News and Updates


First pilot computer class launches successfully

June 10th, 2010

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 [...]

OSSFF to Undertake Rehabilitation Work on BES Library

June 10th, 2010

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 [...]

OSSFF assists Baranggay Bagumbayan and Libis Elem during Ondoy flood relief

June 10th, 2010

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 [...]

OSSFF orders netbooks for computer literacy summer workshops for BES students

June 10th, 2010

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 [...]