Hope Builders,

Dream Tracers

Building hope for our nation

by tracing the dreams of our children.

Mission

To deliver sustainable and purposeful reading programs that can shape every reader’s motivation, habit, basic literacy, and aspirations, while at the same time promoting shared accountability with community stakeholders and youth volunteers.

Vision

A nation of empowered, competent, and compassionate readers who are cultivated with conscience and hope for inclusive progress.

Values

Zeal
Service
Integrity

HBDT Christmas Party 2022.mp4

Our Goal

Hope Builders, Dream Tracers (HBDT) is an organization of the youth, for the youth. Its two aims are hope building and dream tracing.

One, it aims to build hope for the nation by empowering its children to dream, achieve, and even excel. It as well aims to build hope for the nation by encouraging the youth to volunteer and join in bringing solutions to societal problems.

Two, HBDT aims to trace the dreams of children through various reading programs. The organization believes in the essentiality of educating every child to let them dream. In this light, they use the power and magic of books and stories as the main tool for educating every child.

HBDT believes that with the right tools and motivation gifted to the children, they can learn, dream, achieve, and excel even on their own.

What we've done

Gabay Pangarap - Antipolo (1).mp4

Antipolo City
December 2019

Gabay Pangarap

Gabay Pangarap is the flagship storytelling and book giving program of HBDT. Usually done annually, this project gifts 100 to 200+ children with their own story books and educational toys-- called dream tracer packages. Through the storytelling session, the children are targeted to be motivated to read and use their own books well, and therefore hopefully start their own reading habits.Often, Gabay Pangarap is a project held for communities with a large number of struggling readers, and/or children with no access to their own story books and even libraries.

2018Burok_burok storytelling with 50 kids.mp4

Burok-burok, Dita, Santa Rosa, Laguna
May - June 2017

12-day Storytelling Project

The 12-day Storytelling Program is a long-term project that HBDT usually conducts during the summer period. In a span of 12 days (or more), a small group of children are provided with a thematic reading program fit for the community and context that the children live in. Often, themes covered in the program lead children to develop good manners, self-care ideas, family values, and community involvement.

By the end of the program, a small store where children can buy different books, food supplies, and school supplies is opened. The children use the incentive points they saved throughout the program as their "money" for the store.

KinaBOOKasan 2020.MP4

Brgy. Kanluran, Santa Rosa, Laguna
July 2020

KinaBOOKasan Project

During the pandemic, the storytelling sessions of HBDT had to be discontinued. Nevertheless, the organization knew that its reading programs shall not stop, and its aim to build a nation of readers shall continue. Hence, its KinaBOOKasan projects were launched.

In this project, KinaBOOKasan packages are gifted to children via house-to-house delivery. Children are provided with 2 new storybooks, complete with enrichment worksheets and school supplies for the worksheet. Additionally, five WIKAHON copies for their vocabulary and reading comprehension are provided. The parents/guardians, or fondly called GABAY, are given a copy of Gabay sa KinaBOOKasan, a booklet that encourages them to be involved in the reading of the children.

Rizal Bayanihan 2020.mp4

Rodriguez, Rizal
November 2020

2020 Crises Response

In March until May of 2020, the organization launched its Bayanihan 1, 2, and 3 which served daily wage earners in Santa Rosa, and as well assisted more than 150 families in NIA Road. At the same time, HBDT was able to assist farmer friends from Rizal as most vegetable goods that were distributed were bought from them at a fair price.

When November came and typhoons badly affected different communities in the Philippines, HBDT focused its attention in sending relief packages to more than 500 people in seven communities of Rodriguez, Rizal.

All these efforts were made possible through the trust and generous donations of people from Laguna, Manila, Mindanao, other parts of the Philippines, and even other neighboring countries.