AMORE, Knowledge Channel tie up to raise quality of education in BASULTA
Barangay Darul Akram, Languyan, Tawi-Tawi – Selected schools in remote villages in Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi (BASULTA) that have been and will yet be energized with renewable energy by the Alliance for Mindanao Off-grid Renewable Energy (AMORE) Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Mirant Philippines Foundation, Inc., Department of Energy, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and Winrock International, the US-based non-profit organization implementing AMORE, will enjoy satellite-TV-based education facilities from the Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI) with the signing here of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Winrock and KCFI for the Television Education Assistance for Muslim Mindanao (TEAM Mindanao) project.
AMORE Deputy Chief of Party Jim Orprecio, representing Winrock, and KCFI President and Executive Director Rina Lopez signed the MOA in the presence of visiting USAID Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East James Kunder, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Paul Jones, USAID/Philippines Mission Director Jon Lindborg, SunPower Corporation Advisory Board Chairman Charles Gay, Tawi-Tawi Governor Sadikul Sahali, Languyan Mayor Hasbi Matba, and Department of Education District Supervisors for the Tawi-Tawi municipalities of Languyan, Sapa-Sapa, and Sitangkai.
The renewable-energy-powered distance education facilities are expected to raise the quality of education in these three provinces that are among the poorest and most conflict-affected in the country, in support of a recent pronouncement by their leaders that education is what is most needed to improve living standards in these challenged provincs.
The Knowledge Channel educational TV facilities will be installed by AMORE and its sister program, the Solar Energy for Rural Electrification and Development (SERED) project of USAID, SunPower Corporation, and Winrock. KCFI will mentor the principals and subject heads of the selected schools on TV-assisted instruction and other support programs for improved education, and train the schools’ Parents, Teachers and Community Associations (PTCAs) to operate and maintain the distance education facilities in cooperation with the AMORE-organized Barangay Renewable Energy and Community Development Associations that AMORE trains to operate and maintain their renewable energy systems and expand their development.
Selected schools in remote villages in Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi (BASULTA) that have been and will yet be energized with renewable energy by the Alliance for Mindanao Off-grid Renewable Energy (AMORE) Program of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Mirant Philippines Foundation, Inc., Department of Energy, Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and Winrock International, the US-based non-profit organization implementing AMORE, will enjoy satellite-TV-based distance education facilities from the Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI) with the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Winrock and KCFI for the Television Education Assistance for Muslim Mindanao (TEAM Mindanao) project Barangay Darul Akram in Languyan, Tawi-Tawi. The Knowledge Channel educational TV facilities will be installed by AMORE and its sister program, the Solar Energy for Rural Electrification and Development (SERED) project of USAID, SunPower Corporation, and Winrock. In photo are: TEAM Mindanao and KCFI Project Director Doris Nuval, KCFI Pres. and Exec. Dir. Rina Lopez Bautista, US Embassy Chargé d’ Affaires Paul Jones, USAID Asst. Administrator for Asia and the Near East Bureau James Kunder, USAID/Phils. Mission Director Jon Lindborg, SunPower Corp. Chairman Charles Gay (partly hidden), and AMORE Deputy Chief of Party Jim Orprecio. |
