Enhancing Primary Education (E-CARE)
Support the growth of St Mark’s Children’s Learning Centre as it provides an educational future for hundreds of local children.
This exciting new project will support the expansion of St Mark’s Children’s Learning Centre in Batal in the Episcopal Church’s Diocese of Santiago in Isabella province. The Centre is planning to offer classes from Nursery to Grade 7 (currently offering Nursery, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 and 2), increasing by one grade each year. As Diocesan Bishop Frenzel Ray Piluden said when he visited ABM late last year:
“We have asked for help from AID to build a two-storey building housing eight classrooms on the site of our existing Children’s Learning Centre. We plan by the end of 2028 to have all the elementary school grades, up to and including Grade 7. Currently we only have pre-school to Grade 2. So, each year we plan to build an additional classroom for the following year’s students.
“The Children’s Learning Centre is managed by a trust, of which I am the chair.
“We are also establishing a Campus Endowment Fund to sustain the school for years to come.”
This Fund, to be supplemented by school fees, will enable the Diocese to pay its teachers at the rate required by the Government (currently the teachers are being paid well below minimum wages).
The Diocese will also conduct a strategic review of the Episcopal Diocese of Santiago Children’s Learning Centre in general and especially of St. Mark’s Campus to produce a 10-year plan to cover the school’s development over that time.
Bishop Frenzel said that most of the Anglicans in his diocese are Igorots, the indigenous people of the Mountain Province, but the school will be open to people of all faiths and backgrounds since there is very strong demand for education in the region.
As well as classrooms, the building will include toilets, a laboratory, and a library. It will also be accessible to children and adults with disabilities.
St Mark’s is accredited with the Philippines Government Department of Education.
Please donate to this project if you’d like to play a part in the educational future of hundreds of young Filipino children.
Children stand outside an existing classroom at St Mark’s Learning Centre ©ECP
In 2024 we hope to raise for this project:
$98,000
Donation code: XG011PE
Tax-deductible
Donate Online Now
Your gift will be used to help our Sustainable Communities projects planned for this year.
Your donation will help ABM’s Anglicans in Development and our overseas church partners work with communities to combat poverty, overcome illiteracy, enable better access to clean water and sanitation, end gender-based violence, build equality, increase resilience to climate change and disasters and strengthen community-level leadership.
Need help? Call us 1300 302 663
Gifts are received by the trustee for the ‘Anglicans in Development Ltd’ ABN 86 647 293 481
Gifts will be applied to the support of projects selected. In the unlikely event of projects being oversubscribed or not proceeding to completion, donations will be applied to similar projects.
Project Updates
Episcopal Church in the Philippines seeks to strengthen teaching of Community Values in Church Schools
A recent visit to ABM in Sydney was part of a new school education partnership between the Episcopal Church in the Philippines and ABM. Read more here.
