10 Pesos Per day for 10 months = 10 thousand Classrooms

The Philippine public schools lack 66,800 classrooms. While the government’s budget for the building of classrooms has increased in 2011 and is being increased again in 2012, the resources are still not enough to fully address the problem.

The private sector, through the 57-75 Education Reform Movement, is responding to government’s call for support through a campaign called “Bayanihang Pampaaralan” which aims to solicit the support of companies and donor agencies to raise the needed resources.

Just recently, the 57-75 Education Reform Movement launched another campaign called TEN Moves! which hopes to provide ordinary Filipinos and even non-Filipino friends of the Philippines the opportunity to take part in this effort to help address the classroom shortage

TEN Moves! is a campaign to raise enough resources to build 10,000 classrooms in public schools all over the Philippines. Its main strategy is to get 2 million people to donate P10 per day for 10 months. That will be P300 per month or P3,000 for the entire 10 months. Because of the huge target and the massive mobilization that this will entail, this public fundraising campaign requires mobilizing a large number of organizations and people around the country.

It is expected to be supported widely by Filipinos and even non-Filipinos working together to address an urgent problem of the country. Thus, the name TEN Moves! also means “The Entire Nation Moves!”

How can we help: By making a donation
P10 per day for 10 months will be P300 a month or P3,000 for the entire ten months. Donations of more than P3,000 will be encouraged but donations of smaller amounts will also be accepted. Overseas donors may donate an average of $10 per month or $100 for the entire 10 months.

How to make a donation:

• For donors outside the Philippines:
  Wire / Telegraphic TransferBPI: Ayala Foundation, Inc. / 0014-0463-48 / BOPIPHMMAddress: 6768 BPI Bldg., Ayala Avenue
  corner Paseo de Roxas, Makati City

For more information on TEN Moves and on the ways to support the advocacy, please visit www.tenmoves.org.

PLCAA is assisting TEN MOVES through this publication.For more enquiries, email PLCAA at plcaa.inc@gmail.com