Volunteer for the Visayans is collecting donations for rural schools in the Philippines. These schools lack all basic resources and educational materials. The primary schools in the most rural barangays are just a simple school building with two or three classrooms, if there is a primary school at all. In most schools, only one of the two classrooms is occupied because of the lack of teachers, so classes are usually multi grade, with 40 students, one teacher, and no supplies. Often the class is just first and second graders, because there is no teacher for the third grade. The third grade students are sent to the school in the town proper which can be up to 5 or 6 kilometer walk.

Unfortunately, more often than not, the kids stop going to school in order to help their families on the farm so that their family has food to eat.

In Cang-gumbang Primary School, in Palo, Leyte, there is one teacher with 38 students, no pencils, no paper, and a ratio of 1:5 books to students. With no supplies, the teacher reads fairy tale stories to the children from a sheet she brings with her. These children come from rural families where their parents can't even afford to supply their child with a pencil.

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