Philippines:
Winnetka Education Program for Street Children

Date of Funding: June 2009

The Winnetka Education Program for Street Children was launched in March 2007, providing literacy, creative arts, and livelihood training to disadvantaged illiterate children ages 10-16, usually homeless and without parents.

The Winnetka Education Program is a full scholarship one for disadvantaged children and runs concurrently with a Traditional curriculum approved by the Philippine Department of Education. The main purpose of the Winnetka non-graded two-year course is to prepare the scholars for admittance to public school system at the proper Grade level in Elementary or High-school according to their age upon passing the Philippine Education Placement Test (PEPT), thus preventing them to continue or become street children and later juvenile delinquents and under evil guidance insurgents.

The 1% Fund has successfully funded the Program in 2007-2008, when the funds have been used to help impoverished students go to primary school. In 2009, the Program has been funded for a second time. The goal of the current project is to enable the children enrolled in the education program to acquire baking and sewing skills.