PROJECTS

Our Kids 4 Kids Vision will distribute emergency backpacks at the first alert of impending weather situations. These backpacks will be delivered to families prior to a major weather event. The Backpacks will include facemasks, sterile gloves, hygiene items, blankets, rain gear, solar flashlights, first aid kits, and food rations. 

Our Kids 4 Kids Vision will provide humanitarian relief to displaced families due to environmental disasters. 

Our Kids 4 Kids Vision is preparing 500 backpacks for families impacted by the devastating typhoons in the Philippines. 

Give $100 for each family. 

The Clean Water Initiative of the OurKids4KidsVision has been a continued effort to provide impoverished communities in the Philippines with necessary clean water. In 2016, before OurKids4KidsVision was established, founding members visited the Camarines Norte region of the Philippines to visit family. They left with a deep impression that the indigenous people they had met, the Manadis, were living in unsuitable conditions. Shortly after, an idea was brought forth to fundraise to create a water filtration system that would provide the Manadis, as well as surrounding indigenous populations, with clean water. In 2019, OurKids4KidsVision held its first formal event, a fundraiser banquet that raised nearly $3,000 for water filtration pumps that were promptly installed in the area. Today, these pumps are still actively used to provide a community of over 200 people with clean drinking and bathing water. 

Currently, there are only two pumps in the region that are installed and running. Further funding will be necessary to maintain existing pumps, as well as installing new pumps across the area.

The Honey Bee Farming Project (HBFP) is an initiative of the OurKids4KidsVision  entirely through the effort of the local community. Beginning with a sum of $2,000 from the savings of the Esmer family, the organization was able to supply four houses that served as the primary facilities for this project. The region of Paracale, Labo serves as the heart of this operation. Here, community members work diligently, not only to construct the four buildings from the ground up, but also to raise honeybees and sell honey to their surrounding communities for a profit. 

This project is a working example of a system of self-sufficiency given to the Labo community. The funds went to a single neighborhood in Paracale, one of eighteen, and serves as a pilot project for further continuation of the HBFP in Labo. Unfortunately, the operations of the diligent workers have come to a halt due to constant inclement weather; a regular typhoon season has caused their facilities to be unusable in recent months. A resilient people, they look to the future for the continued success and prosperity of their livelihood. Funding will be allocated to repairing their facilities with improved, weather resistant materials which will allow them to pursue their work for years to come.

The disasters which strike the Philippines can have a devastating effect on communities in the Philippines. Small communities are most affected by these environmental events.  The area is densely populated, and many poor families live dangerously close to rivers which almost encircle the community. When typhoons and floods strike homes are quickly flooded, and families have to evacuate to safety. Our Kids 4 Kids Vision proposed Disaster Relief and Multipurpose Center will be equipped to host evacuees.  This project will help equip the evacuation center so that vulnerable families can find safety during disasters. It will also be used for life skills training; micro-enterprise incubator projects, and community development and will serve as a community center.