Ilokano Edu Foundation

My mother created her own FOUNDATION recently (!!!), and has already managed to raise Fr. 3000.- for it ! My Mom should have been in AIESEC ;-) And guess what: It's staying in the family, LOL She appointed me "Vice President", and my siblings are officers as well. Hope this will work! The name of her/our foundation is:

Ilokano Edu Foundation*

"The Ilokano Edu Foundation is an independent, education oriented, non-profit organization and has its main aim to encourage and to sponsor the education of poor but talented and academically gifted Ilokano children.

Officers of the Foundation:

President: Socorro Sahli

Vice-President: Carissa Nicole Sahli

Secretary: Sara Jane Sahli

CFO: John Paul Sahli

The concrete activities by which the Foundation wishes to help poor Ilokano children are: scholarships in high school and colleges, sponsorships, transportation and personal allowances.

The activity of the Foundation will be focused in this way to organizing fund raising events, acquiring sponsorship for each student from the private and public sector. It is the envisioned that one sponsor will financially help with the schooling of a student from the high school level which will continue into the college level with the mission to finish their schooling with a bachelor’s degree in their chosen field. All these activities will be displayed both in cooperation and with the support of private citizens, firms and other juridical organizations.

The Foundation treasure (patrimonies) shall come from private treasures of the officers, from donations (private and from other organizations), sponsorships from juridical and physical personalities as well as from annual fund raising events.

The Foundation will sponsor 5 students entering the high school level and will continue into the college level. When the first group of 5 students have graduated from high school and are ready to enter college, another pre-qualification round will be done for the second group of 5 students and will continue in this manner until they are ready to enter college. The financial help will be given to qualified students before the end of the school year in collaboration with the teacher and /or with the principal of the elementary school. It is desired to choose children from the barrios or barangays (...) "

* The Ilocano people are the third largest Filipino ethnic group. Ilokanos compose the largest number of expatriates in the United States, though most are bilingual with Tagalog (Wikipedia entry on "Ilokano")