The PLS funded and completed the construction of a multi-purpose learning center in the area of Sitio Pallang, Barangay Pugaro, Manaog Pangasinan with the aim of helping young school children. This project was initiated by the HRA Batch 1969 Association and the land was donated by the Manaog Parish. During the pandemic, a growing concern for...
During a trip of five PLS committee members to Busuanga, Palawan, they met the teacher of the Busuanga Day Care Center. Mrs Rea expressed her worries of not being able to offer quality education to the children due to the poor infrastructure of the school. The day care center was destroyed when Typhoon Haiyan hit...
In 2011, during a visit of a committee member in the Philippines, she became ill and was rushed to Aklan Baptist Hospital. The hospital was run down and lacked hospital equipment. PLS approached the hospital to ask how we could help. This resulted in the roofing project of the hospital where the roof was completely...
Today, there are more than 35 million children under the age of 15 living in the Philippines. 12% of these children have special needs. Of the 12% of children with mental or physical disabilities, 97% do not receive appropriate educational services. PLS has been supporting the Gerona North Central Elementary School SPED (special education) Center...
Payatas is one of the poorest regions in the Philippines and has one of the biggest existing dumpsites in the country. The PLS project in Payatas, a project co-funded by the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, aims at reducing poverty by offering children quality education and access to technology as well as training and microcredits...
At the end of 2017, PLS, in partnership with the association “Soroptimist International of the Philippines”, started a water pump project in order to supply four different elementary schools with clean water. One of the four schools is the Oquendo Primary School, a two-classroom school with 79 students, located in the municipality of Balete, in...
