CHAP will receive a Dell Powering the Possible grant that will facilitate its aim to empower street children through education and computer literacy.
CHAP works with the underprivileged street children and out-of-school youth in Metro Manila to give them equal opportunities for learning through several programs, including basic literacy and numeracy, alternative learning system basic education, computer literacy, as well as life skills, values and primary health education. To facilitate its outreach and protection/education program, the charity is aided by mobile education vans with street educators that are deployed to18locations daily where street children are commonly found—in parks or on the sidewalks of urban centers—to teach children there.
The core of this partnershipis to provide the underserved youth and educators with access to technology and serve as a catalyst for lifelong learning and career readiness. Dell technology will be used to equip the mobile education vans with laptops and the required education software to accomplish the work of accredited programs administered by CHAP, benefiting an estimated 500 children.
In addition, the grant will also enable CHAP to set-up a computer lab with Dell desktops to provide digital learning and basic computer literacy classes to 120 selected street children brought to the charity’s premises and to the areas in Metro Manila where CHAPoperates.
Thecomputers at the center will also be installed with a database program that will be used by the 25street educators for recording and tracking the progress of the streetchildren under the program. This will greatly help in monitoring the welfare of the children and in evaluating the impact of the program to the beneficiaries.
