The pandemic has impacted communities and livelihoods for more than a year now. Through our Food Sharing Program at the Rise Above Foundation Cebu (RAFC) and with the help of sponsors, the team set on another mission to share basic needs such as our staple food — rice.
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Our dear friends from Switzerland, Heinz and Eva, have lived in Cebu for a few years already, and they enjoy volunteering with Rise Above. Recently the Rotary Club that Heinz is the president of, collected funds and purchased 500 kg rice to be distributed to poor families that were affected by the Corona lockdown. The
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In February 2021, the Rise Above Team distributed blouses and blankets knitted by a group of lovely ladies from Denmark to mountainous areas around Cebu, Philippines. With the assistance of staff from the local government, the team was also able to visit a small community of street-dwellers who live in makeshift houses made of scrap
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In the past year, most of Rise Above’s programs have been put on hold but we were able to continue reaching out to those in need through the Food Sharing Program, Educational Sponsorship Program, Livelihood Program and Gift-Giving Program through your care and generosity. Before we finally leave the year 2020 behind, allow us to
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Wow! What a year!! This little devil has caused untold suffering and problems during the year 2020. Not only here in Cebu, but all over the world, and most affected is of course the many poor people living in cramped living conditions with limited income. No work means no money, no money means no food
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Several months of lockdown in the Philippines not only brought challenges to Rise Above’s different projects but also to its livelihood program, Rise Up Craft Creations. With weavers depending on the sales of the products for income, the Rise Up program managers just couldn’t bear to tell them to stop weaving due to zero sales and no new
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Year after year, typhoons have been bringing strong winds and rain to the Philippines, especially in the last few months of the year. In the month of November 2020 alone, it has been extra devastating as 4 typhoons – 2 of which are supertyphoons (“Rolly” and “Ulysses”) and among the strongest ones – made landfalls across the country for consecutive weeks and left
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Food Sharing Program In March 2020, Dr. Vy Do reached out to us with the intention of sponsoring the Food Sharing Program, which Rise Above Foundation Cebu, Inc., with the help of friends and generous donors, regularly holds to help ease the hunger of children and families from slum areas around Cebu, Philippines. Due to the unexpected turn of events and
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“Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful” -Kate McGahan In the midst of a pandemic, we still find ourselves blessed with people who choose to set aside their share of the struggle and reach out to those who are most in need. With more than 85,000 COVID-19 cases in the Philippines and
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One can practice social distancing and still reach out. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. All of a sudden, Rise Above projects were put on hold, interns and volunteers were urged to fly back home to their respective countries, and lives and livelihoods all over Cebu and
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