Laying the first brick
Why First Brick exists, what we will do first, and what we will not do.
Every school begins with a first brick.
We are a foundation in the making for children in Southeast Asia. We start with learning, add the everyday support that keeps a child in class, and grow toward the roads, buildings and schools a community needs.
Every gift will be traceable on a public blockchain.
Founding stage. We are not taking donations yet. Giving opens once the foundation is registered, and every transaction will be public from the first one.
Learn, live, build
Three steps, in this order. We take the next one only when the one before it works and a local partner asks for it.
Learn
Tutoring, books, school supplies, reading corners and scholarships, run with local teachers.
Live
Meals, clean water, health checks and a safe way to get to school. The things that decide whether a child keeps showing up.
Build
Classrooms, libraries, toilets, safe paths and, when a community asks for it, a whole school.
Proof, not promises
Charity runs on trust. We want ours to run on records anyone can check.
- A public wallet
- Gifts in stablecoins and crypto go to one published address. Anyone can follow them on a block explorer.
- Spending you can trace
- Each payout is linked to a receipt, the partner who received it and what it paid for.
- Reports people can read
- Every quarter, a short report in English and Korean, with the on-chain record next to it.
Card and bank gifts will be welcome too, and logged on the same record. How transparency will work
How we work
Local people lead
Teachers, parents and community groups on the ground decide what is needed. We fund and support; we don't parachute in.
Children are never the attraction
No orphanage visits, no short trips to play with kids, no volunteer left alone with a child. We send skills, not sightseers.
Every photo has consent
We photograph with a guardian's written consent, never at a child's lowest moment, and we never publish where a child lives.
Small first, then bigger
One community and one partner before we take on a second. Buildings come only after the programs inside them work.
Where we are going
- Oct–Dec 2026 Now
Founding
Charter, advisers, a first local partner, and the paperwork to register as a nonprofit.
- Jan 2027
Public launch
The journal and social channels go live and the founding circle opens.
- 2027
First programs
One community, one partner: learning support and everyday basics, with the first on-chain reports.
- 2028 onward
Build
Classrooms, libraries, water and safe routes to school, built with the communities we already know.
Field journal
Notes, photos and numbers from the work, posted as it happens.
Partners
CHAINBRIEFCHAINBRIEF, a crypto news outlet, is our media partner and will report our progress gift by gift.
We are looking for a first local partner in Southeast Asia: a school, community group or registered NGO already working with children.
Lay a brick with us
Join the founding circle and we'll write to you when giving opens, when we pick our first community, and when there's a way to help that fits what you do.
Join the founding circle