The Street Classroom aims to create and provide support systems to all types of learners to encourage them to continue or go back to schooling under formal education.
Mabuhay! Welcome to the Street Classroom!
The Street Classroom is a volunteer organization based in Marinduque, Philippines that aims to create and provide support systems to in-school and out-of-school youth, dropouts, children at risk, and children in conflict with the law to achieve their dreams. The organization focuses on providing support to those who face physical, economic, or geographical limitations, with the goal of helping individuals achieve their goals and contribute to the development of the country.
The Street Classroom also aims to identify and address problems faced by learners both at home and in school and create solutions tailored to their needs. Its primary goal is to ensure that learners are able to return to formal education and develop a love for the country, a sense of civic duty, moral character, personal discipline, and skills in science, technology, and vocational fields. To achieve this, the organization conducts tutorial sessions, follow-up activities, and outreach programs aligned with the Philippine K-12 Curriculum and Alternative Learning System, to help learners pass the acceleration and equivalency test.
It holds outreach activities in open areas or streets as a way of removing the fear of learners from classrooms, teachers, and the teaching-learning process, which was found to be one of the reasons why students are disinterested in schooling. Volunteers engage with beneficiaries through games and learning exercises to build strong rapport, which is important in teaching the beneficiaries in follow-up or tutorial sessions.
As a way of battling the cycle of poverty, The Street Classroom runs a project called Pangarap, Puso, at Pag-iisip Project para sa Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps para sa 4Ps. This project focuses on pagkain, pangkabuhayan, pang-edukasyon, and panatag na isipan. With funds it raises, The Street Classroom provides families in the government's 4Ps program with food supplies and teaches them how to raise vegetables in a community garden. It also gives out learning kits and provides tutorial classes, learning gadgets, and WiFi to help with distance learning. It rehabilitated 10 public school libraries and built two learning hubs. It likewise gave out daily gratitude journals and free guidance and counseling sessions to help those with mental health issues.
In a span of five years, the organization has conducted four award-winning projects, nine major outreach activities, and facilitated seven youth development sessions, with a combined total beneficiary count of 8,331 Marinduquenos, 36 public schools, and 54 communities.
The Street Classroom was also a recognized organization of the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) Awards Inc. for three consecutive years (2019-2021), eventually placing as one of the National Finalists in 2021. Its Founder and Executive Director, Kyle David V. Atienza, was recognized as the CSC Pagasa Award National Awardee under the Civil Service Commission's Honor Awards Program 2024. All these achievements were accomplished through the kindness of people from the province called the 'Heart of the Philippines,' Marinduque.