Our world today faces four greatest enemies: poverty, corruption, ignorance and violence. The importance of education can not be overemphasized. Though the Philippines is considered as having the highest literacy rate among Asian countries, the Autonomous Region I Muslim Mindanao has the highest illiteracy rate in the country.

Such disparities raise troubling questions. Who is at fault? Is society as a whole to blame? Is the government to be blamed or are the Muslims at fault as well? More importantly, how can we narrow this wide gap between the rich and the poor?

High unemployment, systematic economic injustice, violence, sex trading, and immorality plague the country. Seeking unity through education, this new generation hopes that new circumstances will fill hearts with love so that no room remains for hatred. Indeed, some of the spiritual and political leaders appear to benefit from the current state of affairs. Someday, their constituents will certain wonder if their leaders have betrayed then into further exploitation in exchange for personal and political gain. How can we create a positive and functioning social consensus? If we want to work for a better future for these struggling people, we must begin with the moral upbringing and education of young people.

Minority Care International believes that quality education for all underprivileged people will result in better living standards and thus better citizens. Further, we believe that the nurturing of life skills – problem-solving skills as well as creativity and critical thinking – combats violence and other ills brought on poverty.

Minority Care International is determined to offer hope, because hope can change everything.

The key to alleviating poverty, violence, and illiteracy is an education. Education is a good habit which no power can destroy, no kinship can enslave. It is the transmission of civilization. Once a person is lifted up by education, the prospects for a decent job and income will follow along with improved social status and the chance to become a good citizen. Such a citizen will seek to resolve disputes in a civilized manner instead of with violence.

A good education will prepare them to be a better person in the future. A nation progresses dependent upon the education are always ready for progress while those that ignore education are always ready for progress while those that ignore education make it difficult to take steps forward.

It believes the underprivileged can raise up a generation with power, strength, passion, and intelligence if they have role models and opportunities. Trained and educated properly, they can get out of poverty, can overcome obstacles, and can acquire a mind that promises to seek ways to bring order to their world and an enlightened heart that seeks peace rather than conflict.

Poverty causes all sorts of social problems. Today millions of people live in poverty while a few enjoy luxury. Corruption is both a primary cause of poverty in the Philippines and also hinders its elimination. Unemployment has skyrocketed into a recession, people are dying of starvation, little girls are exposed to sex trading, and many children drop out of school because they cannot afford to continue. And, yet, the Philippine government busies itself fighting over whether the president should serve one or more terms rather than focusing on the plight of its poor majority whose hopeless young girls go abroad to work as sex slaves after losing all faith in their own country’s future.

Poverty has become a natural breeding ground for corruption because of social and economic inequities. Corruption in the public sector misuses public office for private gain, accelerating conditions of poverty for the underprivileged. Corruption distorts the economy and legal policy frameworks to allow the few to benefit more than others because there is unfair distribution of governments resources. So far one in the Philippine government has put forward a plan to help fight against corruption.

Corruption adds another layer of misery to poverty. This has major impact on family structure and thus on children. Fighting against corruption means fighting against poverty; the two go hand in hand in the Philippines. Many of the underprivileged people told me that they do not have money to pay bribes they have no access to government services. When there is an unequal distribution of government goods and services, the poor suffer the most because they can not get these resources without paying bribes. Ironically, most of the lower income families pay a higher proportion of their incomes in bribes to corrupt officials than do the rich. Sometimes police demand payment for an imaginary traffic violation or high ranking government officials take large cuts of money from the public services and projects such as roads or schools for their own use. It is true that corruption exists in all countries, but in the Philippines it is rampant, and it affects the poor more than others.

Minority Care International believes that quality education for all underprivileged people will result in better living standards and thus better citizens. Further, we believe that the nurturing of life skills – problem-solving skills as well as creativity and critical thinking – combats violence and the other ills brought on by poverty. Minority Care International determined to offer hope, because hope can change everything.

Mentoring Mission is therefore the key to eliminate the poverty, inspires youth to be free and teaches them how to be servant, modest, humble leader.