HISTORY :

Organization's Background

The seed of establishing NEGROS KABATAAN, INC. started 2 years ago and stemmed from the success of the informal outreach programs and activities by some private and well-meaning individuals.

As of 2006, around 6,000 poor Negros Occidental children have been served in terms of books, school supplies, and toys, among others. The smiles and the pure gratitude we received encouraged us to contemplate, creating an organization that will institutionalize the objectives of such program in a more permanent setting and the need to set-up a platform to sustain the good works achieved by the gift-giving activities for the children of Negros.

Negros Occidental province is number 42 out of 82 in the poverty incidence for the whole of Philippines, with 1 as the poorest. With population from age 0 to 14 at 38.64% and with 50.6% those who finished only elementary out of the 1,873,472 household population, the need to fully complement the insufficient and deteriorating educational system and the widespread poverty is the paramount consideration for establishing a reading/learning center.