Kapit-Mindanao

Kapit Mindanao is a digital fundraising campaign that aims to assist youth-led organizations in giving aid to Mindanaoan communities affected by this global health crisis.

Their local initiatives and donation drives target low-wage earners, non-settler communities, IPs, the hardest-to-reach barangays, and especially those that get very little help or none at all - the marginalized, the indigents, and the most vulnerable in this period of COVID-19.

Funds raised from this campaign will be distributed among these youth organizations to help further their COVID-19 Response initiatives.

The movement was started by Mindanaoan youth leaders from MillenialsPH and I am M.A.D. (Making a Difference) who are based in Manila. These organizations had their own initiative focusing in Luzon areas and collectively raised almost $14,000.00 (Php700,000.00) and counting. We wanted to bring this back home to Mindanao and so another campaign begins!

We decided to put our networks to good use and created the largest Mindanao COVID19 campaign yet run by youth leaders. We created a powerhouse core group composed of Mindanao youth leaders (AYEJ, Project Disponer, & Marejada), pooled in our powerhouse networks (TAYO Awards, Belle de Jour, & Ideas Positive, among ohers) and called for partners (brands, local influencers, personalities, and youth organizations) who are willing to go on a social media bayanihan spirit with us!

We aim to raise $20,000.00 (Php1,000,000.00) that would help us aid 20 target beneficiaries across all administrative regions of Mindanao who are already leading initiatives in their respective communities. If we get lucky (pretty sure we will!) we will add more beneficiaries and aid as many families, organizations, and communities as much as we possibly can.

Our cash donations will assist our target beneficiaries with different initiatives ranging from providing PPEs to frontliners, food packs and family kits comprising rice and grocery items, relief goods for indigent communities, and even the production of sanitents.