Kids Who Farm and other NGOs to receive donations from a Google-led internal giving campaign

Kids Who Farm, a Zamboanga City-based nongovernment organization (NGO) encouraging young people to pursue agriculture, will receive donations from Google employees through iVolunteer.

Google employees have set up an internal giving campaign wherein Google users from the Philippines and other offices can make donations.

Once final, Google will match the funds and relay them to iVolunteer, an NGO that distributes donations to other nonprofits and facilitates volunteering opportunities.

Unless specified by the donor, iVolunteer will split the donations equally across the following organizations: Citizens Disaster Response Center, Silid Aralan, Solar Hope, and Kids Who Farm.

“Giving has always been part of Google. Knowing that the pandemic is far from over with the continuous rise in cases locally and the threat of a new COVID-19 variant, we continue to extend help where possible, especially for our local communities,” said Bernadette Nacario, Country Director of Google Philippines.

“With this employee-led effort, we remain committed to helping the Philippines get through the pandemic together,” she added.

Google has enabled similar employee-led donation campaigns for the Philippines in the past, including a matching initiative launched in November 2020 for barangays that were particularly vulnerable to the floods of Typhoons Rolly and Ulysses.

The campaign was able to raise a total of $100,000 for cash transfer programming, livelihood interventions that prioritize farming and fishery, enhanced health and hygiene support, and awareness for COVID-19 protection.

SOURCE: Business Mirror