Welcome to Connie Madson's Website!

Jane is a lovely person. Hers is the most efficient and progressive foundation I have seen so far. She is really making a difference here. In the settlements around the school and Smokey Mountain, both parents and children know her and are overjoyed to see her. If there is one person in the world who could make you believe in yourself, and that everything has a silver lining, it’s Jane Walker. She uses wonderful terms of endearment, such as “my love.” The children, the teachers, the janitors, etc. are all recipients of this facet of kindness.	Andy Gudgeon was a professor for many years in the UK. He is retired and now settled in the Philippines with his family. He is selflessly putting all his talent and intellect into helping Filipinos. Andy is very quirky, imaginative, and efficient. He never runs out of ideas. His children and wife are completely enamored with him.	Jane taking us on a tour of one of the settlements around Smokey Mountain. As Andy would say, “Circumstances are very miserable, but the children are smiling.” It makes all of us smile too. PCF has two water filtration systems: one in the school and one at the Pier 18 dumpsite. Everyone can get clean water for free. It really makes a difference, seeing as a lot of health risks come from drinking contaminated water.


It’s a hard life to live in a place like Smokey Mountain, Tondo. To quote from Jane’s website, “Their families are unable to provide for even their own basic needs, making children bear the full weight of adulthood on their shoulders. Children as young as 5 years of age understand that if they don’t work, they don’t eat and if they can’t eat, they could die.”

Jane started a school for the kids of Smokey Mountain in Tondo.

The system she set up is very impressive. They have a complete school with a computer room, library, clinic, and cafeteria.


The children are very happy, well behaved, and happy to learn.


Jane also started out several livelihood programs, employing the parents of the children who go to her school. They make aprons, lunch bags, using reused and recycled materials. They make jewelry out of shells, beads. They make stuffed toys, and printing to customize ceramics. You can shop at their online store. Your purchases will help support the schools and livelihood programs. They also have a small but efficient clothing manufacturing unit which makes the uniforms and can be contracted out to produce other clothing as well. I am going to use Jane’s sewers for the clothing line which I started, to raise funds for different foundations, ranging from fundations for victims of child prostitution, orphanages, and other child welfare projects.
PCF also collects city waste and hauls it back to a materials recycling plant for proper segregation and packing, which is then sold to a paper recycling factory.	PCF feeds over 400 children twice a day, and at the end of every Friday gives them rations to take home to their family.	Jane and I touring the construction site for the new school. Jane has already put up four schools, including the school in Tondo near Smokey Mountain, and is starting a fifth school. The construction is already under way.
This is a computer graphic rendition of how the new school will look like. It will be constructed out of recycled shipping containers, and will have 29 classrooms specially designed to stay cool even in the heat of the summer season.	The new school is also situated near Smokey Mountain, on a government housing project called ‘Paradise Heights.’ The National Housing Authority allowed PCF to use this land to construct the new school.	PCF still lacks many of the raw materials, and greatly appreciates your donations. Jane envisions a school large enough to provide education to every child who works at Smokey Mountain and the Pier 18 dumpsite, and help eliminate child labor.