YouMeWE Institute Incorporated, Philippines

Why are we in the Philippines?

As we know Japan has more people over 65 years old per capita in the world and less under the age of 15 years old.

We see opportunities for the children we support in Japan who can have opportunities to teach Japanese online to Filipino nurses passing the Japanese nurse exam in our collaboration in Boracay. There is a demand for 1,000,000 nurses in Japan. Not just in hospitals but taking care of the aged population.

We see that people graduating from university in Japan and almost 99% of the graduates being hired may NOT be doing jobs in construction, convenience stores, or fast food jobs.

More and more we are impressed with what we see in the Philippines. The GDP is growing and the population will continue to have more opportunities as the economy grows.

In the past week, we visited the orphanages in the Philippines we support, SOS Village, Thanang Ng Pagmamahal, Nazareth Home for girls, and now Pangarap Foundation.

Whilst we are located in Las Pinas we started to reach out to homes in Las Pinas like Nazareth. This home is run by nuns and for girls not only in school but as accommodation for aged out youth.

They bake bread on the weekends and serve the community.

They also have an electric vehicle which they use to deliver elementary school children to school but it has become unrepairable after much investment. The need for a reliable is essential because too many times the e-truck breaks down in bustling traffic and the sister has to escort the kids to the sidewalk and to school as they come back to deal with the e-truck.

<The green e-truck needs at $2,000 donation to replace with the Orange Truck on the right>

We then reached back to Thanang Ng Pagmamahal who house babies from a week old up to about 11 years old.

Children in the Philippines tend to be adopted domestically until two and a half years old. From two until about eleven years old they tend to be adopted by foreign families. Yet, post 11 years old, they are moved to a more permanent accommodation.

Though we are teaching them weekly English and coding lessons, when we learn that a child has moved on, we have contacted and connect with their new homes and started to teach them there. Everyone needs to know that YouMeWe measures our success in decades because it takes decades to work with the children and make the effort to stay with them so they know they are important and part of something bigger than themselves.

We have set up at SOS Village with one dozen computers and will soon start weekly lessons with them. They have over 103 children.

Finally two boys transferred to Pangarap Foundation.

Set up to take in street boys and others transferred in from other orphanages they have a history of helping the inhabitants excel and move forward in life.

We visited their library and started lessons with them this week.