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> July 16, 2003
PIPIT FUND established. This day marks the
incorporation of Pipit Fund. It adopted the existing
projects initiated in the community of Calamba, Laguna,
Philippines by
Gilbert Henry Lee, Eunice Bejar-Lee and Estela Bejar as
private individuals.
History: A Work in Progress
Ongoing Programs
Envisioning Future Projects |
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Our Mission |
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 To increase
awareness of underdevelopment, its causes and effects and to
create the means and solutions to overcome them.
To develop
and foster partnership between US and Philippine communities
in the areas of economics, education, environment and
culture.
To develop
linkages between the Philippine diaspora in the US and
individuals, families, organizations, and communities in the
Philippines.
To provide
avenues for Filipino-Americans to support community
development in the Philippines. |
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| The Organization |
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PIPIT FUND, INC. is
a non-profit PUBLIC BENEFIT CALIFORNIA CORPORATION that
supports projects and mission here in the United States and
in the Philippines. Gilbert Henry Lee, Eunice Bejar-Lee and
Estela Bejar have been supporting projects in the
Philippines for the past 12 years as private citizens.
All these projects
are now adopted by The PIPIT FUND, INC., incorporated as a
non-profit in July of 2003 to better reach out to the
community. Pipit Fund, Inc. provides funding for college and
high school scholarships, books for community and school
libraries, support for church and youth development
programs, and women empowerment through collectives
programs. PIPIT presently supports twenty eight (28) high
school and eleven (11) college scholars, four Barangay
(Neighborhood Council) libraries and the Sucol Women
Collective for Micro-credit and Livelihood Project for forty
(40) rural women. |
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This year, PIPIT
will expand the scholarship program to increase the number
of high school scholars to fifty (50) students and add four
(4) more college scholars. PIPIT also ships donated books
twice a year to community libraries and conducts yearly toy
drives for the Annual Christmas Party for 200 plus children
in the beneficiary communities in the Philippines.
Future projects include the construction
of a Computer Learning Center in Sucol, Calamba, Laguna,
Philippines (for the use of college students and out of
school youth) ,and support for the work of the Sisters of
Charities of St. Anne’s Amade Clinic that serves the Mangyan
community in Mindoro.
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