Category Archives: Our Journey

A Summertime Visit Home

We are heading back to the Philippines to visit the family. While there, I hope to look for a small place to rent so that we have a home for the Shelter. We'll be there for two months. School is just completed and with some time off, I hope to reflect on where we've been ...

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We are collecting clothes

My duties as a MathCounts and Science Olympiad coach at school are completed. Both of these had competition in March. The MathCounts team did very well and placed in the top half of the competition at the state level. I'll now have a little more time to work on some other projects here at the ...

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Our first food drive is completed

We distributed food to over 170 families today, December 24th. Each food ...

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We reached our goal

I'm happy to say that we reached our goal of $500 for the Christmas eve food drive. Our total was almost $700. and we sent close to 27,000 pesos. This represents a start for our company and a dream that we can do great things and make a positive change. We spent two days at ...

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Thanks for the help

This past Saturday we worked at Borders Books and gift wrapped many gifts. It was a long day but we took in some donations that made it worth it. I want to thank all our friends that came out to help us as we were there from 9am till ...

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Our first food drive

At our last meeting, it was agreed that the first thing we should do is to have a fund drive for a food line. Our goal is $500.00. This will be a start so we can buy some rice and fish to give out. We're already running late as Christmas is about six weeks away. ...

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Ready to go

Welcome. My name is Kevin Smith and this is my inaugural post as president and founder of the Southern Philippine Children's Shelter (SPCS). We are a 501(c)3 non-profit public charity devoted to helping impoverished children in the Southern Philippines. We are ready to start as we have lots of ideas for our non-profit. I'm confident all ...

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