A BAG OF HOPE

On June 29, 2018, J1 Cares cooperated with the Alliance of Cultural Exchange Providers in the Philippines to hold its annual outreach program, "A Bag of Hope Project.”

A Bag of Hope Project aims to provide school supplies to underprivileged students of the Aeta community of Sitio Haduan and Marcos VIllage in Mabalacat, Pampanga.

J1 Cares collected more than 300 sets of bags with notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, and paper. The donations came from J1 Alumni, Visa Sponsors, and Host Organizations. On the day of the outreach program, J1 Alumni and ZIP Travel spent a day with the children and gave them sets of bags.

The children's smiling faces are more than enough to prove that "every act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a big difference in the world."