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  • 01/05/2018 - 25/07/2018

Ryan Lamayo is participating in 2018 Prudential RideLondon Charity Ride for Save the Children
and is fundraising for Save the Children Hong Kong Limited

I'm making a difference by raising money for a cause close to my heart. Please support me by donating.

My Story

Dear Readers and Patrons,                

     Thank you for taking this time to support a most valued cause. Being a father of three, it is most important that I give my children the best education there is. I believe any parent would do anything to give just that. But alas, given this country’s economic challenges, many parents in the Philippines still struggle to find the means to access education for their children even at the most basic level. 

It is disheartening that I encounter abandoned children everyday on the streets scouring means to find food instead of scouring their hands into artworks and science experiments that only their imaginations can limit. I am ashamed when I see teenagers whose innocence is sold by their own mothers just to temporarily free themselves of poverty.  

It is a fact dear readers and patrons, that inaccessibility to basic education is commonly rooted from poverty. It is a fact that around 2005, net enrollment rates at the elementary level had dropped to 84.4%. By mid-decade, elementary school drop-out rates had regressed at its lowest last seen in the 90’s. In 2008, achievement rates in basic education in the Philippines had fallen dramatically due to chronic underfunding. Net enrollment among children in elementary and secondary education has been dropping since 2005. (UNESCO, 2017)

Through all of the adversaries in children’s education, it is also an empowering fact that WE be an instrument of change.  A change to create a more livable, hopeful and brighter future for children deprived of opportunity, deprived of love. I have been given this great opportunity to make a change and I am asking you, dear patrons, to help me be an instrument of change and support me for their future. With your donations, let us try to change children’s future and put them in classrooms. Create opportunities for them to unravel their imaginations and be the great minds of the next generation.        

Background: 

Every child has the right to reach their full potential. But in Cambodia and the Philippines some of the most deprived children are denied just that. Why? Because the early years of children lives are simply not getting the attention and investment they so desperately need.  We know a child’s early years are fundamental in determining their future life chances. Science tells us that the experiences, learning and development that happens very early on in children’s lives set up their brains for being able to learn in school and throughout life.  In Cambodia and the Philippines, less than a third of children have access to early childhood care and development services, with disastrous results for their education. Many children do not complete primary education and some leave school unable to read at all.

 

Programme’s Objectives:

  • To ensure that pre-school children in the Philippines and Cambodia get the best start in life and help them stay in school to achieve their full potential
  • Parents and caregivers are children’s first and best teachers. First Read empowers parents and caregivers to help young children develop essential literacy and numeracy skills as well as train them on child health, nutrition and social and emotional development. Together we will be able help over 216,000 children directly and indirectly.

 

Summary of the programme:

  • To accelerate child development by:
    • Developing exciting and engaging age appropriate children’s books in local languages
    • Donating these books to families so they can read to their young children
    • Training parents to incorporate talking, signing, counting and reading into everyday life with children
    

Thank you for your support.
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Recent Donors

  • bryan evangelista

    Proud of you sir! Good Luck and Enjoy!

    USD 50 06/14/2018 04:13:37 AM UTC

  • Aileen Perez

    Good luck Ryan! Go go go! :)

    PHP 1,000 06/13/2018 02:33:05 AM UTC

  • Rina Gana

    USD 50 06/12/2018 12:59:11 PM UTC

  • May Ramos

    Go Ryan Lamayo!

    PHP 1,000 06/11/2018 04:55:54 AM UTC

  • Elaine Katindoy

    USD 50 06/08/2018 01:44:15 AM UTC

  • Maribeth Cruz

    Ryan good luck and God bless you always.

    AUD 50 06/04/2018 09:03:47 AM UTC

  • Emil Marquez

    PHP 1,000 06/01/2018 01:19:31 AM UTC

  • Jhona Ubas

    PHP 4,000 06/01/2018 12:53:00 AM UTC

  • Anonymous

    PHP 2,000 06/01/2018 12:35:28 AM UTC

  • Dulce Dizon

    Good Luck BU Ryan K Lamayo

    AUD 50 05/30/2018 11:41:38 PM UTC

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