Tulong Pinoy Movement calls for more sponsors

	Tonette Binsol

Since June 1999, Tulong Pinoy movement started Iskolar-Pinoy (IP) program. This program aims to provide an opportunity to poor out-of-school youth to acquire a college degree through scholarship assistance. It is the hope of the movement that the sponsored Iskolar-Pinoy, after having been helped through time, will be trained such that his desire to be of service to the community will be deeply inculcated.

Every Iskolar-Pinoy will undergo leadership training programs to be supervised by the movement.

This program is one of the better supplements to educate the youth who could serve our country in the future. Moreover, a youth who will be sent to college through this project will uplift the lives of his needy parents, brothers and sisters, including his future children.

The output of this program indeed has a multiplier effect. It is the hope of the movement that individuals, organizations, groups or barkadas will participate in our Sponsor Search Drive. We are in need of PARTNERS (contacts and links) who are readily available for sponsoring at least one Iskolar-Pinoy. The budget per scholar is 125 dollars per semester.

STEP BY STEP ISKOLAR-PINOY SELECTION/SPONSORSHIP PROCESS

STEP 1. Selection of Iskolar-Pinoy

The targets of Tulong Pinoy scholarship are those families that are at least 30% below the poverty threshold. Data enumerated below are factors to be considered: monthly income, sources of income, nature of income (regular or irregular), expenditures and expenditure patterns and size of the family, academic performance, eagerness to study, membership in an indigenous tribe and choice of study field.
Tulong Pinoy finalizes the list of Iskolar-Pinoy and Field Monitors depending on the available budget.

STEP 2. Sponsorship Assignment

Tulong Pinoy introduces the Scholar to his/her assigned Sponsor through letters. Direct communication between the Sponsor and the Scholar is not made possible to protect each one's privacy. Tulong Pinoy introduces the Sponsor to his/her Scholar through letters or personal information of the coordinating team.

STEP 3. Orientation and Contract-Signing

Tulong Pinoy conducts orientations with Sponsors, Scholars and Field Monitors. If the Sponsor is living abroad, guidelines pertinent to the sponsorship system are sent by snail mail. Thereafter, contract-signing and policy manual receipt for Scholars, Field Monitors and Sponsors follow.

STEP 4. Payment Scheme of Sponsorship

The Sponsor chooses a PAYMENT SCHEME for 1 year then forwards his/her share to Tulong Pinoy. This scheme includes the frequency of sending the Share, which could be bimonthly, semestral or just once a year. The Sponsor chooses a mode for forwarding his/her Share. This mode maybe through bank transfer (remittance), cheque form addressed to Tulong Pinoy or cash form. Effective Second Semester, 1999-2000, for every semester, Tulong Pinoy declared the MAXIMUM SHARE OF FIVE THOUSAND PESOS or 15,000 yen for each Scholar. Tulong Pinoy sends a receipt of the Share in 3-14 days depending on the location of the Sponsor. (Choose your half-year help-payment scheme: 3,000 yen per month for 5 months or 2,500 per month for 6 months as an individual or group sponsor.)

STEP 5. Monitoring and Evaluation of Scholars

Tulong Pinoy conducts monitoring through an assigned Field Monitor or Adviser of the Scholar's performance and sends report to the Sponsor twice a semester. Thereafter, it checks and evaluates the performance of the Scholar for the continuance of sponsorship in the following school year. The performance of the Scholar is rated based on his/her participation in seminars and training programs and his/her academic performance.

POSSIBLE MEANS OF SPONSORSHIP: 3,000 yen or 25 dollars or 1,000 pesos per month or 15,000 yen or 125 dollars or 5,000 pesos per semester

Interested parties may contact Tonette Binsol by email (ka_tonyang@yahoo.com) or they may call 090-9367-3872.*


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