Learning without leaving anyone behind
53 laptops and 6,000 reusable face masks reached the PEARLS Learning Center in Bulacan and Project PEARLS college scholars during school closures.
Special project
ONE BACKPACK. A WHOLE YEAR OF POSSIBILITY.
Cassie’s Bag of Dreams brings high-quality backpacks, school supplies and hygiene kits to children, so they can arrive at school prepared, proud and ready to learn.
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Cassie’s story
A young advocate choosing education.
Cassie Eng is a dedicated Project PEARLS volunteer, youth ambassador and the youngest advocate behind this personal project. Her Bag of Dreams Challenge was created around a clear idea: children deserve the practical resources that make education feel possible.
Across its first ten years, the challenge reached more than 2,600 students in Lucena, Bulacan, Manila, Zambales, Tondo, Guimaras, Camarines Norte and Siargao with backpacks, school supplies and hygiene kits.
A personal promise
Every bag carries a reminder: someone believes in you.
Bag tags connect each backpack with the donor who helped make it possible. That small, personal detail tells a student that there is someone cheering for their education, even from far away.
What began with one young person’s determination became a long-running community of sponsors, families, school partners and children carrying their own dreams forward.
Past campaigns
A decade of bags, supplies and hope.
Bulacan and Tayuman
70 nursery scholars in Bulacan received school bags and supplies. Another 250 students at St. Arnold Janssen Kalinga Center in Tayuman received bags through a partnership with Be A Giver.
Siargao and Camarines Norte
171 students at Lasala Elementary School in Siargao and 500 children across five barangays in Daet received school bags and supplies.
A wider circle of learners
Teenagers at Pangarap Shelter Learning Center, 50 nursery scholars in Bulacan and more than 300 scholars in Helping Land, Tondo received backpacks and school supplies.
Guimaras
Students at Dasal Elementary School in Sibunag, Guimaras received backpacks and school supplies.
Bulacan and Zambales
More than 300 Project PEARLS scholars in Bulacan and another 300 Aeta children from the Lakas Tribe in Botolan, Zambales received backpacks filled with school supplies.
Where the dream began
The first Bag of Dreams Challenge reached 300 Tagalog and Badjao children in Barangay Dalahican, Lucena City.
Historic 2014 campaign photos: Sidney Snoeck, Payatas Orione Foundation, Mailou San Gabriel and Jay-r Panagsagan.
Keep the dream moving