The Yellow Boat Story
In 2010, I learned that nearly 200 children in the mangrove village of Layag-Layag, Zamboanga City, had to swim half a mile across open water just to get to school. I shared their story on Facebook. That single post changed everything.
Strangers became donors. One boat became thousands. What started as the Zamboanga Fund for Little Kids is now the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation — providing school boats, classrooms, bridges, dormitories, and livelihood programs to island communities where talent is universal but opportunity is not.
We often hear of kids that skip school to go swimming — but here we've got kids swimming so that they can go to school.
— CNN interviewThe foundation's mission is unfinished by design: it exists until no child is left behind.
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