ERDA Foundation

A human development organization, the ERDA Foundation provides educational assistance to children of poor families so that they can finish an elementary education. It runs community-based preschool classes to help prepare poor preschoolers for elementary school. Tie-up arrangements enable ERDA to extend its educational assistance and preschool prog... rams nationwide. In addition, ERDA runs community-based livelihood and health programs, and a continuing education program which provides values formation and leadership training. In addition to educational support, ERDA also provides protection and advocacy for children's rights in the Philippines in which it has been an active crusader. ERDA currently has over 24,000 beneficiaries enrolled in different levels of education all over the country. Its programs enlist school dropouts, child scavengers, street children, out of school youth, child laborers, children in conflict with the law, children of persons afflicted by leprosy and children of indigenous people. ERDA's educational assistance programs are available from pre-school up to college. Since its inception, ERDA has come to the aid of over 600,000 indigent children all over the country. At 96 years of age, Father Tritz is the world's oldest active Jesuit and, often called "the Mother Teresa of the Philippines" by the late President Cory Aquino, has become an inspiration for people everywhere and an example to follow.Read More