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CSR Day 2026: seven projects across the Philippines
On July 3, 2026, hundreds of Full Scale employees traded their keyboards for shovels, paint rags, dog food, and school supplies. Here is everything the team did, city by city.
The day at a glance
Seven employee-led projects in Cebu, Bohol, Manila, and Davao, covering all four of our pillars. Remote teammates who could not reach a site ran their own volunteer work at home, because no act of kindness is too small.
Computer donation at Passerelles Numériques
Passerelles Numériques (PN) takes talented students from families who could never afford an IT education and gives them a scholarship, housing, life-skills training, and a real path into the tech industry. It is one of our favorite organizations in Cebu for a simple reason: we have hired its graduates. Several PN alumni are Full Scale engineers today.
This year we donated computers to PN's learning programs and delivered them ourselves. Volunteers spent the day on site, assembling furniture, setting up the machines, and meeting the current scholars who will learn on them. The students welcomed the team with a performance, and the visit ended with a ribbon cutting for the new equipment.
The math on this one is easy. Scholars need machines to learn on, and the machines we dropped off will train students who may sit across from us in a job interview a few years from now. That is not a feel-good theory. It has already happened.
Learning Lab clean-up at Cebu City National Science High School
Cebu City National Science High School is home to some of the brightest students in Cebu, many from families with limited resources who count on scholarships to reach college. We built the Full Scale Collaborative Learning Lab there years ago, stocked it with donated computers, and some of the school's graduates have since built careers at Full Scale.
A learning space is only useful if it works. So this year's team went back to clean the lab, service every computer, organize the space, and make sure it is ready for the next batch of students.
Donating equipment is the easy part. Showing up years later to maintain it is what makes the donation real, and we plan to keep doing exactly that.
Bamboo planting with the Jaclupan farmers
Jaclupan sits in the hills above Talisay City, in a watershed that helps supply water to Metro Cebu. The area deals with soil erosion and seasonal flooding, and the local farmers who care for the land rely on volunteers to keep reforestation moving.
Full Scale volunteers spent the day planting bamboo alongside those farmers. Bamboo is the right tool for the job: it grabs the soil, cuts erosion, and strengthens the watershed as the groves mature.
Nobody will see the payoff this year, and that is fine with us. The bamboo planted on CSR Day will be protecting that river system long after the photos are forgotten.
Feeding, clean-up, and donations at Island Rescue Organization
Island Rescue Organization (IRO) shelters hundreds of abandoned, neglected, and abused dogs and cats across Cebu. Feeding and caring for that many rescued animals is a daily grind that runs almost entirely on donations and volunteer hands.
Our team came with dog food, cat food, and cleaning supplies, then got to work: scrubbing kennels, cooking a giant batch of food, helping with feeding, and giving the residents the attention they rarely get enough of.
No single visit fixes a shelter's workload. But a truck full of supplies and a day of extra hands buys the caretakers room to breathe, and the dogs did not complain about the company either.
School supplies for children of fisherfolk families
On Cabilao Island in Loon, Bohol, most families make their living from fishing. The work feeds their communities, but with the cost of living rising, school supplies become one more bill that competes with dinner.
Full Scale volunteers rode a boat out to the island and handed out notebooks, writing materials, and classroom essentials to the children of local fishing families, just in time for the new school year. Then they stayed a while, talking with the kids and their parents.
A notebook is a small thing. A kid starting the school year with everything they need, and the knowledge that somebody outside their island is rooting for them, is not.
Hour of AI with DEVCON Kids
Through our partnership with DEVCON Kids, the Manila team joined the Hour of AI Philippines initiative at Pasig Elementary School, one of only two public schools in Pasig City with a Special Science Program.
Full Scale volunteers ran hands-on AI workshops for grade 4, 5, and 6 students. Before the activities, they talked about what they actually do at Full Scale and what a career in software development looks like. Then the kids got to play: Google Quick, Draw! and Teachable Machine showed them how AI learns and recognizes patterns.
Most of these students had never trained a model before. Watching a machine learn from your own drawings at ten years old is the kind of thing that turns into a career fifteen years later. Some of our own engineers can point to a moment exactly like it.
Renewing our adoption of C#, plus a stop at Bantay Hayop Davao
In 2022, Full Scale symbolically adopted C#, a Southern Philippine Hawk-Eagle under the care of the Philippine Eagle Foundation. A software company sponsoring a raptor named C# was too perfect to pass up, and the partnership has held ever since. The foundation protects the country's birds of prey through rescue, conservation research, and public education, work that gets harder every year as habitats shrink.
For CSR Day 2026 the Davao team renewed the adoption and visited the Philippine Eagle Center. On the same trip, they stopped at Bantay Hayop Davao with donated dog food, cat food, and pet supplies for its rescued animals.
From an endangered hawk-eagle to a shelter full of strays, the Davao team covered both ends of animal welfare in one day.
One day a year, and everything around it
CSR Day is the headline, but the partnerships behind it run all year: the learning lab we maintain, the scholars who become engineers, the eagle we keep adopting. See how the whole program works, and why we do it.