In early January our music team went to several private schools to promote our music tutorial program and our music studio. The effort has ended up with a partnership with one of the schools in more than one Goducate program, and has enabled several students to earn some pocket money.
The school was Morning Star Montessori School. The school management took an interest in our tutorial program, and invited our team to demonstrate their skills in singing, playing and instrument, and teaching. Naively, we expected the school’s approval immediately after the demonstrations. Instead what we got was a promise that the school would call with its decision.
Weeks, then months, passed, and we were about to give up when we received a call in the last week of February to ask us to start a voice-coaching lesson for more than 300 elementary and high school students in 2 of the school’s campuses for a performance during the forthcoming graduation ceremony.
A team of four is now coaching at Morning Star, two at each campus. Each pair will conduct 12 sessions, with each session lasting about 2 h. The team will paid around PhP 40,000 for these lessons. In addition our Harana live-music team of eight persons, four of whom are the trainers at Morning Star, will be paid another PhP 14,000 for two separate performances in the two campuses. Of the eight who are benefitting from this arrangement, 2 are Goducate staff, and the other 6 are college or high-school students.
The School management also came to visit our office to find out more about our work. They took an interest in our Alternative Learning System (ALS) program, through which we help people who have not finished their schooling to continue with their education through the Department of Education’s ALS. They have now offered us the use of two classrooms, one in each campus. This offer will enable us to start new ALS classes.
In addition, Morning Star is also discussing with us how we can partner together to do a feeding program in some government school.
