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16 July 2024

Market Day

We held a market day shopping experience for our students who selected good quality clothes for themselves. Special thanks to Macquarie staff who ran the market day. Special thanks to Latter Days Saints who provided insulation and patched up the holes in our roof for our multi-purpose hall. ...

21 March 2024

Fire leaves 652 families homeless

A fire broke out leaving 652 families homeless with only the clothes on their back. Upskills social services team sprung to action and conducted a needs assessment for every family so the relief aid could be targeted - see the video for the update. ...

10 October 2023

PCF Corporate Gift Flyer

Festive gifts that keep on giving Perfect for corporate gifting this festive season, we have a range of unique PCF products for businesses to select for multi-purchase orders. Offering sustainable and beautifully crafted gifts to your clients and colleagues this Christmas is great for the ...

1 October 2023

Purple News 2023

We are so pleased to announce that this year's edition of the Purple News is now available to download from the resources section. The Purple News is your annual update on all things Purple and this year contains updates of our projects in the Philippines We have included our ...

11 July 2022

20th Anniversary Shopping

All our products are handmade with love by mothers in our livelihood programme. This initiative started when we saw an increasing number of them struggling to find a stable source of income. As they are already familiar with recycling work after living in a dumpsite for years, we decided to create ...

28 March 2022

PURPLE COMMUNITY FUND UKRAINE APPEAL

HANDMADE SUNFLOWER BROOCHES FOR SALE We are 100% committed to helping Filipino families suffering through poverty and we also want to help Ukrainian families through their crisis. Sunflowers are the Ukrainian national flower and have decided to make some handmade sunflower brooches to raise ...

28 March 2022

Meet Rose Bell

PCF scholars strongly value our gift of education, as they know it will help create a path towards the life they want for themselves and their families. Rose Bell is one of our successful graduates, however the start of her journey was tough. She had to quit school due to ...

21 January 2022

Christmas Gift for all Day 2021

Thank YOU so much for helping us give the gift of food again this Christmas. We were able to give a total of 938 Christmas food packs which benefitted 4,690 family members with food for Christmas. Please click here to read the full report and testimonials from the families you've helped. It's the ...

9 June 2021

New Community Farms

. We are so excited to have started two farms in the rural areas where families from the Tondo dumpsites were relocated to. 200 families were selected based on their needs and earning capacity to be part of the communal farming projects. What’s been so fun is to see how the young people ...