The One Small Step Forward Foundation, Inc. was formally established by Jaime "Bing" del Rosario, former senior partner in Accenture Phils., in September 2006 to provide a legal vehicle for Bing and Elise del Rosario's social work, which had been ongoing since June 2002. The Foundation was set up primarily to uplift the standards of public school education in the country. This has included, among other things, donating schoolrooms and research laboratories; building private school-standard libraries in public schools; donating schoolbooks, library books, audio-video aids, educational games and school supplies; providing after-school academic programs such as the iSipnayan math program, and MTAP tutorials for both gifted and remedial classes; conducting regular story-telling sessions; assisting public schools with infrastructure and equipment needs; providing sports coaching, athletic equipment and playing facilities; providing high school and college review classes and scholarships to academic achievers; coaching teams for inter-school math competitions, etc.
The first two-week summer class started last Monday April 12. 20 kids from Grades 4 to 6 were included in Batch 1. Bing del Rosario himself handled the first three days of the program. From 9 am to 12:30 pm, of day 1, Bing led the students through Microsoft Windows XP. The students opened programs [...]
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In line with its commitment to continue to maintain the Bagumbayan Multimedia Center for Excellence (a.k.a. the “library”) which it built for the school in 2004, the One Small Step Forward Foundation, through VP & Treasurer Elise del Rosario recently arranged for the annual cleaning of the library’s three airconditioning units. Then, Foundation President Bing [...]
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In late September 2009, typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng brought floods that ravaged all of Metro Manila. In the short span of 10 hours, Ondoy brought nearly 40 centimeters of rain down on Metro Manila and flooded 80% of the National Capital Region. The previous record was 33 cm in 24 hours, which was way back [...]
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An outline of the OSSFF English language and reading programs
I am very excited to announce to our Foundation friends and readers that we will be designing and implementing a number of English after-school intervention program pilots for this coming school year. This has long been one of my cherished dreams and now that iSipnayan math is far along the development road and proving itself in its roll-outs, this is perhaps the time to focus some of the attention to English.
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