); impacts educational outcomes (SDG #4); bridges the digital divide (SDG #8); integrates infrastructure development (SDG #9) from the metropolitan to the rural area (SDG #9, #10, #11 & #12) by contracting with (AND STABILIZING) the indigenous Katutobo and underserved Tagalog communities (SDG #16) in a climate-smart (SDG #13) multi-stakeholder global partnerships (SDG #17).

ANTMEC’s major vendors include United Nations Global Compact Members Globe Telecom (Ayala), servicing 1,760 households, as well as SmartBro broadband wifi units powered by USA Manufacturer Evoluzn as data provider for 182 households in the Cuyambay and Paenaan Baras Barancays.

Please read to the bottom of this post to see that our Tourism4SDGs project successfully raised over $78,000 to purchase and install equipment and supplies that delivered water and electricity to 250+ indigenous peoples in the San Andres Mountains of Tanay Rizal Province of the Philippines and then expanded to an Education4SDGs project delivering wifi services to 7,000+ residents in the Sampaloc, Tanay Rizal barangay so their kids could return to school for the first time in 2 years with in-home internet services.

ALL WAS WORKING FINE ON AUGUST 22, 2022 WHEN A SERIES OF CYCLONES HIT, CULMINATING WITH TYPHOON NORU/KARDING THAT WIPED OUT EQUIPMENT AND WAS FOLLOWED BY TROPICAL STORM NALGAE THAT DAMAGED WATER AND ELECTRICITY EQUIPMENT.

We need your help to build back better - from the bottom up. Thank you.

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Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae, known in the Philippines as Severe Tropical Storm Paeng, was a very large and deadly tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage across the Philippines and later impacted Hong Kong and Macau. The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) also followed the JMA's lead and gave it the name Paeng. That same day, it was upgraded again by the JMA to tropical storm status, thus gaining the name Nalgae.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Nalgae_(2022)

Andrew Networks Filipino Typhoon Recovery Campaign to restore wifi for 1,760 households impacting 3,500+ Filipino students returning to school for the first time in 2 years and 3,500+ adults for $25,000. See: https://bit.ly/Filipino-Typhoon-Recovery

Philippines Update October 3, 2022: 1 fatality (indigenous farmer), continuing power outages, NOTE insurance will cover 100% of equipment replacement (poles, dishes, routers) but NOT 25,000 feet of wires and connectors AND supplier cannot get to our area for at least 10 days from now, impacting 4.61 persons per household (5,900 people, most of them students). This 60-month SDG #4 Education for All initiative has already invested over $75,000 to get this far, so raising $25,000 over the next 10 days will keep us on track. SEE: https://gofund.me/9004ee15

BACKGROUNDER:

On May 16, 2022, the President of the Katutobo Tribe Farmers and 31 farmers signed with ANTMEC a 5-year water delivery contract with the stipulation that ANTMEC pay for the installation of the necessary equipment to bring fresh water to the 31 separate farming households for the first time in history.

On June 18, our water pumps started pushing waters to fill wells, irrigate the land and provide fresh water to indigenous Katutobo families for the first time in history. We were even able to secure funding to add extra equipment needed to get water to all 31 farms by July 1, 2022, through a last minute pledge of our property, thanks to generous donations and conscientious lenders

On July 1, we purchased and installed wiring for 28 indigenous Narro Dulo Homeowners' Association of Cuyambay Barangay.

On July 22, we installed wifi poles, wires and routers to bring internet to 1,760 households in Sampaloc, Tanay Rizal

On September 15, we installed in-home 5G SmartBroadband units at 150 houses in the Paenaan Tanay Rizal Barangay and at 32 houses in the Cuyambay Barangay

On September 25th Typhoon Noru wiped out wifi equipment for over 1,700 houses and flooded the community, but insurance covered most of the losses, except for $25,000.

Help Restore wifi for 1,280 households of Filipino students in Sampaloc, Tanay Rizal Philippines returning to school for the first time in 2 years

SEE: https://gofund.me/9004ee15

MACABEBE, Philippines, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Millions of Philippine students returned to classrooms for the first time in more than two years on Monday, after the country lifted most remaining COVID-19 curbs to try and reverse learning losses

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/philippine-children-back-school-pandemic-restrictions-ease-2022-08-22/

Philippines Returns to School, Ending One of World’s Longest Shutdowns

Source: New York Times August 22, 2022 MANILA — Millions of students throughout the Philippines headed to school on Monday as in-person classes began to fully restart for the first time in more than two years, ending one of the world’s longest pandemic-related shutdowns in a school system already plagued by severe underinvestment. Currently only some schools are in-person all five weekdays; by November, all of the country’s roughly 47,000 schools will be. The number of those enrolled in the country has hit nearly 28 million children, both in the public and private schools.

Super Typhoon Noru hits the Philippines forcing thousands to flee

Super Typhoon Noru has slammed into the Philippines, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Source: https://bit.ly/Super-Typhoon-Noru

Deadly Typhoon Noru Strikes

At The Philippines

At least five people were killed as Typhoon Noru swept through, leading to widespread flooding and mandatory evacuations.

https://bit.ly/Deadly-Typhoon-Noru-v20220926

PHASE I COMPLETED BEFORE THE TYPHOON: JULY, 2022

Andrew Networks Treasure Mountain Easypay and Coffee (Gcash Distributor and Chong Coffee Vending Franchise)

We own 700 square meters facing road 15-minute walk to Treasure Mountain with Water Selling License from Sierra Dam.

