Ten Foundations

The Club with Belfast Junior Chamber is actively supporting Ten Foundations with the building of homes in the remote Balayan region of the Philippines.

Ten Foundations is a charity founded by Ian Campbell in Belfast in 2012. It aims is to empower women living in extreme poverty in the Philippines to help them break extreme poverty they have been stuck in by:

• providing skills so they can earn an income to improve their overall life
• ensure that all children connected to the community are educated to the highest possible standard and
• through their housing project vastly improve the standard of living for people connected to the project

The women are taught the skills and given the tools to transform their own lives, by being able to design and produce extremely high quality schoolbags/backpacks to be sold throughout the UK and Ireland instore and online. The knock-on effect of this is that they are now able to provide their families with food, healthcare, home and improvements and, most importantly, they can send their children to school every day which aids the escape from the extreme poverty cycle that they have been born into. The charity currently employs over 70 paid staff in the Philippines, which consists of research and development, designers, bag makers, marketing, quality control and a management team to oversee the project.