• President Cory Aquino Congratulates BOOKS for the BARRIOS

      President Cory Aquino Congratulates BOOKS for the BARRIOS Founder Nancy Harrington for Ten Years of Service to Aid Philippines Public Education Development  — Malacanang Palace, Manila, Philippines, 1991. BOOKS for the BARRIOS has since then shipped 16… Read More

  • Help us reach Them

    What a coincidence!! The article from National Geographic magazine these little girls happened to open was about them! They are the ” Badjao tribe” in Jolo, ­Philippines. Thanks to the relentless efforts put in by Books for the… Read More

  • Quality Education and Teacher Training – Nation building for a true democracy.

    To date BftB has transformed 70 impoverished ­Barrio (village) into ” Model of ­Excellence”schools. The program has been instituted by the Philippine Department of Education from 2001. Member sites are tracked and monitored continuously. From 2001 all other… Read More

  • Make a positive impact

    Be a champion of a noble cause. This young boy first came to us as 5th grader with his class fieldtrip. The empowering and learning experience he had while he was here never left him. Eight years later… Read More

  • Reconstruction of schools post Typhoon Haiyan

      The recent typhoon has devastated schools in the Philippines. BOOKS for the BARRIOS is concentrating on efforts to find sponsors to fund our ongoing humanitarian disaster relief operations throughout the Philippines. As the instituted action agency of… Read More

About Us

  BOOKS for the BARRIOS (BftB) is an all ­volunteer non-profit organization( 501(c)(3), Tax ID # 68 O241582) that began in 1981 and operates out of its headquarters in the San Francisco East Bay, in Walnut Creek,  California. BftB… Read More

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They Need Our Help

The Philippines is a nation of children. Blessed with immersion in English as a medium of instruction, the twenty million eager pupils of the public school system are poised to achieve literacy in order to contribute to the… Read More

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Please Donate

As we enter our thirty-third year of global operations in support of the eager pupils of the remote public schools of the barrios, the volunteers of BOOKS for the BARRIOS are happy to report that we continue our legacy of… Read More

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