Kimberly Hutchinson served as a Peace Corps volunteer in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental from 2013-2015, working with the City Social Welfare and Development Office's Mobile Education for Street Children program. She taught street children rudimentary education concepts to encourage school enrollment, initiated a livelihood program for mothers, and organized youth volunteers. Through her efforts, street children enrolled in school, mothers gained job skills, youth were trained to assist with mobile education, and a learning center was established.

1. KIMBERLY HUTCHINSON
CITY SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE,
LGU
SAN CARLOS CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL
2013 -2015
PEACE CORPS PORTFOLIO
Peace Corps Philippines
Volunteer Handbook
2013 Edition

2. Kimberly Hutchinson – Batch 272 CYF

3. Site Placement Background
Kimberly Hutchinson was assigned to the local government unit of San Carlos City in the
City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWD) as a volunteer in the Mobile Education
for Street Children Program. San Carlos is a city in Negros Occidental, one of two provinces
located on the island of Negros, situated in the Visayas Region. The San Carlos CSWD began
its Mobile Education Project in 2010 as a way of promoting accessible education in an
informal setting to children who do not have the opportunity to attend school. The purpose
of the program is to expose children to formal educational concepts in a non-formal setting
to introduce and encourage learning. The goal is for this population to gain a rudimentary
educational foundation formerly never predisposed to, and with this knowledge have the
confidence to enroll and be successful in formal schooling. The participants range in ages 5-
14 and the program reaches out to anywhere between 50-100 children.
Kimberly’s responsibilities at the CSWD were to organize and teach the street children on
formal learning concepts extending but not limited to ABC’s, math, English, and reading.
She introduced life skills, assisted in activity development and implementation, identified
donors for feeding programs, and organized and trained youth volunteers to participate in
the mobile education classes.

4. Mobile Education for Street Children

5. PCV Activities and Accomplishments
 Provided daily informal educational instruction for street children
introducing rudimentary education concepts to encourage school
enrollment
 Initiated a livelihood program for identified mother’s of selected street
children, complementing the livelihood assistance with an entrepreneur
seminar
 Co-facilitated life skills for the street children, girls at Balay sa Nazareth
Center Home for Girls, and youth volunteers
 Co-facilitated advocacy sessions for two ABK3 youth camps
 Coached a U13 boys soccer team in 2013
 Organized and trained youth volunteers and CSWD staff on the
management of the mobile education program
 Participated as a member of the Barangay Council for the Protection of
Children
 Received a grant to acquire equipment and material for the San Carlos City
Learning Center
 Co-developed learning center activity schedule, rules and policies

6. Livelihood Assistance and Entrepreneurship with the
mother’s of the mobile education students

7. Mobile Education in Action

9. Training of Youth Trainers

10. TOT in ACTION
Youth volunteers teaching mobile
education participants Peace Corps Volunteer Kim Hutchinson
training youth volunteers on teaching
techniques

11. Outputs
 8 street children enrolled and began formal schooling in grade levels
ranging from kindergarten to grade 7
 2 mobile street education participants received honor awards during the
2014-2015 academic school year
 22 mothers completed training and gained their certification as
manicure/pedicurists for an alternative livelihood
 41 youth participated in a training of trainers for the management of
mobile education, and 24 youth are active volunteer helpers in the mobile
education for street children program
 8 City Social Welfare and Development workers were trained in project
management, and the 8 developed and implemented a vision, mission, and
goals for the mobile education project for 2015
 46 children participated in life skills activities topics covering health and
hygiene, bullying and teamwork
 $2,434 USD were allotted through the Small Project Assistance grant to
purchase learning equipment and materials for the San Carlos City
Learning Center

12. Secondary Project
The Grassroots Participatory Budgeting Fund enabled the San Carlos City Social
Welfare and Development Office to identify and develop a project to construct a
learning center, specifically catering to children in conflict with the law, children at risk
and children with disadvantaged families. The funds covered the construction and
maintenance of the building, however it did not extend to the materials and equipment
to be placed inside, the fundamental elements for capacity building amongst its users.
In coordination with her supervisor, CSWD staff and selected street children, Kimberly
identified equipment and material that would enable the center to meet its purpose as
a place where children will have access to learn, grow, and play.
As a part of the learning center development, Kimberly and her counterpart identified
youth volunteers committed to dedicating their time and energy to work with the street
children by participating in a three day training of trainers camp where they learned
and later implemented methods and skills to work with the children. To supplement
the training of youth trainers Kimberly, in working relation with her counterpart,
conducted a two day training with City Social Welfare and Development staff
appointed to the mobile education program on project management for the learning
center.

13. Learning Center

14. Learning Center: July 2015

15. Small Project Assistance (SPA) Grant: 107,100 php
Two Computer Servers
4 Guitars
1 Keyboard Player
1 Speaker
Table games, Books, Hoola Hoops,
Sporting Balls, Printer, Whiteboard

16. Project Proposals
 Training of trainers youth camp Child Fund: 60,000php
 Learning center Small Project Assistance (SPA) Grant :
107,000php
 In-kind donations: Books for peace, manicure/pedicure sets,
feeding programs
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