Our Stories
Be A Star, Light Up a Family’s Home this Christmas!
Christmas is the children’s joy but there remains many children in the slums who do not experience a special celebration for this season. Yearly, we give poor families an extraordinary December to Remember through generous sponsors from across the globe. By donating, you can be the next Star to Light up a family’s home this Christmas!
Support BeAMerry Holiday Campaign Now!
RAFC partners with BeamAndGo for this year’s Christmas campaign dedicated to poor families in Cebu. Now is the best time to help our underprivileged kababayans in Cebu and send BeamAndGo donations via Rise Above Foundation Cebu through the link: https://bit.ly/BnGRiseAboveNew.
Learning Through Play | The New RACC Playground
Play is essential for the mental, physical, and emotional health of every child and this is the main reason why the Rise Above Community Center (RACC) is designed to ensure holistic development of all children. We are thankful to the Danish company ‘Medarbejdernes Honorarfond i Novo Gruppen’ for the sponsorship in building a new playground which we inaugurated on October 8, 2022 together with different sponsors who helped us build the RACC and its program
Rebuilding Homes, Developing Lives
A house rebuilding and restoration project in response to Typhoon Rai, locally known as Typhoon Odette. Thank you Developing World Connections (DWC) in Canada for this immense sponsorship.
Cheryl’s Golden Moves
It is a proud moment for Rise Above Foundation Cebu (RAFC) to share that our inspiring scholar, Cheryl Angot, reigned supreme in the extremely difficult Asian Online Chess Championships for Players with Disabilities. Cheryl, 26, won Gold under the Physically Impaired Women division held last May 27-29, 2022. The Philippine Para Chess Team did a triple-gold harvest in this international chess competition.
The Resilient Mothers of Rise Up Crafts
Rise Up Crafts is a social enterprise and livelihood program, created by the Rise Above Foundation Cebu (RAFC). Recybags [re-si-bags] are the main products hand-woven by the mothers who have no stable means of income to sustain a healthy life for their families.