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Mother and child receive assistance from Sagip Kapamilya.
Media (education through multi-media) division, received
recognition from the Southeast Asian Foundation for
Children’s Television for their child-sensitive content.
The Anak TV Seal was conferred on Art Jam, New
Adventures of Madeline, Bear in the Big Blue House,
Silip: Sining sa Lipunan, Sine’skwela and Math-tinik.
529 schools received E-Media educational TV packages
and 459 teachers from 228 schools were trained in TV-
assisted instruction. E-media produced and aired Basta
Sports, a show on games and sports and Salam (Peace
Project) in partnership with Knowledge Channel.
Bantay Kalikasan, AFI’s environmental arm, gathered
more than five million signatures in order to declare
the La Mesa Watershed a reservation. A total of 1,404
hectares were already planted out of the total 1,525. The
La Mesa Ecopark launched and opened the Superferry
Boating Lagoon, Petron Fitness Trail, Butterfly Trail and
Hatchery, the Lopez Picnic Grounds, the Ecomuseum
and Ecocenter. La Mesa Ecopark is now the favorite
destination of schools for their educational field trips,
with 298 schools nationwide visiting the park in 2006.
Sagip Kapamilya brought ∏8.9million worth of relief to
the victims of Typhoon Reming in Bicol and Marinduque.
Interest-free loans to 7,211 families were given as seed
capital for various livelihood projects in the Municipalities
of Infanta, Real and Nakar, Province of Quezon. There
is also an ongoing construction of a water system in St.
Bernard, Guinsaugon, Leyte and a fish drying livelihood
project is underway to assist the victims of the mudslide
in Leyte.
Meanwhile, the microfinance activities of ABS-CBN
Bayan Foundation, Inc. served a cumulative 49,570 clients
as of December 2006 with repayment rate of 96.92%.
Entrepreneurship and Livelihood Training were provided
to 2,295 barangay members.
Knowledge channel Foundation, inc.
The Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc. (KCFI)
advocates the use of science and technology to equalize
educational opportunities for Filipino youth. As of
December 2006, its flagship Knowledge Channel (KCh)
was available to 2.7 million students in 1,709 public
schools in 46 provinces nationwide. Knowledge Channel
airs curriculum-based educational TV shows to aid
public school instruction.
In 2005, KCFI received a grant from the United States
Agency for International Development (USAID) to
provide quality education intervention to 150 beneficiary
schools in conflict-ridden Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) and to produce and air modules on
Livelihood and Peace Education. The three-year project
is called “Television Education for the Advancement of
Muslim Mindanao or TEAM-M”.
TEAM-M set up offices in Cotabato City to handle the
Maguindanao and surrounding areas and in Zamboanga
City to cover the Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi island
provinces. TEAM-M’s alliance partners include among
A grant from USAID allows KCFI and TEAM-M partners to provide quality educational intervention in Muslim Mindanao.
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