Bai Laya

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A feminist NGO co-creating with communities in the transformative journey of women and girls, expanding their freedoms and capabilities through education, mobility, care, and safe workspaces.

07/01/2026

As promised, last weekend we were able to give out school supplies to Tagoloanen girls in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. A few months back, Bai Laya held conversations with these girls, asking them of their dreams and wants. Some shared very simple wishes - school supplies like ballpens and erasers.

Through your help and the support of the Bai Laya community we were able to give the school supplies to 15 girl children. Thank you to all who shared the care and love and who made these girls' New Year, a wonderful.

We hope you can continue to journey with us and with community of women and girls this 2026 and beyond.

29/12/2025

Last 23 December 2025, Bai Laya with returned to Calib-Ungan Elementary School to fulfill its promise of a Library Project. We brought on site donated books and the Library Cabinet from DM Lorenzo Builds.

It was in August in 2025 that we first visited Calib-Ungan Elementary School - we met Teacher Eileen then, who showed us the school's lone classroom, the mango tree where kids hold their classes and the other make shift classrooms. Four months after the first visit, we are back bringing with us the Library Cabinet built and donated by DM Lorenzo. With the help of Pinked Gorilla and the locals of Calib-Ungan we were able to install the Library Cabinet, fill them with donated books from the Bai Laya community, and turned them over to Teacher Eileen and Roselle, the Vice President of the Parent-Teacher's Association.

When we arrived, Teacher Eileen was not in the school - we had to call her via messenger to explain the Library Project and to ask her consent to set it up. Even over messenger, we could hear her excitement, just as we could also clearly see the excitement of kids as the cabinet was set up and as the books were arranged.

It took us more than 4 months to return for the Library Project - but it was still worth it - to bring books to these kids, to see their joy in seeing the books lined up for them to access, and to explain that the library is for them. Added bonus was our free drawing session with the kids while the Library Cabinet was being set up.

To Pinked Gorilla and DM Lorenzo, thank you for partnering with Bai Laya for the Library Project. To Calib-Ungan Elementary School led by Teacher Eileen, thank you for your patience and for always welcoming us. To our Bai Laya community, thank you for coming together to share the care with the kids of Calib-Ungan.

Malala says one book, one teacher can change the world, and we agree - and so for Bai Laya's Library Project we hope we can expand further our Library Project - with more books, more Library Cabinets, reaching kids who need them most. Come join us in this journey.

24/12/2025

Weekend before Christmas, Bai Laya together with community volunteers went to Sitio Jesmag, Iba and Calib-Ungan, Zambales for our annual Share the Care this holidays. In Sitio Jesmag, we brought used toys for kids, crayons and drawing materials. We asked kids to draw how their everyday looks like and how they would want their everyday to look like when they are 18 or older. Most showed us their everydays of river and trees, life at home and at school - patch of carrot garden by their grandpa, the river where they swim, cleaning houses, flowers and trees. On their older selves some drew their dream professions - a policeman or a soldier, some drew togas to show their dream of graduating, one girl drew driving a car and being free, while some drew bigger self portraits - filling the entire paper. We also shared a meal of two burgers and juicr and gave used toys - many dolls donated by Karen of CHR and toys from Diego. The kids chose the toy that called to them, by the end of the day we saw the dolls swimming with them in the nearby river and got their own names. The guardians and parents also got to choose used clothes and toiletries to bring home.

At Bai Laya, we hold these annual Share the Care sessions not only to share the care, but also to create safe spaces for kids, especially girl children to create, to dream, and also to share their needs. Some shared their need for school supplies, and the fact that they buy their own uniforms, most we saw walk without slippers.These are the same kids we gave toys and books to several years back and in keeping coming back, we get to know them better and hopefully journey with them, helping expanding their freeedoms to do what they want and be who they want.

To our partners - Thank you for always connecting us with these communities and their leaders. Thank you for making Camp Kuya Coy a safe space for kids to play and dream.

We also thank our Bai Laya community - all of you who made this work by sharing your love and your donations in cash and in kind. A Merry Christmas to all of you and if you want to be a part of this, do reach out - for New Year we will be giving school kits in Bukidnon!

18/12/2025

Bai Laya is honored to share our insights on gender-based violence prevention and response at the Development Academy of the Philippines GAD Webinar, “Equality for All: Women’s Rights and Violence Against Women.”

The conversation echoed a simple truth: when women and men stand together, silence is broken, norms are challenged, and care becomes action. We carry this shared resolve forward—to honor survivors, to end violence against women, and to help shape spaces where dignity, safety, and equality can truly flourish.

17/12/2025

Pasko na! Tara magbahagi ng saya!

This December, Bai Laya continues the gift/toy giving and the library project previosuly under and .

On 20-22 December we will be in Iba and Botolan Zambales.

For Botolan, we will be putting up The Library Project cabinet from DM Lorenzo at the Calib-Ungan Elementary School in partnership with . For this we ask your help in sending children's books our way. This will complete the Library Project cabinet for the students of Calib-Ungan elementary school.

For Iba, we will be visting Sitio Jessmag and just like last year we will be bringing toys and some Christmas get-together meal. For this, we ask for your donation of used toys so we could bring smiles to indigenous kids of Sitio Jessmag. Cash donations are also welcome for the kids' salo-salo.

Lastly, for new year, we will give back to the indigenous girls we talked to last November. They shared their dreams with us, and some very basic needs like erasers and pencils and notebooks for school. For the 15 girls we talked to, we hope to provide a school kit. To sponsor one kit costs PhP 360.

Bai Laya is both old and new; we're building on the work previously under and , and we are also new - focused now on intentionally journeying with women and girls towards freedoms.

For used toys drop off:

Happy Hive
105-A Matimtiman St, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, Philippines
c/o April or Vhin Nora; 09688507108

For cash donations:

Rosanne Marie Aldeguer
Gcash: 09399664348

26/11/2025

Bai Laya stands with the global community on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, calling for a commitment to truly hear the voices of women and girls—whether in the quiet corners of offices where fear silences their truth, or in indigenous communities where the threat of violence can shatter their dreams of education.

Violence can be prevented and eliminated, but only if we listen, if we create spaces where their stories are heard. It is our collective responsibility to act, to stand together with these communities and send a resounding message: it is everyone’s duty to protect, to uplift, and to stop violence in all its forms.

Address

105-A Matimtiman Street , Sikatuna Village
Quezon City
1101

Website

http://www.bailaya.org/

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