Fundraising efforts for Yoga Medicine Seva Foundation and Her Future Coalition

The Asian Pacific Children’s Fund (APCF) was founded in 2002 by Don McAlvany and his wife Molly when they encountered an orphans home on Manila Bay.  The children in this home came from poor villages of the Philippines where they begged for food on the streets, stole or sold their bodies to stay alive, have lost one or both parents and had nowhere else to go.  Mommy Zelma, a widow from Arizona, and a Filipino couple started this children’s home well over 20 years ago with just $5000 in savings, a monthly social security check of $500 and a whole lot of love. They’ve taken homeless children from the streets and provide them with hope, acceptance and a space for growth where they can thrive and be educated up through college level.  Because the children in this home are well loved and cared for, they are happy and eager to learn the principles of how to live successful, productive and meaningful lives.  

Don and Molly soon learned that tens of millions of orphans and street children throughout the Third World do not share the same fate.  Millions of children die on the streets or in their poor villages.  Those that escape an early death live in extreme pain and poverty, most are sold or forced into prostitution.  Realizing the tremendous need in Asia (and throughout the Third World) for well-run orphans or children’s homes, Don and Molly formed APCF.  The goal of APCF is to support and ‘adopt’ as many orphans homes as they can, where loving, caring staff can give these poor children the basics of life: food, shelter, clothing, medical care, education.  Their mission is to increase these orphans homes’ visibility, and help bring in funding from individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, churches and any other group with a heart for these children.  Currently, they provide funding and support to 8 orphans homes - one in the Philippines; five in Indonesia; one in India and one in Nepal.  They are helping to give life, hope, and a future to almost 400 children at this time and wish to do more by “adopting” or supporting other well-run orphans homes and assisting them to become self sustaining.

I met Don and Molly at Valley Cathedral Children’s Home during one of my visits in Manila.  I have immense admiration and gratitude for all the love they give and the work they do in elevating the lives of many children in Asia.  I have committed to supporting their work and donate a portion of my fees to APCF on a monthly basis.  If you feel in your heart that you’d like to help and support APCF’s mission, please click the “donate” button below.  No one at the APCF takes any salary. This means that APCF has next to no overhead as an organization and 100% of your donation goes straight into their projects and is invested in the lives of children!  Make a difference in these children’s lives, one child and one orphans’ home at a time. Together we can.

Note:  It costs on average of $1,800 a year ($150/mo.) to feed, shelter, clothe, give medical care and educate each child in their homes in Asia (this varies from country to country, but is rising sharply due to inflation.)