Send 200 Filipino kids to better daycare centers

A Focus on Health Services and Improvement

The emergence of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) that has affected more than 80,000 people all over the world has shifted the spotlight to what ordinary citizens can do to protect themselves from the disease. While efforts to develop and test vaccines are on-going, the World Health Organization has advised the public about basic protective measures they can do against COVID-19, putting emphasis on the importance of good grooming and proper hygiene in combating the disease.

Through your support and donation, the Daycare Improvement Project had already provided the needed hygiene and grooming kits to approximately 300 children in six impoverished daycare centers in the La Union province. The kits include supplies for oral hygiene (toothbrush, toothpastes, and tumblers) and supplies for ensuring cleanliness of their bodies at all times (soap, alcohol or hand sanitizers, and nail cutters). In addition to this, every daycare center under the project were provided with first aid kits and vitamin supplies for their students.

Based on reports from our daycare teachers, all the students enrolled in the daycare centers are generally in good health. The daycare centers also work with their local community health centers to monitor the health condition of every enrolled learner. Daycare teachers and parents are very thankful for your support, crediting the increase in health and hygiene supplies as one of the key reasons why children remain healthy and illness-free.

In addition to material support and better coordination with health service providers, the Daycare Improvement Project also facilitated a series of seminars and workshops on good grooming and proper hygiene for all target La Union daycare students. With the help of community health workers, children were taught how to properly brush their teeth, the proper way of washing hands, and good respiratory hygiene (covering your mouth with a tissue or a bent elbow when you cough or sneeze). These seminar topics have been integrated and strengthened in the daily teachings of the daycare centers.

In-Kind Donations

Since our last report, HBI through the Daycare Improvement Project received donations in-kind from local donors who do not have access to credit cards but still wanted to pitch in. A group of young working professionals donated 400 pieces of educational toys as their contribution to the daycare improvement project which were distributed by HBI to daycare students in the Holy Spirit Community in Quezon City, Metro Manila. Several private individuals also donated story books and school supplies that have been distributed to the six La Union daycare centers. HBI would like to take this opportunity to thank these in-kind donors who usually do not get the reports of this project since they didn’t make a monetary donation through the GlobalGiving platform.

Our Continued Thanks to our Donors

The improvements of the six daycare centers in La Union (Bay-O, San Antonino, Tubaday, Basig, Pitpitac, and Cabalitocan) and the provision of needed education and health materials and supplies to the 300 daycare children would not be possible without your continued support. In behalf of everybody who is part of the Daycare Improvement Project – the children, the teachers, parents, and community members, we would like to fervently thank you for your help.