Sharing the Light
is a joint project of Children’s Hour, and Pathways to Higher
Education. It aims to rehabilitate public high school libraries to
encourage the young to once again get into the habit of reading. Aside
from the rehabilitation of the libraries, the teacher-librarians will
also be given training while the students will be given a program to
improve their reading and comprehension skills. CHPI is currently
funding the rehabilitation of 50 libraries nationwide.
San Miguel National High School BEFORE
. . .
. . . and AFTER.
Gearing Up Internet
Literacy and access for students, or more popularly known
as GILAS, is a program
of the Ayala Foundation that aims to provide Internet access to all
public high schools in the Philippines.
GILAS is proud to report that they have connected over 1,000 public high schools to date.
The aim is to bring the country closer to an information-literate
society with the connection of 5,789
public high schools to the internet by
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Synergeia Foundation and
their Building a Learning Community Program is another one
of our flagship projects. The program is a bottom-up approach to
improve elementary level students’ reading proficiency in English
through workbook development and provision, teacher-training and active
community engagement both from the Local Government Unit and parents.
The SIBOL
program of the CFC-Educational Foundation Inc. is a holistic preschool
education program designed to prepare incoming elementary students
mentally and physically. It has a strong values-based curriculum,
teacher training, parents’ formation and a supplementary feeding
program. Two schools in Maguindanao are presently being supported by
Children’s Hour.
Kalintad, Buluan, Maguindanao – 40 children
Datu Paglas, Maguindanao – 44 children
The Batang Atikha Saver’s
Club of the Atikha Overseas Workers and Communities Initiative, Inc.
This would be a pioneering project that could address the psychosocial
cost of migration to the children and greatly improve the likelihood of
retention for deviant and misguided children of migrant workers. The
project also intends to inspire these children to aspire for excellence
in education and realize the value of their parents’ blessings. Laguna and Batangas are the first two
project sites that will be funded by CHPI.
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