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.
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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