To provide support to underprivileged children in selected rural and urban poor areas of Negros to enable them to have access to better learning facilities and services.
Education is generally viewed as an escape route from poverty, a means to improve life of the poor. Philippines has 91% learning poverty rate, according to the World Bank report in August 2022. Learning poverty is defined as 'inability to read and understand short, age-appropriate texts by the age of 10.'
The education system in the Philippines is reflective of the economic and political inequality in the country. Only a very few privileged children have access to adequate modern learning facilities. The majority of schools, particularly those in the most poverty-stricken areas, have chronically bad teacher/pupil ratios and outdated and irrelevant learning materials. Moreover, 50% of children are deprived of school.
The education system in the Philippines is reflective of the economic and political inequality in the country. Only a very few privileged children have access to adequate modern learning facilities. The majority of schools, particularly those in the most poverty-stricken areas, have chronically bad teacher/pupil ratios and outdated and irrelevant learning materials. Moreover, 50% of children are deprived of school.
If learning poverty in the country will not be urgently addressed, our future human resources will be a major challenge to our economic development.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4—Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all—is at the heart of UFFES INC’s work. We provide targeted support to communities in Negros Island through mini-libraries, learning tools, school supplies, and interventions that keep children in school.
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