We spent ₱5.2M in 2025. Eighty one centavos of every peso went to schools and water.
Every year our accounts are audited and the figures go on the Transparency page. Here they are in plain words.
Schools and water: ₱4.21M
This is the building, the boats, the tanks, the filters and the water testing. One new school, Tubodako on Dinagat, took the largest share. Two maintenance visits to each of the seven running schools came next, then the start of the work on Suluan and Hernani.
Raising funds: ₱0.62M
Mica’s salary, the payment fees on online gifts, and printing for two events in Manila. We would like this lower, and monthly donors are how we get there: a monthly gift costs us far less to raise than a single one.
Running the office: ₱0.37M
Rent for the office in Guiuan, the audit, insurance, phones and the internet. Liza’s salary is split between this line and the schools line, by the hours she spends on each.
What we did not spend
We ended the year with ₱0.4M in reserve, about a month of costs. Our board asks us to keep at least that much, so a bad fundraising month never stops a build halfway.
Ask us anything
If a number here does not make sense, write to Mica at give@saluhan.test. The full audited statements are sent to anyone who asks.
Where the money came from
We raised ₱5.4M in 2025. About 60 percent came from individual donors, most of them in the Philippines, a quarter of them giving every month. Another 30 percent came from two family foundations that fund one school each. The rest came from schools and companies who held fundraisers for us.
What a school costs
A full system for a school of about 200 pupils, with a 15,000 litre tank, gutters on two blocks, a first flush pipe and two filter taps, cost us ₱640,000 in 2025, including the boat and the first year of maintenance. Smaller schools cost less; the far islands cost more.
How we check ourselves
An independent accountant audits our books every year. The board treasurer, Victor Llorente, reviews the spending every quarter and signs off any purchase over ₱100,000. Every campaign page shows what has been raised so far, updated after each bank reconciliation.
What changes in 2026
This year two schools are building at once for the first time, on Suluan and in Hernani, so the schools line will grow. We are also moving the filter cartridges to a supplier in Tacloban, which cuts the cost of each change by about a fifth and saves a boat trip a year.
