A. Cowley & SonsTonga

Our Community

For more than 130 years, ACS has grown alongside Tonga. Supporting our schools, families, charities and community organisations is not separate from our business — it is part of who we are.

130+Years supporting communities across Tonga
TOP $1Mill+Donated supporting causes across Tonga
NationwideSupporting schools and students across all of Tonga
Vaiola HospitalGiving back and supporting the care of our people

2026 · Every school in Tongatapu

Milk donations to schools

Ita and Joseph in their yellow school uniforms with school staff, behind a table stacked with donated cartons of Anchor chocolate milk. A class with their boxes of Anchor chocolate milk. The whole class outside their block with the milk delivery. Students holding hand-made signs reading Welcome to Cowley and Sons Bakery. Milk handed to students from the ACS delivery truck. Milk break in the schoolyard as the delivery is shared out. A school gathered under the Tongan flag with their milk boxes. Students with their boxes of milk at the classroom steps. The whole school gathered around the milk delivery on mufti day. Students at Niutoua with their cartons of milk.

2022 · With Matson · COVID-19 response

Food donations to affected communities

A family food pack laid out: A. Cowley & Sons bread, Anchor milk and butter, rice, tinned tuna and corned beef. A truck loaded with crates of packed food parcels ready for delivery. A masked ACS team member handing a food parcel to a resident during the COVID-19 response. A loaf of bread handed to a young boy at the back of the delivery truck. A food parcel delivered to a family at their home, children watching from the doorway. A father and his daughter with their bread and food parcel.

HTHH 2022 · With Ah Liki Investments

Sharing clean drinking water

A shipping container packed to the roof with bottled water. Cartons of Natural Samoa Water being loaded from the container onto a truck. Cartons of 12 x 1.5 litre Natural Samoa Water stacked on the truck tray. Volunteers unloading packs of drinking water in an affected village. Alfred and Buk, in caps and face masks, handing a pack of bottled water to a smiling child beside the relief tents. A boy carrying his family’s pack of drinking water home.

2021 · In partnership with Labdoo

Supporting digital learning in our schools

Pallets of donated computers, shrink-wrapped in the warehouse, being inspected before delivery. A donated desktop computer being handed over at the Ministry of Education. Ministry of Education representatives and ACS holding donated monitors and computers. The handover meeting, with donated monitors lined up on the table.

2021 · ACS donation

Breakfast for schools

A delivery truck loaded with pallets of Weet-Bix catering packs for the school breakfast donation. An address at the school assembly during the breakfast donation. Students gathered in the school hall. A young girl watching the assembly from the stage. The full school assembly seated in the hall, with the band at the centre. Atiu and Ita with a young girl beside the ACS delivery truck loaded with Weet-Bix and muesli for the breakfast donation. The delivery truck loaded with breakfast packs and toasted muesli, handed over to Ministry representatives.

2020 · With Anchor

Back to school

A student receiving her Anchor back-to-school pack. A student and her family receiving a school pack at the Go Back to School banner. A school pack handed over at the Anchor tent. A winner receiving his school pack at the Go Back to School banner. Tupou College students with their school packs and Anchor drinks.

2020 · Donation to churches

PPE for our communities

Cartons of disposable medical masks handed over beside the shipping container. Cartons being unloaded from the truck and handed over outside the hall. Boxes of masks passed hand to hand from the truck into the building. The handover inside the hall, the congregation gathered behind the stacked cartons. The handover at Kaingafo’ou, cartons of masks laid out at the entrance. Cartons of disposable medical masks stacked on the veranda, ready to be shared out.

2018 · Snacks donation

Snacks for Vaiola Hospital and boarding school kitchens

Cartons of breakfast crackers unloaded from the ACS truck at the school. Students and staff with the delivery of breakfast crackers outside Student Support Services. The kitchen team with the delivery, stacked cartons behind them. Kitchen staff and ACS beside the stacked cartons in the kitchen store.

2017 · With Anchor

School lunch sponsorship

Packed school lunches of sandwiches and Anchor milk, lined up beneath a Goodness Feeds Greatness banner. ACS and Anchor volunteers packing lunches under the marquee at the school. Handing packed lunches to students waiting in line. ACS volunteers in yellow shirts handing packed lunches to students under the marquee, with a cameraman filming behind them. The whole school on the field, every student holding a packed lunch in the air, beneath the Anchor marquee.
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Throughout the year, we hear from schools, churches, sports clubs and community groups across Tonga. Although we cannot support every request, we are always grateful for the opportunity to learn more about the work being done in our communities.

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