Buttons to Hope adopts scholars

Application for Buttons to Hope scholarship ends today. Thank you to those who have recognized, appreciated and embraced our offer to help. We will announce the first set of BTH scholars soon!

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"There are almost 22 million families in the Philippines. If we can convince 2 million families to adopt 1 scholar each, 2 million of our out-of-school youth will go back to school so they could be better prepared for the future. If we are able to convince 5 million Filipinos out of our 88 million Filipinos today, each one willing to adopt one scholar, 5 million of our out-of-school youth could go back to school tomorrow.

Poverty makes the poor children around us vulnerable to the diseases and malice of this world. Ignorance makes the poor children around us prey for the vultures in our society. Poverty and ignorance – these lead our poor children to prostitution, to drugs, to crime.

We are at war today. We are at war against poverty, against greed, against corruption. During wars, where there is actual combat with mortars and missiles, we help people along the way. We give them food, we give them water. We should do the same now. We should not leave behind our people to suffer in poverty. We should not leave our poor children in the streets. We should find a way to feed them. We should find a way to send them to school.

To adopt a child as a scholar is one simple but tangible way to help our poor children. Every family in our country who has the means, who can afford, must be encouraged to adopt one scholar. Adoption of poor children as scholars should become part of our culture as a people." - Excerpt from a speech of Atty. Alex Lacson


Buttons to Hope heeded the call to contribute to reducing poverty by helping a few scholars from Baao, Camarines Sur get college education. To all our supporters, thank you for making this possible.

Disclaimer: F.A.R.M. as a group is non-partisan and not a supporter of any political figure. But in principle, we do support political agendas that aim to promote education for all Filipinos.