Author Doug

Water For The Farm

It has been a very challenging time for our farm team. It has been almost a three month battle in search for water. This has truly been a test of faith. Do we keep planting when we don’t have water? Will it keep on raining? The workers at the farm have been transporting water three times a day […]

A New Batch Of Students

This year a new Department of Education requirement was that we hand over our Kinder 2 class to them.  This was not easy for us or for the families of the children wanting to continue at Hope for the Island Preschool.

Books For All

When my children were very young I started reading to them. I was determined to do everything to make them book lovers. Knowing how to read well with understanding is a skill that carries you through every area of life. Hope for the Island Library started because we wanted every child in our municipality to […]

Prenatal Program

We have officially launched the Prenatal and Maternal Health Program.  Hope for the Island is honored to be a part of protecting the most valuable asset of Siargao’s future; the generations of children to be born in the years to come.  The future of this Island will be in the hands of those children developing […]

Good To Be Home

The month of May was a great month for our family. Because school was out, we worked it into our schedule to get away to meet the growing developmental and social needs of our kids.  Although challenging at times, growing up and living on an Island is more than awesome for them in so many […]

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