A Tiny Step Towards Free Education

For my birthday, I decided to do something. Something concrete and out of the ordinary. Yes there was a time my family threw a party for underprivileged children and many people have done that just the same. This year I want something more than temporary happiness, temporary smiles. I thought since other people are doing their fair share of contributing to temporary happiness, I want now to focus on contributing to long-term growth and development. This may lead to lifelong achievement and contentment, thus happiness.

Thanks to the help of a parent that I've met the past school year. She hooked me up with an organization that I can help. I want my experience not only to be memorable for me, but also for the children who are to benefit in this effort that I am pushing for.

My plan is to donate new story books in a community that can be of help to the children who are not able to go to school because of lack of funds. They should not suffer being uneducated because their life is tough. The government is responsible to educate the children of the nation and since they are doing a suck-y job, I think I can do something to be able to lessen the possibility that they will grow up uneducated.

Through this books, at this early age, they can jump start their literacy.Of course we cannot rely on that alone, but we need to guide them to internalize the stories in the books that they will be reading. And to maximize this, I want to push for literacy-based curriculum. Me and my friend Kim did a report on it last term. Its a kind of curriculum that is centered on story books. In the story, the teacher can infuse concepts such as vocabulary, math, social studies etc. This can help children broaden their horizon, to think in a much larger perspective than when it's done in the traditional classroom. I am really hoping that this way, we can develop children to be inquisitive and broad minded. This is the kind of children we need for the next generation. To be able to help them become what they should be in the future, there is no better time to start than now.

If you want to help me on this project, feel free to post a comment and we'll talk. :)