Core House for Typhoon Odette Victims
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. IDEA’s Founder, Dennis Drake, previously …
Restoring Hope… Rebuilding Lives
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 generous donors, we are bringing …
Summer 2021 Newsletter
Check out our Newsletter Summer 2021 Issue!
Kinabuhi Farm
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 the goal of providing healthy …
Donate Your Old Tablets to IDEA
Please consider donating your tablet to IDEA today and join us in bringing hope to thousands of impoverished deaf children and their families! Watch this video to know how your donated tablet will be used to change the future of the Deaf in the Philippines. Tablets can be dropped off at Faith Chapel in Billings, Montana (attention: Glen/Megan). You may also …
Buwan ng Wika Commemoration at Bohol Deaf Academy
A myriad of colors filled the Angelo King Hall at Bohol Deaf Academy (BDA) that eventful Friday. The female students were wearing their colorful Filipinianas, Baro’t Saya and Kimonas. The men looked dashing in their Barongs. Some students even opted to wear ethnic costumes that portrayed what indigenous people used to wear and which some existing tribes still don …