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THE DRAGON BOAT RACES FOR THE FOUNTAIN OF LOVE by Jay Denvher Soriano

The Padua Charitable Fund’s “Fountain of Love” School Project in Bani, Pangasinan, Philippines is now completed and ready to be utilised this year! This daycare centre was started in 2013 through the fundraising activites of the Padua Charitable Fund (UK registered 1123426) with the devoted supervision of British Filipina actress Rachel Grant and her mother Isabel Padua Grant in liaison with the municipality of Bani.

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YOLANDA by Jay Denvher Soriano

Who could ever forget Typhoon “Yolanda” (internationally Typhoon Haiyan) that horribly struck the Visayan Provinces of the Philippines in November 8, 2013 - the most devastating typhoon to ever hit the nation resulting in the loss of thousands of lives, destruction of homes and livelihood, schools and orphanages and the ruin of agriculture, trees and plantations in the affected areas.

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PCF Scholars Earn Their Degrees by Jay Denvher Soriano

Nothing worth having comes easy --- this is the principle that guided and molded the first two college graduates of the Padua Charitable Fund (PCF). In 2012, Rizza Bang-ay and April Fajardo, residents of Airlift Asia Inc/Gawad-Kalinga housing, El Dorado, Parañaque were granted full scholarships by PCF.

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Shining brighter after the storm… by Rachel Grant

Sitting on bags of rice and relief supplies, the Philippine Air Force C-130 I boarded at Manila’s Villamor Air Base, touches down at Tacloban. It is my first time to Leyte and initial glimpses reveal beautiful skies and calm seas; the other side of the aircraft tells a very different tale...

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June 2013 - Dragon Boat Race

The Padua Charitable Fund’s “Fountain of Love” school building and typhoon shelter project has been selected by Connia Interiors of Nottingham UK as their dragon boat team’s fund raising recipient for the annual Nottingham Dragon Boat Challenge event.

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April 2013 - Fountain of Love School project

Padua Charitable Fund volunteer Rachel Grant, has pledged to raise funds to build a much-needed school for 150 children - typhoon survivors in Bani, Pangasinan in the Philippines. 100% of all profit from her first book collaboration "Making a Difference" is being donated to this school building project, also doubling up as a typhoon-proof shelter for some 600 villagers. Around 1 million pesos ($24,000 USD/£15,500) is needed for the construction and any more will go towards school supplies. The land for the school has been generously given for free!

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September 2011 - Guest Teacher Workshop

The first PCF Celebrity Guest Teacher Workshop was held on Sunday 21st August at GK's AAI Eldorado village, Paranaque, Manila. All were thrilled to welcome Guro Victor Gendrano Jr, an American-Filipino instructor from the world renowned Inosanto Academy in Los Angeles. Guro Victor, who has worked on several Hollywood films, was kindly offering a complimentary Filipino Martial Heritage seminar during his visit to the Philippines.

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September 2011 - New Zealand Writer

By PCF Co-founder Isabel Padua Grant. In October of last year, I (via this website) received an email from a New Zealand writer, Wheldon Curzon-Hobson, who was planning a trip to the Philippines, the country he chose to be the basis of his e-book about the good that people do in the world, his argument being that enough is written about the bad that folks do.

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August 2011 - Watertank Construction

The Padua Charitable Fund has recently funded the proposed construction of a watertank stand to support 3 watertanks (donated by the Rotary Club Paranaque) to supply water for the Eldorado Airlift Asia multipurpose centre which also houses the school of the community.

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August 2011 - PCF BOAT

The Padua Charitable Fund has recently purchased a boat ("bangka") for a small fishing village in Ternate, Cavite. This help is needed by the local community since many of their boats were lost during a heavy typhoon in 2009, robbing the families of their livelihood and ease of travel. Without a boat the children of the community have to walk an hour to school!

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July 2011 - Art Exhibition Fundraiser

On July 11, a glamorous night of fundraising for the Padua Charitable Fund took place at the Philippine Embassy in London. British-Filipino actress and performing artist Rebecca Grant held an art exhibition, depicting West End and theatrical scenes from shows she has performed in. "An Actor's Art" exhibition successfully ran for two weeks at the Philippine Embassy, marking the 65th anniversary of Philippines-United Kingdom bilateral relations.

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July 2011 - Summer Fundraiser

On 10th July THE PADUA CHARITABLE FUND along with the Nottingham Philippine Youth Association held their first annual Summer Fair at St Theresa Church Hall in the legendary Robin Hood city of Nottingham, UK. The well-attended weather-blessed event included a variety of fun-filled fabulous stalls and activities.

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July 2011 - Ground Breaking

The Padua Charitable Fund is providing 35 families living in slums in Paranaque Philippines with new decent homes. This current housing project and monitoring is at the Sapang Maligaya village (Baranggay Sun Valley, Paranaque). Construction of the first 12 houses commenced this July.

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June 2011 - Eleanor McCarthy Scholarship

The Padua Charity Fund has started a special scholarship program for bright talented individuals with good high school grades who can not afford to attend college. These young students are chosen from underprivileged areas in Manila. This year PCF donors have selected two new students who will benefit from the PCF programme in honour of Eleanor McCarthy.

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May 2011 - School Transport Project

Part of the Padua Charitable Fund educational programme is the School Transport Project, launched this July for the school year 2011-2012. PCF is sponsoring the cost of daily travel to and from school for 29 high school and college students who have real difficulty funding their schooling. The students were selected on the basis of financial means, diligence and willingness to help out in the community.

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April 2011 - Mindoro School Project

The Padua Charitable Fund has provided a year's supply of note books and schooling utensils to a mountain community known as Mangyans in Mondoro, Philippines. PCF staff were shocked to learn of the limited school system in one particular community. One notebook was being used for an entire school year of teaching children and a few pencils were for all to share.

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March 2011 - New PCF library & School

The Padua Charitable Fund has helped a new Sibol (under 6 yrs) school by donating hundreds of good books for a new community library at the newly-constructed Airlift Asia multipurpose centre in AAI/GK Eldorado Village.

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October 2010 - Feeding programme

The Padua Charitable Fund organised and funded a successful feeding progamme for over 100 children at El Dorado GK village in Manila, Philippines. The feeding programme included numerous games with prizes along with entertainment of singing and dancing provided by the village children. Later, there was a fun play session with "Intsa-Snow" - snow being something which most had never experienced.

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February 2010 - PCF School Trip

On February 22 2010, 31 children along with 15 adults from Gawad Kalinga's Ancop Sibol School enjoyed their first day trip to the Bio Research learning center and aquarium in Metro Manila. The entire trip was kindly donated by Padua Charitable Fund members who visited the school and met with the children earlier this year.

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Christmas 2009 - Volunteers visit the Philippines

Over the festive season, British and American PCF volunteers travelled to the Philippines visiting several Gawad Kalinga sites and schools donating writing materials as well as distributing Christmas gifts to over 300 children which included shoes, books, chocolates and even snow (Insta-Snow) which proved a big hit!

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December 2009 - Dance Show/Fundraiser

On December 6th The Angela Grant School of dance held its first annual ballet and awards show in aid of The Padua Charitable Fund. The sell-out show "The Gallery", held at St Dunstan's church in Acton in East London featured over 100 costumed children in 15 stunning dance numbers. Each dance saw famous paintings of artists "come to life" from Van Gogh's Sunflowers to Matisse's Cat.

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October 2009 - Hurricane Ketsana relief effort

The Padua Charitable Fund organized a successful relief effort for 130 families who were victims of Hurricane Ketsana. Millions of people were affected by the devastating floods which swept through the streets of Manila in September 2009.

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