The Adopt-A-School Program, which started in 1998, was created to help generate investments and support to education outside the mainstream funding and the national budget. They are enjoined to support the schools in any of the following areas: infrastructure, health and nutrition, teaching skills development, computer and science lab equipment and learningsupport.

1. Adopt-a-School
Program
Extending a
Hand
Towards
Educational
Development

2. The Adopt-A-School Program, which
started in 1998, was created to help
generate investments and support to
education outside the mainstream
funding and the national budget.

3. They are enjoined to
support the schools in
any of the following
areas:
infrastructure, health and
nutrition, teaching skills
development, computer
and science lab
equipment and learning
support.

4. Under the program, legally instituted by the
passage of RA 8525, private entities, either local
or overseas are given the opportunity to become
partners in education through their assistance
in the upgrading and modernizations of public
elementary and high schools. In return, they are
to enjoy additional tax incentives (150 percent)
as they implement their project.

5. Adaption
ProcessA Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) will specify
the details of adoption between the adopting entity
and the head of the school concerned.
MOA is subject to review and approval of the School
Superintendents.
A standards and guidelines for review of adoption
shall be formulated by the Coordinating Council
(assessment for the application for tax credits by the
adopting entity)
The agreement shall last for at least two years.

6. Schools that make it to the list are the less
privileged, those who have limited resources but
have very large student population. Most of them
experience classroom shortage, insufficient
textbooks and instructional materials and
overcrowding. Schools in low-income
municipalities, those that are poor but have high
performing students and those with
undernourished students are also given due
considerations.

7. Photo shows the inauguration
and turn-over of the 2nd Year
High School Building of the La
Soledad Integrated School in
Brgy. Nongnong, Butuan City
to the Department of
Education (DepEd) Caraga.
The Adopt-a-school project is
made possible through the
efforts of the Rotary Club of
Metro Butuan in partnership
with Alpha Phi Omega (APO)
and APO LAMBDA,

8. An organized fun
run of the Philippine
Star Ngayon for a
cause to help rebuild
San Isidro
Elementary School in
Naguillan, La
Union, that was
damaged by the
typhoon Pepeng last

9. Taking a Different
Route
And instead of opting in financial
areas, some of these institutions chose
to provide their expertise, doing what
they do best and maximizing the
resources that they already have.

10. One classic
example would be
the work of the
Manila Water
Company, which
did an audit on the
drainage systems
of schools in their
territory. Pasig
Elementary
School, their first
project, now have
safe and clean
drinking .

11. The Lopez Group of
Companies, which utilized
the Knowledge Channel as
an avenue to improve the
quality of education
through a different
medium. All of their
programs are based on the
Philippine curriculum for
elementary and high
school, designed to help
students in academic
subjects such as
History, Science and Math

12. STI’s reach-out, providing equal
opportunities in ICT-enhanced
learning to Filipino students across
the country specially to those who
are less privileged. The STI Mobile
School 2 is the second installment of
STI’s “Driving Education Where IT
Matters” campaign. The new Mobile
School is equipped with a state-of-
the-art computer laboratory with
internet access, 27 units of
multimedia computers, LCD
monitors, sound system, and other
top-of-the-line computer equipment.

13. The Promise in
Education•With the demand for public education in the secondary
level growing at the rate of five percent a year, more than
twice the population growth rate.
•a big shift in the enrollment from private education to
public education because of the rising costs of living in
the country, parents could no longer afford the tuition
fees being charged.

14. •with the continuing problems in budgets and limited
resources. As a result, government funded schools often
experience shortage in about everything except the number of
enrollees!
•and as much as DepEd wants to provide public school
students first class learning environment that they deserve,
such task is enormous and difficult.
•Education… a concept that would impact whole country,
affecting not only this generation but the future ones as well,
should not be left in the hands of the few but should be
developed and cultivated by every Filipino in every way that
they can.

15. •As DepEd former Secretary Edilberto De Jesus mentioned
in his speech, “Basic education is too big and too
important a task to leave to the government.” Education is
the country’s answer to the growing problem of poverty.
“We do not only want to alleviate it but to totally eradicate
it.
•Idealistic the statement might be, it is within reach if
every Filipino will join hands and make an effort to instill
change
•Impossibilities are impossible to a nation that reaches for
the stars together. United, the nation is unbreakable.