How to Give

GIVE TO VIRLANIE Please help Virlanie give street children a home, a family, food, education and a future.

Our Campaigns

"Rice Up!" is a campaign aimed at providing rice - the Filipino staple food - to street children.  

Virlanie Foundation invites the public to donate 50 sacks of rice per month so that it can provide 400 disadvantaged children with 3 meals every day. Through its Mobile Unit and the Open Day Center, Virlanie provides meals to an average of 140 children every day.  Apart from this, Virlanie Homes shelters more than 450 children in one year. 

The campaign runs from October 17 to November 30, 2011. It is launched in conjunction with National Children's Month.

Virlanie has several activities and events lined up for the month like the Friendly Football Match on October 22 and participates in an art contest hosted by the Committee on Children in Poverty in Urban Areas on October 29.  

For the right to food, “Rice up!”

The right to food is a basic human right as declared by the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 (Art. 25). However, this right is not fully vested to all Filipinos. According to a recent report made by UNICEF, one in 3 children under 5 years old suffers from severe malnutrition in the Philippines. Malnutrition is the cause of half of the deaths among children in the Philippines.

Virlanie Foundation, which looks after disadvantaged children, ensures that beneficiaries are provided with three balanced meals a day. Furthermore, Virlanie reaches out to disadvantaged children in poor communities in Divisoria through its Mobile Unit and through its Open Day Center in Quiapo. In 2010 alone, the Mobile Unit was able to provide 8,800 meals to street children in Divisoria.

Why rice is so important to children

Rice contains over 15 vitamins and minerals, and unlike other high carbohydrate foods, rice contains high quality proteins.  Rice also contains all 8 of the essential amino acids, which helps in building and maintaining muscle tissue, antibodies and hormones.  Above all, rice is a crucial component to Filipino food culture, just as a family atmosphere is important to a happy child.

How to “Rice Up!”

Anyone can donate a sack of rice or more to Virlanie. Cash donations are also welcome, a sack of rice is equivalent to Php 1,900. 

If you wish to donate rice to Virlanie, you can:

• Call us so we can pick up your donation at (02) 895 3460 – 101
• Drop off your donation at Virlanie’s main office on 4055 Yague St., Brgy Singkamas, Makati City 1204
• Download the pledge form, fill it in and send it to frcom2@virlanie.org
• Choose to donate the cash equivalent through online payment

Virlanie Foundation is grateful for friends and donors who support and help us give back the smile to street children.