Water Pump pulls from 21 miles to serve local communities including 31 Indigenous Katutobo Farming Families

THANKS TO WORLDWIDE SUPPORT, WE HAVE FINANCED THE EQUIPMENT FOR WATER PUMP, GENERATOR, METERS AND HOSE TO INSTALL RUNNING WATER FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER AT THEIR FARMS AND ARE OVER HALFWAY TO OUR GOAL FOR JULY 10, 2022.

WE'VE PAID IT FORWARD AND NEED YOU TO STEP UP NOW!

That's only the first step in our $25,000 journey to deliver Tourism4SDGs benefits to the Treasure Mountain community in the Tanay Rizal area of the Philippines

Filipina ANTMEC Manager Jobily Vargas champions SDG #5, empowering women and girls (to alleviate poverty (SDG #1) by: delivering fresh water (SDG #6) at a reduced price, thus reducing inequalities (SDG #10) while improving food growing capacity (SDG #2) by installing water tank, pump and generator to pull water through 34 kilometers of hose from San Andres Dam (SDG #9) that provides decent work for our female manager and assistant manager (SDGs #5 and #8)) through our solar-supported (SDG #7) money transfer and coffee vending operation for tourists and free water to the indigenous Katutobo families who visit.

Through these efforts indigenous farmers save 25% from their monthly water expense, getting fresh water delivered to their doorstep for the first time in history (SDG #6); increasing the number of children who can go to school (SDG #4), improving food production (SDG #12 & #15) through infrastructure development (SDG #9) for increase fresh food sales in the metropolitan area (SDG #11 & SDG #12) by contracting with the indigenous Katutobo community (SDG #16). In a global development partnership through the Sustainable Development Goals (#17) ANTMEC is partnering with a 501c3 Non-Profit Fiscal Agency to provide a 100% tax-deduction for individuals, businesses and foundations who donate to this $25,000.00 cause of delivering fresh water and troubleshooting any delivery challenges for indigenous Katatobo farmers and their families for the first time in history. On the other hand, we’re happy to pay a 50% interest for a 12 month straight loan.You can donate directly through https://gofund.me/9004ee15

Or email for information: [email redacted]

MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY: https://gofund.me/9004ee15

The Treasure Mountain

Tanay is one of the 1st class municipality in Rizal province. It is famous to having overlooking cafes and restaurants, and camping/glamping grounds. This is a place to go if you’re looking for a place with views of the ridges. There are also one-of-a-kind resorts where you can relax and rekindle with the mother nature. Moreover, this is a go-to getaway of tourists from the hustling and bustling of the Metro Manila. You’ll be delighted at how magnificent some of these locations are

Treasure Mountain first opened its doors in 2017. The location is well-known for its majestic sea of clouds and breathtaking views of the Sierra Madre mountain ranges. This large private property, formally known as Treasure Mountain Educational Campsite, is an ideal place for a quick weekend getaway and a quick retreat from the busy city life

https://islandtimes.com/treasure-mountain-tanay-rizal-a-chilly-summer-camping/

TREASURE MOUNTAIN

[ 4k ] ALL DRONE Video Tour | Treasure Mountain - Tanay, Rizal | Island Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=ag1l6EotOU8&feature=emb_logo

Treasure Mountain is one of the most popular tourist spots and camping sites in Tanay, Rizal. They are famous of their "sea of clouds" that occur seasonal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=253&v=EvD39wRCs5w&feature=emb_logo

Treasure Mountain: Beauty and Serenity│Tanay, Rizal Educational Camp [ENG SUB]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c3Hnhq_Qug

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TREASURE MOUNTAIN * Cuyambay, Tanay, Rizal

https://www.philatlas.com/luzon/r04a/rizal/tanay/cuyambay.html

14.5985° N, [phone redacted]° E * Elevation: 1,657 Feet

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From Metro Manilla or Tanay Via Private Vehicle:

• Via Marcos Highway

The most straight forward route is via Marcos Highway. You will pass by Masinag, Cogeo, Boso-boso Resort, Foremost Farms, Palo Alto, and Garden Cottages. The road going to Treasure Mountain is on the left side. This turn is quite hard to miss as you’ll see a line of tricycles along the road. This is the same jump-off point going to Mt. Sapari and Mt. Binutasan (Maysawa Circuit). From the jump-off, you’re about 1.5 kilometers away from your destination.

You can opt to drive your car until you reach Treasure Mountain or park it at the jump-off site and ride a tricycle for Php50/pax. Note that the road going up is rough. Only a little portion is paved. When it rained the day before, expect a very muddy road. We’re driving a sedan and we did not take the risk, so we parked it for Php30 and took a trike going up.

• Via Sampaloc in Tanay

Another route is via Sampaloc in Tanay, you’ll pass by the same road going to Daranak Falls. Turn left when you reach the intersection, just go straight for about 45 minutes to 1 hour passing by Sierra Madre Resort, Ten Cents to Heaven and Pico de Pino. The road going to Treasure Mountain will be on your right.

Via Public Transportation:

Via Cogeo:

• Take a van or jeepney goint to Cogeo Gate 2 or Padilla for Php24.

• At Gate 2, take jeepney bound for Sampaloc, Tanay via Marcos Highway for Php45

• Get off at Sitio Maysawa (Maysawa Circuit).

Note that jeepney’s last trip is at around 5pm-6pm.

Via Tanay:

• Take a jeepney going to Tanay Public Market.

• From the Public Market, take a jeepney directly to Cuyambay.

• Get off at Sitio Maysawa (Maysawa Circuit).

• Take a jeepney going to Tanay Public Market.

• From Public Market, take a jeepney to Sampaloc and get off at intersection.