Donations to Quezon City public elementary schools

Since 2004, One Small Step Forward Foundation has made it a point to address the most urgent book and equipment needs of the public elementary schools where it operates.

  • Nearly every year since 2005, OSSFFI have been donating story books and children’s reference books such as illustrated dictionaries, geography photo books, and illustrated science (astronomy, geology, biology, anatomy, meteorology etc.) references. Although most of the storybook donations are printed outside the country and are hard bound, the Foundation has also sourced soft cover reading materials, especially the dual-language (English and Filipino) stories from local publishers Hiyas, Lampara, Ibong Adarna, Anvil, and Vibal. Since OSSFFI built the Bagumbayan Elementary School Learning Center and Library, it has received the most number of book donations over the past two decades. 

  • Nearly every year, just before summer classes begin, the school principals try to tap their donors for donations to their Brigada Eskwela, where the school mobilizes the parents and students to help prepare the classrooms for the school opening. This usually includes repainting, fixing still-repairable tables and chairs, fixing of toilets and drinking water dispensers, laundering curtains, covering DepEd books, sweeping and waxing the rooms and hallways – and all of these tasks require purchases – paints and paintbrushes, brooms, floor wax tins, mops or mop heads, nails, screws, glue, WD40, lightbulbs, electric socket replacements, etc. OSSFFI tends to respond affirmatively to these Brigada Eskwela requests. 

  • Also nearly every year in December, the school principals request for donations to their Teachers’ Party raffle, and in most cases, OSSFFI donates raffle gifts and-or cash prizes. 

  • In certain years, DepEd will want to celebrate the International Teachers’ Month – the last one was in 2019 - and the schools like Libis Elementary School, Bagumbayan Elementary School and Pura V. Kalaw Elementary School request for donations so they can mount teacher-focused programs. 

  • Educational toys such as modelling clay (play-doh), building blocks, memory games, chess sets, construction sets, scrabble sets, dominoes, scrablle, jigsaw puzzles, for example, the donation of physical activity games for the Special Education department of Old Balara Elementary School in March 2017, or the six tournament-size chess sets for New Era Elementary School in 2024. 

  • Sports equipment such as takraw balls, badminton rackets and shuttles, volleyballs, and nets, such as those donated to Libis elementary School and Bagumbayan Elementary School from 2012 to 2015.

  • Brand new desktop PC units complete with speakers and AVRs, such as those donated last March 2014 to Bagumbayan Elementary School; second-hand laptops, such as the 13 units of Acer Aspire One netbooks and Asus eee PC netbooks, donated to Libis Elementary School last October 2020; and external hard disks for the master teachers, such as those donated by the Foundation to Bagumbayan Elementary School back in February 2018. 

  • Large screen LED TVs and LCD projectors such as the units donated to both Libis Elementary School and Cubao Elementary School in 2017

  • Science equipment, such as anatomy models, microscopes, physics and chemistry experiment kits, such as the kits donated to Cubao Elementary School in March 2017.

  • Subsidies for teacher continuing education expenses

  • School infrastructure renovations, such as the Pasong Tamo Feeding Room in August 2015, the electrical upgrade rewiring for San Vicente Elementary School in 2009, Bagumbayan Elementary School in 2015, and drinking faucets for Old Balara Elementary School

Children sitting at computers in a classroom, working on assignments. They are using desktop computers with CRT monitors and some laptops, dressed in school uniforms.
Smiling person standing next to an LG LCD TV box and a Sharp DVD player box in a room with posters on the wall.
People participating in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, some holding candles, with a decorative balloon and flowers present.
Four people standing around a table piled with colorful board games and puzzles, smiling in a brightly lit room.
Two men sitting in an office surrounded by computer hardware boxes and components.
A group of eight people standing together indoors, with some holding educational materials like books and brochures. The setting appears to be an office or meeting room decorated with a bulletin board and framed painting.