What is APFI?
Arnel Pineda Foundation, Inc. (APFI) is a non-stock, non-profit, and independent Philippine foundation that provides underprivileged children quality education, health services and medical attention. For millions of youth in developing countries like the Philippines, education is seemingly beyond reach. Poverty and inadequate government...
Our Projects
APFI fosters growth of general education through mobile schools for youth dropouts, and scholarship programs for deserving students. APFI engages in health and wellness-oriented projects for marginalized children through medical missions, gift-giving and feeding programs, and subsidizing hospitals with medicine and medical procedures for ill,...
Helping APFI
Contributions are most welcome in the form of medicine, educational materials, clothing, etc. – whether they are from individuals or the corporate sector, and from anywhere in the world. Monetary donations are indeed most helpful as well. Please visit the GIVE page to learn more about getting involved. APFI is open to collaborate and...
APFi Video Montage
This piece is dedicated to each and every donor, volunteer, fan, friend and individual who supports and believes in what we are doing. This is for you. With endless gratitude.
Photography: Reau Gutierrez, Justice Flores, Ferdie Arquero
Appeal for typhoon Pedring victims
Arnel Pineda Foundation Inc. has launched an appeal encompassing October and November 2011, in the wake of the devastation brought by Typhoon Pedring (international code name: Nesat). APFI is accepting monetary donations or in kind. Through your generosity, we will be able to provide basic necessities and food to the hardest-hit cities in the Metro Manila area.
BANK DEPOSIT IN PHILIPPINE PESOS
Account: 4690083978
Banco de Oro Timog – EDSA
134 Timog Avenue
1103 Quezon City, Philippines
Bank SWIFT Code: BNORPHMM
BANK DEPOSIT IN US$
Account: 4690085911
Banco de Oro Timog – EDSA
134 Timog Avenue
1103 Quezon City, Philippines
Bank SWIFT Code: BNORPHMM
IN CHECK
Make Payable to Arnel Pineda Foundation, Inc
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Arnel Pineda Foundation, Inc.
146 Timog Avenue corner EDSA, Brgy. Sacred Heart
For more information, please visit our DONATE page: http://arnelpineda.org/give/donate/
For your bank deposits to be properly acknowledged, please send us your deposit or transfer transaction with your name, address and contact number at info@arnelpineda.org.
APFI appreciates your continuous and unwavering support. Thank you!
Kiddie treats mark APFi’s first year
Arnel Pineda with volunteers (Click to see more photos)
Organizations usually hold exclusive celebrations for their members to mark the special moment. The Arnel Pineda Foundation Inc. (APFi), a non-profit organization aiming to help children of struggling Filipino families, did just that, with a somewhat different twist: they included 100 school-going children of Barangay Batasan Hills, Quezon City and made them the focus of its celebration.
The anniversary rites were held at the covered basketball court on Saret Street, Barangay Batasan Hills, Quezon City at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 12, 2011, in cooperation with the barangay council headed by its chairman, Rannie Ludovica.
“We’re aware of the problems and hardships you’re facing,” rock singer Arnel Pineda, the APFI chairman, told the children and their parents in Pilipino at the celebration. “While we won’t be able to solve them, we’re here to make them easier to bear.”
Twenty seven APFi volunteers took part in the celebration, dubbed “Misyon Ngiti: Feeding and Gift Giving Mission,” and distributed toys, board games, clothes, school supplies, juice and rice meals among the children, aged three to 10 years.
A balloon, magic and puppet show featuring Tita Amor Fernandez, 29, a professional children’s party host, magician and ventriloquist, served as the main event.
Tita Amor kept the children and their parents amused with a show and tell number consisting of vertical balloons twisted into various shapes.
The excitement was further heightened by a relay race and song and dance numbers in which the children took part. These were capped by conversations with a puppet named Kiri, Tita Amor’s “best friend”, and magic tricks usually performed in long sleeves but done instead in T-shirt and overalls.
On its first year, APFi conducted various relief missions providing children of struggling Filipino families in Metro Manila and other urban areas with various forms of support, ranging from school supplies to instruction in basic hygiene and special care for hospital patients.
Danny Agoncillo
APFI Volunteer
