The ideation of a creative mobile classroom project in Cebu gave the empowerment of the out-of-school kids in the Philippines a boost. The “Mobile KART Project,” put forth by SEED4COM, received more support after it was named one of the Top Three winners in the “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” charitable campaign, which got underway last year. If the campaign is successful, there will be a chance to build other mobile classrooms that will assist more youth who are not in school in many other parts of Cebu.
The aim was noble: to assist Cebu’s youth, particularly from poor and marginalized families, and provide them with free access to education with diverse and free-of-charge training courses that will hopefully educate them even in the midst of a debilitating pandemic.
The project will be officially inaugurated and launched on October 2022 at several locations in Cebu City such as Lapu-Lapu City, Cordoba, and Olango Island, among others. It would become doubly significant since the launch will coincide with the holding of the annual Taiwan-Philippines Joint Economic Conference.
The innovative and creative Mobile KART is not just any mobile classroom. It comes equipped with solar panels, laptops, an LED TV display, audio system and even routers for mobile internet connectivity, and all are Taiwan Excellence Award-winning products.
The Mobile KART Project offers courses such as “Transformative Educational Access for the Communities and Homes” and also “Technology Vocational Livelihood Skills Training.” These courses are meant to teach the poor youth in Cebu’s poverty-stricken areas with valuable life skills, particularly the benefits of reading. Hopefully, the skills will equip them with knowledge they can use to improve livelihood or pursue higher education when given the opportunity.
The “Mobile KART Project” is a mobile classroom that originated in Cebu and was part of several initiatives related to education by Sustainable Energy and Enterprise Development for Communities or SEED4COM (https://www.seed4com.org/). The organization was established to help improve human conditions and empowering poverty-stricken areas, rural and last-mile communities in the Philippines.
Given the enormous number of entries, the “Mobile KART Project” winning at the “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” competition was undoubtedly a proud moment for SEED4COM as well as the entire nation, according to Dann Diez, Executive Director of SEED4COM.
The goal of “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring,” an initiative sponsored by the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), was to improve society by giving everyone the chance to share ideas about charitable work and other altruistic endeavors connected to social development and environmental protection through the use of products.
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