PUSO SA PUSO EDUKASYON, INC.“Dearly Beloved, teach all nations, especially the children, to know the true God and him whom he sent Jesus Christ.”
- Thoughts of Fr. Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan

Projects



TheyDREAM: A Mission To Change Lives Through Education

They DREAM - Trailer from Karol SDS on Vimeo.

         Puso Sa Puso Edukasyon, Inc. in partnership with Km8 Productions present an in-depth view of ALSA BUHAY, the main project of our organization with its mission to change lives through education. Full video below.


Part 1

They DREAM (Part 1) from Karol SDS on Vimeo.

Part 2

They DREAM (Part 2) from Karol SDS on Vimeo.



Alternative Learning System Approach: Bridging Unlimited Hope for the Advancement of Youth

         Alsa in the Filipino language means to “lift up, or carry”, while Buhay means “life”. These words are rarely used in conjunction in the Filipino language, and yet used together as here, they capture with uncanny precision the goal of the project: To uplift the future lives of Filipino youth by way of education.

         We, Puso Sa Puso Edukasyon Inc. set up this educational project in the Parola slum of Manila to offer people a way out of structural poverty. As it is not educational institute as such that are lacking in Manila, we focus on assisting slum children to take the Accreditation and Equivalency Examination (the equivalent of a long-term school education) rather than on building a new school. The project’s basic concept is to establish a prototype learning centre that shall offer the functions and operations of private alternative learning system delivery centers for out-of-school youth, but provide the services for free.

         The target group of the Puso-sa-Puso Learning Centre shall be children who are of age to graduate from elementary or secondary school (median age will be between 11-14 and 16-19 respectively). Older children with potential shall also be considered, the main criteria being the desire and capacity to learn and pass. During the first year (in 2010), the service will be offered to 100 children. Thereafter the volume will increase by 50% per annum with an end target of 500 children within the 5th year of operation (2014).

         The program shall cover all costs associated with delivering the test taker from enrolment to actually taking the examination, excluding probable economic dislocations that may or may not result from the activity. It shall also pay for the conduct of a value-formation program for parents, meant to dissuade them from pulling the children out of the learning centre in case of economic pressures.