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New Community Farms

.We are so excited to have started two farms in the rural areas where families from the Tondo dumpsites were relocated to. 200 families were selected based on their needs and earning capacity to be part of the communal farming projects. What’s been so fun is to see how the young people have joined ...

The Story of How The Philippine Community Fund Became Purple

When we first started our Philippine project in 2002, it was always our hope that we would be able to raise money in the Philippines to support the work we started and eventually turn over the management of the project to the local board of trustees. In 1996 Jane Walker (founder and CEO) was ...

PAWA Life Transformation Program

This excellent programme has been designed by PCF Philippines in partnership with Pan-Asia Women’s Association (PAWA) and it is a resounding success. The programme began in April and will finish at the end of July. 50 female public school students living in Baguio have been enrolled onto the ...

Thank you, Margaret Curness & PCF Scotland

To celebrate Volunteers Week and show our gratitude, this month we wanted to feature some of the amazing work done by Margaret Curness and her family and our growing number of supporters up in Scotland. Margaret is a long standing supporter of PCF and has been making it her mission to spread the ...

Please stop collecting Food Tin Ring Pulls

We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued and valued efforts collecting ring pulls and other items for us. However, we most highlight again that we are NO longer accepting food tin ring pulls - this includes pet food tins. Unfortunately we have had to cease ...

Join the Purple Movement by becoming a member of the PPS Team

We really need more of you lovely lot to join us and help us sell our beautiful upcycled handcrafted products. Being a Purple Product Seller or as we like to call them PPS is easy, fun and changes lives. Even if you don't think you have time to become a PPS perhaps you know someone else ...

Purple Upcycling Scheme

upcycle ˈʌpsʌɪk(ə)l/ verb gerund or present participle: upcycling reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original. As many of you know we have an ongoing recycling scheme which we now prefer ...

Celebrity Endorsement for PCF

Jane was thrilled to meet Nicki Chapman at the Southport Rotary conference. Nicki was so impressed with our work she described it as an "outstanding project, beautiful products that you can see are made with so much pride and love and are giving women and their families a chance to live dignified ...

Recent Overseas Livelihood Appeal Update

In 2010 we moved into our beautiful purpose built school, providing a clean, safe, environment to educate the children. Ron and Jo Domingo who ran our youth programmes stayed behind and formed their own charity called Kalayaan Community Ministries and continued to serve the wider community. Jane ...

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