Development foundation, Western Visayas
Steady income, healthy families, children who keep learning
We work beside farming and fishing communities in Iloilo, Antique, Capiz and Guimaras, for as long as it takes for the work to carry on without us.
- people reached
- 14,030
- projects running
- 6
- provinces
- 4
- years at work
- 15
Counted from our projects; every number is in the annual reports.
Our work
Three programmes, one community at a time
Projects
In the field now
Reports
Every peso, on the record
Annual reports, studies and briefs, free to read. If something did not work, it is in there too.
Annual report 2025 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
What each programme did in 2025, what it cost and what we would change.
PDF, 2 pages
Fish catch and household income in northern Iloilo (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Twelve months with 340 fishing households, before and after joining a cooperative.
PDF, 2 pages
Seed banks after the floods (PDF, opens in a new tab)
What we learned running seed banks in six barangays after the 2024 floods.
PDF, 2 pages
News
From the field
Twelve schools sign up for the 2026 reading camps
The schools will run the camps themselves this year, with our books and a week of teacher training in April.
New study: what a cooperative changes for a fishing family
Households that joined a cooperative earned more in the lean months and borrowed less.
Eleven water points in upland Antique are now running
Three more are planned before the rains, each kept by a committee of the families who use it.
With
- Sanag Family Foundation
- Lantawan Community Fund
- Hilway Development Trust
- Municipal agriculture offices
- Provincial health offices
- Schools division offices
- Dalan Farmers Association
- Sulog Fishers Cooperative
- Pag-ayo Health Volunteers
- Two state universities in Western Visayas
Get involved
Be part of it
- GiveOnce or every month. Most gifts go straight to the programmes; every peso is in the annual report.
- VolunteerWeekends with the health volunteers, reading camp helpers in summer, or your profession pro bono.
- Work with usField and office roles across four provinces, posted below when they open.