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Event Beneficiary: HANDS ON MANILA
http://www.handsonmanila.org.ph/
Health and Nutrition Projects
Hands On Manila (HOM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing members with diverse, flexible volunteer opportunities that address the needs of the community. Membership in HOM is free and open to all interested persons, groups and corporations.
Since HOM was established, feeding programs and nourishment missions have been conducted regularly. One example is The ‘Breakfast Club” - conducted every Saturday and recruited an all time high of 740 volunteers in 2008, making a total of 3,050 volunteers in the past 7 years translating to 9,150 hours. Over 3, 200 street kids benefit from this feeding project.
Because of the project’s popularity, a spin off volunteer project was made “Meriendamates” and “Snackenistas”, both feeding projects for street children in two different areas, drawing 310 volunteers and translating to 930 hours and 960 children fed in 2008 alone.
Sports and Recreation
This year, 2 HOM sports development programs went full blast. One program, the “Scoring Points”, sports clinic, promoted exercise through basketball and other ball games while the “Smashing Kids” badminton clinic benefited 750 children from Bahay ni Maria, Holy Family and Pangarap Shelter. These sports programs drew out 200 volunteers, translating to 600 volunteer service hours.
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Event Beneficiary: 57-75 Movement
http://57-75.org/home/
Education
57-75 is a private-sector led movement that aims to reverse the education crisis through focused interventions and school-community action, towards system-wide performance improvements. It emphasizes the value of community involvement and how it can unlock local resources and energies for improving the performance of public schools and their students, while making the schools more accountable. 57-75 supports the DepEd’s BESRA: #1, school-level stakeholders improve their own schools continuously; and #3, influential social institutions and key social processes are engaged by DepEd to support national scale attainment of desired learning outcomes.
The numbers are symbolic: “57? is the national average score of public elementary school students in the National Achievement Test, indicating the situation our public educational system is currently in, while “75?- though commonly known as the passing mark - symbolizes the state of education which we want to achieve in 5 years. The reversal of numbers symbolizes what the campaign is trying to do:
TURNING THINGS AROUND, even the way we support the public education system.
Partners in the campaign are the Ateneo Center for Educational Development, Foundation for Worldwide People Power, the League of Corporate Foundations, Philippine Business for Education, Philippine Business for Social Progress and the Synergeia Foundation.
NEED FOR A MORE STRATEGIC PRIVATE SECTOR RESPONSE TO THE EDUCATION SITUATION
Over the years, the country’s public schools have failed to equip children with basic competencies. The private sector has tried to respond to this problem, bringing significant resources into a wide variety of efforts, bringing meaningful change into the lives of many students, teachers and school communities. But the problem is huge and complex. There is a growing realization that the private sector must make more strategic use of its resources, using these to create not just islands of improvement, but ultimately system-wide change.
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