EOFO-EOTO is actively engaged in helping children attend school in the village Inarawan, in Oriental Mindoro, Philippines who do not have the means to do so. We provide a monthly ration of rice, and an allowance to purchase school supplies and meet other needs that would normally prevent them from attending school. The children and their families are actively monitored for their grades and attendance. We provide a weekly character and moral education class along with tutoring on their public school subjects that they are having difficulties with.
We have just begun educating out of school youth and adults who need literacy training. We are hiring more staff to provide professional tutoring.
We actively engage local farmers, whom we have created trusting relationships, with small grants, and loans to create self-sufficiency for their families.
On weekends our staff and students are engaged by the local community to create and participate in life enriching activities for adults, children, and junior youth.
Why education?
“Through education the ignorant become learned; the cowardly become valiant. Through cultivation the crooked branch becomes straight; the acid, bitter fruit of the mountains and woods becomes sweet and delicious; and the five-petaled flower becomes hundred-petaled. Through education savage nations become civilized, and even the animals become domesticated. Education must be considered as most important, for as diseases in the world of bodies are extremely contagious, so, in the same way, qualities of spirit and heart are extremely contagious. Education has a universal influence, and the differences caused by it are very great.”
Abdu’l-Baha