a distant education
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A Distant Education
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.
A Distant Education
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.
A Distant Education
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.
A Distant Education
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
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• It is up to us when this project will be
started and hope very soon.
• And it will start from…