Sometimes, small things can have significant impact. Case in point were the four stand fans that the Foundation recently purchased for its iSipnayan operations. Two of the fans went to the iSipnayan Room of Bagumbayan Elementary School and the remaining two went to the iSipnayan Room of Pasong Tamo Elementary School. Where before, students were […]
As with 2012 and 2013, the One Small Step Forward Foundation Inc. again organized volleyball and badminton clinics during the 2014 summer break, this time for 38 Libis Elementary School students, 24 of whom signed up badminton while 14 signed up for volleyball. The 2014 sports clinic was conducted over six three-hour sessions for a […]
Last March 2014, One Small Step Forward Foundation Inc. donated five brand new desktop PCs equipped Intel G2020 processors, 2G RAM, 500G HD plus 5 units of 17-inch LCD monitors complete with mouse and external speakers to Bagumbayan Elementary School, or BES, for the school’s computer literacy program. The donation was received by then-principal Antonio […]
One Small Step Forward Foundation Inc. continues to support Canyon Woods Residential Resort’s annual outreach program. This past November, OSSFFI donated children’s toys and school supplies. For November 2013, OSSFFI donated 5 dozen rubber slippers, 4 dozen crayons, 18 Smurf ballpens, 3 boxes of erasers, and 150 pieces of different storybooks – Magic School Bus, […]
OSSFFI, through its president Bing del Rosario, recently completed a “consulting” project for Doña Josefa Edralin Marcos Elementary School (DJEMES). Contacted by former Bagumbayan Elementary School master teacher Grace Pelagio, Bing del Rosario met incoming new principal Jocelyn Lopez, who expressed serious concern about the gradually dwindling enrolment, currently at 1,600 students, and what she […]
The One Small Step Forward Foundation Inc. is getting ready to formalize an arrangement to pilot its iSipnayan math program in two of the Affordable Private Education Center Inc., or APEC, schools. APEC, a joint venture between Ayala Corp. and the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pearson, the international learning company, aims […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The One Small Step Forward Foundation just recently received its order for twelve netbooks from Columbia Technologies Inc. The Asus eeePC 1005ha is powered by Intel’s Atom N280 processor. With clock speed of 1.66 GHz and equipped with 1G RAM, the netbook is expected to be sufficient to handle the light to moderate computing workload […]
