New Home, New Hope
New home, new hope Our trip to Iligan last Thursday, July 25 to Friday, July 26, 2012 was impressive in many ways. Gina Tuazon and I, Annette Helbig, went to visit...
Building a new Playground building in Daanbantayan
The mission was to build a children’s playground in the municipal plaza, in front of the mayor’s office in Daanbantayan, in the North of Cebu, in an area hit by Typhoon...
Springboard Foundation Live Match 2004 Beneficiaries
SPRINGBOARD FOUNDATION Live Match 2004 Beneficiaries 1. Stairway Foundation (Lars Joergenson – Puerto Galera) www.stairwayfoundation.org 60,000 2. Kinderhilfe Philippinen (Juergen Schneidt – Leyte) http://kinderhilfe.zdf.de/main_start.htm 300,000 3. Angeles Bahay Bata Children’s Home (Bruce McTavish) www.angelesstreetkids.org/default.htm 250,000 4. Tuloy sa...
Vegetable Growing Workshop in Daanbantayan
April 2014 Growing vegetables in Lower Bantigue, Daanbantayan While supervising the family profiling for the 100 families who will receive materials to rebuild their homes, Amelia “Amy” Sotelo from Springboard Foundation,...
Graduation Day
April 2014 Manggahan School Graduation, Philippines. Hooray! It’s preschool graduation! And whether your little one attended preschool for one, two, or three years, the journey is over and time to get...
7 th Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Update
April 16, 2014 As summer approaches in the Philippines and the schools and colleges are now on their breaks, this is the perfect time to ramp up the work needed to...
Acacia Hotel : First Toy Drive
Imagine yourself growing up without a single toy to play with. Now, imagine your children not having any toys to play with because you are too poor to buy them...
6 th Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan Update
Medical Mission to Isabella, Leyte Just before Christmas we were able to pull off one of the biggest deliveries of goods in an 18 ton truck, the support of the different...
4th Typhoon Yolanda Update
Springboard News update: Typhoon Yolanda (International name Haiyan) Following from the hectic end of year activities that included enormous amounts of packing, sorting and transporting. January has become the month of...
5th Typhoon Yolanda Update
It was only after two days of returning from our visit to Tacloban that tears started to come. I was having acupuncture in China Town where I was lying with needles...