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We're dedicated to providing sustenance and support to those who need it most. Through your generosity, we provide nourishment, hope, and the strength to overcome adversity. Join us in making a difference.

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Our Purpose

Reliable access to clean water, food, and the basic resources needed to survive.

We work to restore their communities after decades of displacement and deprivation, empowering them through sustainable agriculture, water systems, and education.

By supporting self-sufficiency and dignity, we aim to end the hunger, thirst, and marginalization the Aeta endure.

Every donation helps build a future where Aeta children can grow, learn, and thrive.

Our Work

Caring for all, together

Priority 1:

Clean Water & Safe Infrastructure

The foundation focuses on restoring natural spring waters, planting protective trees, and repairing abandoned artesian wells that have gone without maintenance since the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption. By building reliable water systems, communal toilets, and handwashing stations in schools and villages, the Aeta communities gain safer, healthier daily living conditions. Each household also receives durable containers to collect and store clean water for drinking, cooking, bathing, and growing food—turning basic access to water into a lifeline for survival and stability.

Priority 2:

Child Health, Safety & Education Access

Improving children’s well-being begins with something as simple as providing slippers to prevent parasitic infections and allow young children to attend school safely. Through strong partnerships with local health and education agencies, the foundation works to eradicate parasitic diseases across Central Luzon by 2030. A significant part of this mission involves helping children born in remote areas obtain birth certificates, ensuring they can enroll in school and secure their right to a future. These efforts open the door for every Aeta child to grow up healthier, recognized, and educated.

Priority 3:

Livelihoods, Farming & Reforestation

Sustainable farming and livestock programs help Aeta families rebuild their forests and strengthen their livelihoods. By supplying communities with seeds that produce economic value—such as root crops, beans, okra, and eggplant—the foundation supports long-term food security rather than short-term relief. Providing water buffaloes to women in the villages empowers them with ownership over vital resources that offer milk, labor for cultivation, fertilizer, and natural fuel. Together, these initiatives restore the land, improve nutrition, and create stable, community-led pathways out of poverty.

What your donation does?

Donations to the Aeta Tribe Foundation directly fuel life-changing work in some of the most underserved Indigenous communities in the Philippines. Every contribution helps restore clean water sources, build safe sanitation systems, and provide children with basic tools-like slippers and birth certificates-to stay healthy and attend school. Your support also strengthens long-term solutions such as sustainable farming, reforestation, and women-led livestock programs that create food security and stable livelihoods. With each gift, you become a partner in preserving the Aeta’s future, dignity, and ability to thrive on their ancestral land.

About the Founder

Fernando’s childhood in rural Philippines—marked by poverty, hunger, and unsafe living conditions—gives him a deeply personal understanding of the struggles the Aeta people face today. After building a new life in the U.S., he returned home and witnessed the severe hardship and neglect the Aeta communities still endure. Moved by their resilience and reminded of his own upbringing, he founded the Aeta Tribe Foundation to give these families the chance at hope and opportunity he was once given. His story underscores why this work matters: no community should be left behind, and meaningful change is possible when compassion becomes action.