Celebrate community-building through the holidays and beyond

Every Christmas, the outpouring of gifts and assistance for the less fortunate generously arrive to charitable foundations and orphanages. Christmas fundraisers are usually organized to supplement these institutions’ limited resources and bring cheerful celebrations to orphaned kids or the elderly. These holiday outreach activities bring so much light and happiness to those who need it and, hopefully, more of them evolve into long-term programs that can support communities throughout the year, and not just through the season.

To achieve sustainable improvement, it is important that basic deficient areas that can hinder the development of individuals like food, shelter, and education are targeted. This is the path that McDonald’s has taken through the Ronald McDonald House Charities. The various projects that fuel progress in communities aim to bring lasting effect by sharing kindness and light to those in need.

Ronald McDonald Bahay Bulilit

Partnering with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and different local government units, Bahay Bulilit aims to build learning centers in areas where they are most needed.

Recently, a Share the Light, Share the Kindness event was held at a Ronald McDonald Bahay Bulilit in Quezon City which brought smiles to children through fun games and food! Take a look:

The fun doesn’t stop there because they create safe environments where children of low-income families can learn and play. There are currently 39 Bahay Bulilit Learning Centers nationwide with an average of 90 to 100 learners for each Bahay Bulilit.

McDonald’s Kindness Kitchen

Originally a response to the COVID-19 pandemic providing meals to neighborhoods, frontliners, and volunteers in need, this has evolved to become an all-year round program to include disadvantaged communities. Currently, more than three million Filipinos have benefitted from this initiative.

Ronald McDonald Read To Learn Program

Read To Lead aims to teach beginning reading in public elementary schools through a partnership with the Department of Education and Adarna House. This is a literacy program that starts with a teacher training program, reading program implementation, and ends with monitoring and evaluation where McDonald’s employee volunteers are tapped.

When we aim to secure the needs of our children, there will be healthy bodies and healthy minds to build better communities.

Be a part of this support by purchasing a Happy Meal or by directly donating through the Ronald McDonald House Charities:  https://www.rmhc.org.ph/donate/