Hi Everybody, 

Time flies! We've been operational with our 4 schools for 3 months now and we've come so far. One of our facilitators, Jem, said it herself, "the beginning was so hard, but it's so much better now". We've changed many things based on experience, like offering schools modules instead of activities to choose from, and offering different payment systems for different students. More on that when the time comes. In the meantime:

Listen to Ma'am Maris talk about the difference between a Traditional Class and a JeepneED Class. Watch students talk about their experiments, take a look at students at work and see a class in fast forward.

Warm hugs,

Shaina

p.s. Here's one with English subtitles for our non tagalog speaking audience http://youtu.be/cO3Kp4ccKPY 

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Year! It's been a while since an update, and we've been moving fast. Time we got you up to speed.

Below is a short video of our launch in Sarangani. You may know it as the part of the world home to a certain Filipino boxer, or a certain Ms. Universe contestant, now it is home to our first JeepneED.

Watch here to hear about JeepneED in a nut shell and learn some Bisaya phrases: http://youtu.be/6rO647hyaIk

We were really nervous, and I hope i hid the stuttering well enough to get the message across.

We got some major media millage locally and abroad afterward e.g. Business World. Which got us some good attention for potential support and partnerships. We've also updated our Give2Asia page where we receive a fiscal sponsorship for those who would like to continue to support our operations and receive those tax cut benefits: http://give2asia.org/jeepneed

 We shall send you a recap of the year in the coming posts. We've learned so much, and are tweaking our operations in order to be more efficient in the coming quarter (more soon).

More soon,

Shaina 

Our Mobile Lab arrives in Sarangani on Thursday! Hoorah! A few typhoons prevented the boat from shipping it to us sooner, and we'll update you all once it finally gets to us. 

Meanwhile, We've finalized our list of partner schools. They are officially, Lamlifew Elementary, Malandag Elementary, Alegria Elementary, Rogaya Integrated School and Mangelen Integrated school. We will be catering to their 5th & 6th grade and first year high school students. Altogether we will be serving 1,000+ students with plans to expand to other grade levels once we have operations down. 

 We've also been training teachers, our two hired facilitators and had our first full week of run throughs to help students review for their second quarter examinations. This helped us test out the logistics and anticipate what else we will need to prepare for. We were just picked up and dropped off with all the possible materials we would need (and our cool tables).

Check out the Pictures, You'll see Dennis Callo (first pic) and Jemielyn Lariosa (last pic), our two awesome facilitators with a biology and agri fisheries background. Mike Bharami, teaching Biology at the University of Santo Tomas, also took a trip down to help us out (the first of many trips). Many Thanks! It was exciting and tiring and wonderful. 

It's sem break for the kids right now, but we're busy planning the activities and buying materials for the rest of the year!

Shaina

p.s. Look at pic number three. This student decided to write her own inquiry question in English during recess. (Even though we were teaching in Tagalog and Bisaya!)

Hello everyone! Our paint job is almost done. It's been pushed back because of the rain, but it should be done on Thursday this week! Check out the video to see what it looks like right now.