This document discusses a distant education project to help poor students in rural areas of the Philippines access education. Around 80% of poor Filipinos live in rural areas with low population densities, resulting in a lack of schools. Families cannot afford the costs of uniforms, supplies, food and transportation required to attend existing schools. The project will provide assistance to 50 poor students in an identified remote rural area, starting with students affected by the erupting Mount Mayon volcano in Albay province. Support may include assistance with costs of attending school to help ensure learning continues despite their difficult circumstances.

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2. Project

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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.

6. 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

11. This Call to Strives
Our WORK PLAN

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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 …

14. "Learning could be compromised,
but we don’t want it to be totally
sacrificed."

15. Ms. Gigi Bobiles
Presenter