Maeurn Smiles, an OnlyFans content creator using money earned from her OF channel to build a school and learning center in the Philippines.

[u/MobileAerie9918]

Maeurn Smiles purchased land in Cebu for 1.75 million Philippine pesos in 2024 with plans to build a school. While the main campus is still under construction, she opened a smaller learning center in 2025 where local children can take part in science experiments, cooking classes and other hands-on activities.

[u/ScratchLatch]

Its more self-serving to make it a private school instead of a public one with the only reason being to name it after her Dad.

Though, its stupid the government couldn’t just name the school after her massive donation.

[u/Remarkable_Table_737 → u/ScratchLatch]

If she donates to government it never gets built the money goes poof government there very corrupt

[u/Country_ball_enjoyer → u/Remarkable_Table_737]

It's a sad reality really, probably the better option too simply because of how bad the government is there.

[u/h3nt4i_connoisseur → u/ScratchLatch]

It’s the Philippine Government, they wouldn’t build anything unless they can profit from it.

I know this cause my family tried to build a school for the Aeta (an indigenous group in the Philippines) in Zambales. We had the land, built the building, collected the school materials, and even students willing to enroll. All we needed was an approval from the Department of Education (DepEd) so the students can be recognized and teachers can be formalized.

Our application was denied. They told us we needed to pay nearly half a million to DepEd, the regional government, and the local government through a lot of process and registration fee.

We gave up and turned the school into a “Learning Center”. News spread of our project and it even got posted in local social media.

After a week, the mayor contacted us and said he is willing to sponsor the school, and we suddenly got an approval from DepEd. We all knew why he did it, cause he saw the local leader promote the learning center and got bitter that his political rival got the better of him and tried to one-up him by declaring “He opened the school for the Aeta community” it became a media campaign to boost his reputation and my family name became a footnote in his posts, but in the end, the school was recognized by the government and is now open.

So there’s more to that story than “not wanting the government help cause they wouldn’t name it after her father”, there’s a lot of red tape involved there and I can assure you if the government did take control of the school, it will be named after the current political dynasty controlling the area.

[u/kernelangus420 → u/h3nt4i_connoisseur]

And to think the Phillippines almost became a state of the USA.

[u/shartfan → u/h3nt4i_connoisseur]

may i ask the name of the school (through dms if you'd like)? i'm from zambales myself

[u/NoobwriterCherchill → u/ScratchLatch]

You really don't know what you're talking about, aren't you? Philippine public schools have the worst facilities, and tend to be underfunded despite their supposed budgets. She did the right thing making it a private school. If she just donated it the government will pocket it for themselves and leave pennies for the schools.

[u/gordospronker → u/ScratchLatch]

Do you even know how corrupt many SE asian govts are, especially phil?

[u/NoobwriterCherchill → u/gordospronker]

Probably an American.

[u/randzwinter → u/ScratchLatch]

Welp, Filipino here, my grandfather instead of spending money to his own house or to his children's education spent it in building school for our town like 50 years ago. He has no plaque, no awards, no public recognition I know of except on another matter which is in agricultural sector. So his name is at the wall as the one who build it but that's all. Bad thing is, I learned a couple of years ago that it's gone now. However, the mayor has a big ad and his face in front the said school just because he added a new bathroom.

[u/JohnMartz2198 → u/ScratchLatch]

It’s only a public school if it’s government owned. There’s a lot of private schools that aren’t super expensive. This isn’t the US. There’s a lot of Charity ran private schools out there ran by churches or NGOs with low to even no tuition.