By Paul | Managing Director
At the end of August, schools opened up again in the Philippines and now face-to-face classes are allowed after more than 2 years of distance learning! As Young Focus we are excited about the new opportunities, but how much more the students and teachers!!! Studying face-to-face will even be a completely new experience for the younger children!
The pandemic has really set back children’s development and caused an increased school dropout rate in the Philippines. Dropping out of school totally eliminates their future opportunities. Many youth will turn to scavenging as their source of livelihood. The goal remains to support these young people through whatever challenges lie ahead. After being shut out of their schools and having to deal with the limitations of distance learning for so long, how will it be for the students to return to ‘normal schooling’, what kind of academic challenges will they be facing, how far behind will the educational levels have fallen, how ready will the schools and the teaching staff be? Young Focus is committed to giving the poorest of the poor the opportunities to enroll in school. We invited students and their parents to visit our centers: they registered for the new school year and received school materials, uniforms, shoes and, of course, a school bag.
As Young Focus, we are so glad we have the resources to support our beneficiaries, whatever the educational challenges they may face in the future. And those resources are there because of people such as yourself.
Thank you for partnering with us and the children!
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