March marks the end of the school year and the start of summer! March is also the time of graduations and to start things off, we had our first graduation last Friday, March 13 with our ERDA Pre-school class at Bagong Silangan, Quezon City.

Two groups of our pre-school students totaling 50, had their Commencement Exercises at Bagong Silangan last Friday, with their proud parents, teachers and social workers in attendance. The 5 and 6 year olds were all smiles as they were called up on stage with their parents to receive an academic or behavioral award, as well as a Certificate of Completion.


Bagong Silangan is just one of the 17 pre-school classes that ABC Foundation sponsors every school year. The top 3 students from our pre-schools in Quezon City are automatically sponsored by ABC Foundation to continue on to elementary school as scholars, also in partnership with ERDA Foundation.

With ERDA Foundation (Educational Research and Development Assistance), ABC Foundation is sponsoring 44 elementary school scholars and 425 pre-school scholars for S.Y. 2008-2009. All our scholars are from very poor families and for only P1,700 or P2,000 you can sponsor one pre-school or elementary school student for one whole school year. The cost includes uniforms, miscellaneous school fees, allowance and other school-related expenses.

This pre-school scholarship program is designed to help these young children become better prepared for entering grade 1 and it also gives their parents a chance to be able to find jobs to augment their family income.