TODA Project PEARLS

Agoot | Bermudez | Carani | Cardenas | Embornal | Pangilinan

Introduction

PROJECT PEARLS

Background and History

Project PEARLS started in August 2010 with Melissa Villa and her daughter when they were first introduced to a community of Ulingan (charcoal factory) after seeing photos of Sidney Snoeck, a Belgian photo journalist. The pictures showed children in a poor situation, and because of this, the urge to help came about. The place is dirty and really polluted, and the families living there were experiencing poverty and conditions not fit for a healthy life.

But, in 2013, the community was relocated, and the families are now living in a better place in Barangay Batia, Bocaue, Bulacan. Up to this day, they are still helping the community by commencing outreach programs and providing scholarships for the children. And now, they are able to help more communities: a Temporary Housing in Tondo, Manila (2013), children and youth in Kabasalan, Zamboanga Sibugay (2014), and scholarships and relief programs for a community of 700 families in Erika Louise Ville, Barangay Malainen, Naic, Cavite.

Advocacy

Project PEARLS is an organization founded in 2010 to feed, educate, advocate, and work for the basic human rights of children living in poverty. Some of their programs are to provide:

Scholarships
Healthcare programs
Emergency relief operations

MISSION

To help the poorest of the poor children to have a better life by giving them PEARLS: Peace, Education, Aspiration, Respect, Love and Smiles through education, empowerment, nutrition, nourishment, and healthcare.

PROFILING

Project PEARLS Headquarters

Address: 81 A. Palon St., Barangay 69, Caloocan City, Metro Manila
Contact Person: Jay-R Panagsagan
Mobile Number: 0956 142 4296
Position: Community Service Program Manager

VISION

A world where no child at no time, should go hungry! No child should be hungry for nutrition, education, shelter, medical services, and opportunities to achieve their full potential.

Objectives

MAJOR OBJECTIVES

The project aims to assist the Project PEARLS group on providing learning resources for the youth
To provide short but effective learning courses that is easily understandable, and applicable to real-life scenarios
Project PEARLS aims to provide accessible education to help students, especially at this time of pandemic. By making video presentations with voice-overs, we made sure to make the learning environment casual, entertaining and conducive to learning

Implementation

Phase 1: TODA Moon

Day 1 (Feb 11) - Setting up Social Media Accounts and Donations Box

The social media accounts needed for the TODA Moon Project were created as well as the donation drive. account.

Day 2(Feb 24) - Creating Content for Posts and Test Streams,

The pubmats designs were initially prepared as well as testing OBS for streaming as well as captions and content.

Day 3(Mar 8) - Initital Pubmat Designs and Possible Art Comissions

The pubmats designs were designed based on the game Rocket League color themes as well as the layout together with additional drawing to be used in selling stickers.

Day 4(Mar 17) - Setting up Gforms as well as creation of Rulebook /Guidelines for the tournament

Creating Google Forms for team registration as well as guidelines necessary for the tournament.

Day 5(Mar 21-27) -Finishing Pubmats and graphics needed for OBS, and stream setup.

Final changes on pubmat designs as well as posting on social media and finishing graphics used as overlays for the livestream

Day 6(April 4-8)- Finding Participants for Tournament

Posting on Rocket League Discord to find players for the tournament.

Phase 2: Project PEARLS

Day 1 (April 20) - Filling up of Orientation Forms & Selection of Topics

The group members accomplished the initial forms before starting the project. After providing basic information and contact details, 3 topics were chosen for the project, specifically Math topics for Grades 7 and 8 students.

Day 2 (April 21) - Script Making

After choosing the topics, the scripts were created through a collaborative document so that each member can contribute insights for each topic.

Day 3 (April 22) - Voiceover and Visual Aids for the Videos

Accomplishing the script means we can now proceed to doing the audio recordings and visual aids for the videos! For the presentation, we used one template for uniformity.

Day 4-7 (April 23-26) - Creation of the Videos

As soon as the presentations and recordings were finished, they were incorporated to each other to create 3 videos for each topic

Day 7 (April 26) - Emailing to Project PEARLS

Finally, after editing the videos, they were emailed to Project PEARLS for checking and approval of the created videos for the students!

Results

Although TODA MOON was scrapped due to difficulty in recruiting participants for the tournament, the contribution effort to Project PEARLS yielded 3 educational math videos about measurements and complex fractions.

You can view the videos here:

G7-12-2.1 Measurements by Miguel Pangilinan, Robert Embornal.mp4

Measurements

G7-13-2.2 Measuring Lengths by EG Agoot, Carl Bermudez.mp4

Measuring Length

G8-19-2.5 Complex Fractions by Tom Carani.mp4

Complex Fractions

Sustainability

Since our videos will be made available online through the Project PEARLS website, we ensured that they are made of quality and family-friendly for the viewers, especially high school students. We also hope that this will encourage others in the future to volunteer and help in creating learning materials for children that can not or have limited access to education.

Conclusion

Recommendation

Project PEARLS helps those without access to schools due to socio-economic constraints and other issues. By creating videos that are accessible online and teach essential mathematical concepts, we are helping provide knowledge that is out of reach for some children because of the lack of access to proper education for various reasons. These concepts are packaged into quick and easy-to-understand videos that can be easily applied in real life situations.

The crucial detail to this project is knowing the intended audience for the videos. In this case, kids, primarily elementary school and early high school students, will be the ones making use of the videos. The key for the project to be effective is having the videos easy to digest and understand. The videos are recommended to be presented with creative ways of expressing the content for the benefit of the children. CHILDREN VIVA LA VIDA!!

Reflection

SS Reflection Video.mp4

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