Monday, April 28, 2014

Abot-alam Program

Abot-alam Program


From the Department of Education
The Department of Education (DepEd) intensified its Abot-Alam Program to improve delivery of quality education for the Out-of-School Youth (OSY) in the country by signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with partners from the public and private sectors.
Secretary of Education Armin Luistro said, “Tayo po ay nasa digmaan: digmaan ng walang alam at walang pakialam. Ang atin pong pangarap ay siguraduhing walang maiiwang out-of-school youth sa bawat barangay.” He added that DepEd would bring the school to the learners.
“Ang atin pong pangarap ay sa labas ng bawat barangay ay may nakalagay na ‘Walang OSY.’ Sana sa bawat munisipyo, may nakalagay na ‘Walang OSY sa Munisipyo na Ito.’ Sana po sa bawat kampo, may nakalagay na ‘Sa Kampo na Ito, Walang Hindi Nakakatapos ng High School,’” Luistro said.
He noted that DepEd would make sure that no Filipino youth would be left behind in education.
“The signing of the MOU solidifies our readiness to deliver Abot-Alam in different areas in the country. It is a sign that we are ready to take on the challenge of achieving ZERO out-of-school youth in the country,” Undersecretary for External Linkages Mario Deriquito said.
He added that the collective effort of different agencies, organizations, and individual Filipinos was crucial to the success of Abot-Alam.
“The success of Abot-Alam will depend on our ability to bring this partnership to the local level: to the provinces, to the cities, to the municipalities, and the barangays. As we go along, we should bring onboard our local government, our barangay, our academe, the military, the churches, and individual Filipinos. Dapat po lahat sila ay hikayatin natin na makialam sa bagay na ito,” he said.
Among the agencies and organizations that committed to work together for the success of the program were the National Youth Commission (NYC), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Department of Health (DOH), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Welfare and Development (DSWD), Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Commission on Higher Education (CHED), National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Presidential Commission of the Urban Poor (PCUP), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Arnold Janssen Catholic Mission Foundation, Inc. (AJCMFI), Catholic Media Network (CMN), De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship-Go Negosyo (GO Negosyo NMBK), RockEd Philippines, Sandiwaan Center for Learning, SEAMEO Innotech, Smarts Communications, Inc., Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP), League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), Liga ng mga Barangay sa Pilipinas (LnB), Philippine Councilors’ League (PCL), and National Movement of Young Legislators (NYML).
“We are embarking on Abot-Alam to tackle a huge problem, which we believe we can overcome if we, as a nation, give it one big push,” Derequito said.
According to Chair Leon G. Flores of NYC, he said that Abot-Alam program would provide the necessary opportunities for the OSY to know where to start to be able to live a better life.
The signed MOU elaborated the different ways by which the different groups could take part in Abot-Alam. It would also serve an initial guide to continue to define respective contributions of the different organizations to this effort. 
Nagcarlan, Laguna was among the first local government agencies that implemented Abot-Alam.
















































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