1. General Donations – Support living expenses and all activities like storytelling.

This helps cover tuition and school needs for scholars not yet sponsored, and living costs for those staying at MCL. It also helps with food, gas, and transport for overseas guests visiting MCL.

If you donate, even just a little, we’ll start sending you our newsletter every other month. If you don’t need one, please let us know (josefmatsui@gmail.com).

2. Medical Aid – (Please write “Medical” when donating!)

One of the hardest struggles is access to healthcare. We bring medicine to villages and help kids get urgent hospital care—even surgeries that cost a great deal.

We aim to grow this effort into a core MCL project, with the goal of building our own MCL clinic as graduates become nurses and doctors.

3. Agriculture/Environmental Support – $400 USD (includes planting and labor)

This helps MCL work toward long-term sustainability through coconut, rubber, and cacao farming.

4. Daycare Center Construction – $6000 USD (half cement walls), $9000 USD (full cement)

Built to meet new welfare standards. You’re welcome to join opening ceremonies or visit anytime. We check and repair them every year.

5. Scholarship Program (currently around 160 students)

We prioritize children in hardship—orphans, single-parent homes, or extremely poor families—over grades.

From elementary to college, MCL provides tuition, uniforms, supplies, food, and lodging.

College – $500 USD/year

High School – $400 USD/year

Elementary – $300 USD/year

Please let us know whether you wish to support a “college,” “high school,” or “elementary” student when donating. You’ll get letters and photos, and for older kids, report cards and handwritten New Year’s cards.

You can send letters or gifts—they’ll be translated and delivered with a reply from the child.

For requests, lecture invites, or visits to MCL, contact us (josefmatsui@gmail.com). Airport pickup, lodging at MCL, and visits to scholars’ homes are all provided at no cost.

You can donate by bank transfer to our bank account in the Philippines:

–

■ Bank: Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company (Metrobank)

■ Account Name: Mindanao Children’s Library (MCL) Foundation, Inc.

■ Account Number: 008-2-008017853

■ SWIFT Code: MBTCPHMM

■ Contact us (josefmatsui@gmail.com) when making a donation to let us know how you would like us to use your donation.