A Distant Education

Project

A Distant Education

Introduction

About 80% of the Filipino poor live in the rural areas

of the country. These are towns located deep in the

mountains and the rice fields.

The population density in the rural parts of the country

is low, and there is a corresponding deficiency in schools

and classrooms. Public school is free,

but families still cannot afford to

send their children due from

complicated network

of reasons.

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With around 100.6 million Filipinos or about 80 percent of

the population trying to survive on P96 ($2) or less per day,

how can a family afford the school uniforms, transportation to

and from school, for school supplies and projects, the

miscellaneous expenses, and the food for the studying?

More than this, with the worsening unemployment problem

and poverty situation, each member of the family is being

expected to contribute to the family income. Most, if not

all, out-of-school children are on the streets

begging, selling cigarettes, candies, garlands,

and assorted foodstuffs or things,

or doing odd jobs.

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Transportation is another big problem. Kids walk 2-3

kilometers or more to and from school every day. They

have to cross rivers and climb hills with their bookbags.

The ones that can afford it take a tricycle, but that is a

luxury. Schools are sometimes too far for the most

remote communities to practically access.

Our Project

Let us see how they manage

going and back to school

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Let us see how they grow…

Poverty causing education to set aside

Or we wanted them to assist with

hope and happiness?

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These are the reasons why we have to consider the need as

a necessity for us to uplift rural distance education.

And so… The MA Education Students of UMAK have

agreed to launch a support for the Distant Education

Assistance Program.

The program will help the needy (50) fifty

poor students of our choice in the

identified remote rural area.

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Assuming Albay is our choice since this is the hottest

issue where people live near Mt. Mayon is at risk and

the students are sacrificing…

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• Albay, Philippines – Public schools near the restive Mount

Mayon in Albay have started employing class shifting and

other interventions to accommodate students who fled

with their families to evacuation centers ahead of a

possible volcanic eruption.

• About 76 public schools in 5 towns and 2 cities in have

been affected since September 15, when Mayon was

placed on Alert Level 3 for showing signs of “relatively

high unrest.” Cities : Ligao and Tabaco

Towns : Santo Domingo,

Malilipot, Guinobatan,

Camalig, and Daraga

Our WORK PLAN

This Call to Strives

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• It is up to us when this project will be

started and hope very soon.

• And it will start from…

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no one else but from …

"Learning could be compromised,

but we don’t want it to be totally

sacrificed."

Ms. Gigi Bobiles

Presenter