We will soon build an additional dormitory at Bohol Deaf Academy! Thank you so much to our kind donors! Check out this video of our IDEA US President, James Movius, showing the future site of BDA’s duplex dormitory, which will house 16 more students.
We sincerely appreciate your assistance in spreading Christmas cheer to the deaf children we serve in the Philippines. Because of your generosity, our deaf students received Christmas gifts, new blankets, mosquito nets, and food baskets to share with their families this holiday season.
Our prayers have been answered and our hearts are overjoyed! Our students have finally returned to in-person classes at school after missing two years due to the pandemic.
Through the generosity of NORFIL Foundation, IDEA was able to provide core houses to five families of our deaf students that lost their homes during the onslaught of category 5 Super Typhoon Odette in December 2021. The core houses were prefabricated at Hammer and Nails Livelihood Center, one of IDEA’s Employment & Income Generating Projects.
Super Typhoon Odette slammed into the Philippines a week before Christmas, leaving a path of destruction on the islands of Bohol and Leyte, provinces where IDEA is serving. Many have lost their homes, livelihood, and properties. Many of our deaf students had very little and now seem to have nothing. But BIG THANKS to our
Kinabuhi Farm is an organic, non-profit agricultural project operated by IDEA Philippines focused on developing sustainable food systems on Bohol. Our farm is largely funded by a number of generous donors from the United States. Kinabuhi Farm was started in May of 2020 by Aaron ‘Tuki’ Drake and his team of hardworking, dedicated farmers with
