Call for Donations: Donation Match for the Food Security Project and Need-Based Scholarships

A good friend and generous benefactor of Silliman University (SU) will match peso-for-peso and dollar-for-dollar donations raised for the Food Security Project and Need-Based Scholarships.  

The University invites those who are interested in helping financially challenged students to make a donation and make a difference in their lives with assistance for a healthy meal and school fees.

The Food Security Project

The SU Food Security Project (similar to a Soup Kitchen) was started in the first semester of S.Y. 2022-2023 to meet the needs of students who come to class even on an empty stomach. For some of our students, while tuition is covered by scholarships, provision for food from parents and guardians continues to be intermittent as their livelihoods slowly recover with the economy. Currently, some faculty and staff help out by sharing their lunch with these students. In-kind (i.e. eggs and vegetables) and cash donations are received from the Silliman community, alumni, and friends.

The SU Soup Kitchen Food Security Project for Students is envisioned to ensure that financially challenged students can be provided with lunch during school days and that no one goes hungry. Students who are properly identified based on their need for this project can avail themselves of a free one-dish complete nutritious lunch from Monday to Friday at the SUACONA Open Student Center at Oriental Hall.

The “Soup Kitchen” lunch meal is prepared by the Nutrition and Dietetics students as part of their course requirement and is sustained by committed and compassionate student, faculty and staff volunteers (servers) and by the generous contribution/s of kindhearted donors. 

​Need-Based Scholarships

Individuals, groups, and organizations can make a donation for Need-Based Scholarships, a grant which seeks to provide bridging support to financially challenged, high-performing continuing students in their second-year to fourth-year level. Priority is given to students in their last two semesters in college. A student must have at least a QPA of 3.6 or better to qualify for this grant.

Need-Based Scholarships support the following needs:

1. Tuition
2. Board and lodging
3. School-related expenses, such as:

1. Thesis and research-related requirements
2. Internship uniform
3. Teaching aids for Education students
4. Equipment required for students in allied sciences programs
5. Graduation-related expenses

How to donate

Cash Donations may be made directly to Silliman University (payee) via any of the banks listed below:

Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI)
Perdices Branch, Dumaguete City
Dollar Account: 1084-0273-47 | BOPIPHMM

Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI)
San Jose Branch, Dumaguete City
Peso Account: 9215-8032-25 | BOPIPHMM

Banco de Oro (BDO)
Silliman Campus Branch, Dumaguete City
Peso Account: 0080400-000-63 | BNORPHMM

For the University to trace donations deposited in any of these banks, please observe the following:

1. Email a PDF of the validated deposit slip/transaction advice to [email protected] and [email protected];
2. Write the name of the program as the email’s subject (Example: “Need-Based Scholarships Donation” or “The Food Security Project Donation”), and;
3. Indicate in the email:

(a) the purpose of the deposit;
(b) full name of the donor, and;
(c) address and contact number of the donor

Through the Office of the Vice President for Development, Enterprise, and External Affairs, SU will issue official receipts to donors.

For inquiries, e-mail [email protected], or call +63 35 420 1901 local 223/224.