Community Learning Hub at Nabua, Camarines Sur.

Community Learning Hubs

Do you ever wish you could help kids learn to read,? Do you want to expand their world thru books? One of the best ways to do that in the Philippines is thru community learning centers. These are barangay-based sites with volunteer tutors helping children especially in disadvantaged areas supplement their learning thru these centers. Angat Pinas (formerly Angat Buhay) have help set up among the best run community learning hubs.

They have already refined the process of standing up physical sites and a great training program for the volunteer tutors. This process includes ensuring that the operations are above board. Transparency as well as accountability are also enforced that would be a good way for donors to monitor their generosity is being put to good use.

The reading level of the kids are also measured to ensure that their progress is being monitored and improved going forward. The Bradelinas Foundation has been partnering with existing CLHs in the province of Camarines Sur. One of these is in Nabua. We support the physical sites thru book donations. We give financial support to the tutors who visits those locations.

A good number of volunteers do not live in the town where the CLH are located and thus have to travel either via public transportation or use their own personal vehicles. Our foundation is reimbursing their fares or fuel to lessen the their financial burdenas they travel to and from these hubs.

Reading Improvement

The CLH program in Nabua has been very successful. The kids in Nabua has shown mark improvement with their reading skills. The CLH administrators regularly evaluates these kids to provide the stakeholders feedback on everyone’s efforts. It is our hope that our foundation thru the public’s donation would be able to sustain these hubs. We know that these programs are not sprints but marathons.

We have to keep supporting them until the schools in the Philippines would be self sufficient, with enough teachers and materials that students no longer need outside help to keep up with their studies.

Transparency

The CLH are set up for transparency, Budgets are posted online to allow the public, especially donors to peruse how the CLH is using its funds. We hope that it gives donors the satisfaction of knowing where their money is going.