In Physics, there exists a force that causes objects to rotate. This force is called Torque. In plain language, it is evident when our hands are warm against the cold metal of door knobs, and it twists to open. The same way, one point is worth a million in a tally of votes. One brick could make the difference between rubble and megamall. One act can turn the wheels in the Circle of Life.
In the Circle of Life, 39% of Filipino children belong to low-income communities. 80% of the same children have little to no access to a functional library. A library is the airport, the pier, the terminal toward education that is humane and empowering. Without these, how will the great minds of tomorrow ever take flight?
STREAMS – Pathways to Higher Education, like the river, is an advocacy flowing into a vast ocean of infinite possibilities. Since 2006, the program has adopted Lumbia National High School, mending and upgrading its supplementary reading and library materials—fixtures and furniture included. Apart from addressing the pressing need of public high school students for functional libraries, STREAMS is geared toward providing enrichment classes and scholarship assistance to public high school students ready to flow into the great, big world of college.
By supporting our advocacy, you will be torqueing the doors for a public high school student to experience higher education. By supporting our campaign to Share the Light, you will help build libraries for children who are strangers to the kind of feet-on-the-chair, head-on-the-table library you know and love—like introducing one friend to another. By supporting STREAMS, you will be rowing with us.
Among the companies and institutions that have helped realize this program are the Children’s Hour Foundation, Coke Barkada Program of the Coca-Cola Foundation, and Pathways to Higher Education in Ateneo de Manila University.
The Filipino people need you. There are children who need you. We need you. When we share the light, we could be illuminating a world full of hope lost in blank, empty pages.
