Meaningful Volunteer plans to build a RYE School in the small rural town of Sugod in the Philippines.  The school will be used to teach English, computer studies and family planning.

This proposal is to raise funds for the RYE School – a solar powered , Internet enabled school where children pay in the form of community service to attend the school.

The school will also provide family planning seminars; a base for the Meaningful Shop – an Internet based livelihood project and an office for Meaningful Volunteer.

The solar paneling will:

• Provide power for the school
  The electricity is very unreliable and sometimes is unavailable for weeks at a time during typhoon season.
  
   
• Recharge car batteries.
  Many of the locals are not connected to the electricity grid and use car batteries to power lights and so on.
  
   
• Provide emergency power to the hospital.
  The lack of power at the hospital after Typhoon Frank hit Romblon was a serious hindrance to the well being of the population.
   
• Provide accommodation for volunteers.
  The second floor of the RYE School will be used to house volunteers.

We already have the following in place:

• We are teaching approximately fifty students in computer studies and English from a temporary location. 
  
   
• Four laptop computers have been purchased.
   
• Have on-line lesson plans, class lists, student notes, handover notes etc to ensure future volunteers know what they are doing prior to arriving.
   
• Have commenced work on our family planning project - Project Lifecycle.
  A 500 person sexual health survey has been completed and we are working closely with the local health care center.

You can find a full project plan for this project here.  A feasabilty study of the hydro system can be found here.