Gawad Kalinga (GK) has a sports program called SipaG. The Covid-19 pandemic shook the whole world and one of the sectors greatly disrupted is the education sector. The Philippine education shifted from traditional face-to-face learning to blended learning. To kids who opted to continue their studies in blended learning, we seek to support them in their online class or modular studies, and athletic training sessions to keep them abreast.
GK has a youth program called SipaG. Its participants are kids from 6~17 years old within or without our GK villages and marginalized neighborhood communities. As they grow into adulthood, the program mentored them to become youth leaders using the power of sports discipline. According to the data gathered, 90.9 percent of Filipino children aged 10 appear to be in a situation of learning poverty, and need to catch up in basic education. This project aims to support the struggling GK kids.
We seeks to create a venue that combine the power and discipline of sports in promoting education. In our youth center we provide an internet access where the kids can borrow provided laptops/gadgets. In the Philippines, internet access is not freely accessible that make it financially challenging for some of our student. Our young leaders are trained to mentor and tutor younger kids every Tuesday afternoon and Saturday morning for 2 hours before they attend their futsal/football training.
The project will solve the learning poverty of the kids in the program. The youth hub will become the safe venue where no one will bully them if the were left behind in studies, a venue where they will appreciate education and sports. The project will directly support around 50 varsity scholars we have and to extend assistance to the 1,000 playing kids in the program.
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