Most of international tourism is still suspended and the global health emergency still demands attention. For this reason, it was an extra challenge for us, the tour operator Tropical Experience, to fulfill the solidarity campaign that we have been organizing on an annual basis since 2017. Happily, it was possible to do 4 times better: instead of only 1 as originally planned, there will now be 4 college students receiving annual scholarships from our program. This was possible thanks to the participation of our clients, followers and friends plus some of our direct donations. Thank you to all those who joined us in this purposeful goal!

In 2017, Tropical Experience started supporting Young Focus Foundation (www.youngfocus.org), an organization that works in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Manila. The Foundation gives assistance to local young students in order to help them receive proper education. This is done through scholarships and support starting from kindergarten until university.

For many years, Young Focus  gave the chance to many kids to break free from poverty and change their lives through the power of education. As communicated by Young Focus in their Thank You Letter published on our website, the pandemic is having an impact not only on the Philippines' public health, but it is also creating an education crisis in huge proportions. With the closure of schools, which started already more than 1 year ago, and with low chances of reopening soon, many families are concerned about the long-term effects on their children.

The hardship of distance learning increased when combined with extremely poor life conditions. In order to avoid the pandemic easily becoming a vector of school dropouts for the most economically fragile students, it is fundamental to give all the possible help now!