A charity in the Philippines is helping an important but often overlooked segment of the population: school dropouts.
Over the past 40 years, ERDA Foundation has been giving youngsters the means to continue with studies they might otherwise abandon because of hardship such as pressure to earn money for their families.
ERDA began by helping six such children; today it has assisted a total of 800,000 across the Philippines.
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