# Bayanihan — building towards a better nation

> A private, non-profit organisation carrying on the Filipino spirit of bayanihan: awareness, a community centre, and neighbours helping neighbours.

**Building towards a better nation**
![Children at the water’s edge, smiling, in a coastal village](/images/hero-children.jpg)
Carrying on the Filipino spirit of bayanihan — neighbours helping neighbours, one community at a time.
[Our cause](#cause)

**Call for donations**
![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-4.jpg)
For the families rebuilding after Typhoon Odette. Cash or in-kind — both reach a household this week.
[Give now](#give)

**Be a volunteer. Make a change.**
![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-8.jpg)
Two hours a week is enough to change one family's month.
[Join us](#give)

- 1248+ — families helped
- 320 — volunteers
- 4910 — people donated
- ₱2400000 — funds raised

### About us

We are a private, non-profit charitable organisation with a commitment to enable and empower the Filipino people to become catalysts for positive change.

#### Our mission

Carrying on the Filipino spirit of bayanihan, our mission is to build a country where every neighbour can reach a neighbour in need — through awareness, a shared place, and work that outlives the news cycle.

#### Our vision

A Philippines where helping is ordinary: where the question is not whether to act, but how soon.

![Hands holding one another — the bayanihan spirit](/images/about-hands.jpg)

> Success for us is not how much money we have, but how many lives we have improved.
> — Our belief

### Gallery

![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-1.jpg)
![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-2.jpg)
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![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-8.jpg)
![Bayanihan volunteers and the community they serve](/images/gallery-9.jpg)

### Our cause

**The Bayanihan Centre — a place to gather, learn and be helped**
₱1240000 / ₱3000000 (41%)
Raised in 4 of 9 months. Every peso is listed in our public ledger.
[Support the centre](#give)

Ongoing

#### BayaniBun

For every BayaniBun purchase you become a Bayani, helping to uplift our community.

[Follow us](https://www.facebook.com/bayanibun)

Phase 1

#### Social awareness

To educate and create awareness around the topics that shape quality of life: misinformation, health, and the environment.

[Learn more](/#about)

Phase 2

#### The Bayanihan Centre

A venue where people meet, learn and are helped — the physical place the whole programme is built around.

[See the plan](/#give)

Call us

[+63 997 107 9653](tel:+639971079653)

Open

Mon–Sat, 08:00–18:00

Write

[hi@bayanihan.org.ph](mailto:hi@bayanihan.org.ph)

### Be a volunteer. Make a change.

Tell us how you would like to help and we will call you within two days.

[Write to us](mailto:hi@bayanihan.org.ph)