Mobile KART Project: Empowering through Education project to be launched in Cebu

Empowering through Education project to be launched in Cebu

Empowering the out-of-school youth in the Philippines got a shot in the arm with the conceptualization of an innovative mobile classroom project in Cebu.

The project is called the “Mobile KART Project” and was proposed by SEED4COM got further improved after it was declared as one of the Top Three winners at the “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” philanthropic campaign which started out last year. Winning this campaign means having the opportunity to create more mobile classrooms that will benefit more out-of-school youth in wide areas in Cebu.

The aim was noble: to assist Cebu’s youth, particularly from poor and marginalized families, and to provide them with free access to education with diverse and free-of-charge training courses that will educate them even in the midst of an exhausting pandemic.

The project will be officially inaugurated and launched in October 2022 in different locations in Cebu City such as Cordoba, Lapu-Lapu City, and Olango Island, among others. It would become doubly significant since the launch will be accompanied by the holding of the annual Taiwan-Philippines Joint Economic Conference.

The innovative and creative Mobile KART is not like any mobile classroom. It is equipped with solar panels, laptops, an audio system, a LED TV display,  and even routers for mobile internet connection, and all are Taiwan Excellence Award-winning products.

Courses such as “Transformative Educational Access for the Communities and Homes” and “Technology Vocational Livelihood Skills Training.” are offered at The Mobile KART Project. These courses are intended to teach the poor youth in Cebu’s poverty-stricken areas valuable life skills and teach them the benefits of reading. Hopefully, those skills will furnish them with the knowledge they can use to improve their livelihood or pursue higher education when opportunities arise.

The “Mobile KART Project” is a mobile classroom that originated in Cebu and was part of several initiatives connected to education by Sustainable Energy and Enterprise Development for Communities or SEED4COM (https://www.seed4com.org/). This organization was established to help upgrade human conditions and empower poverty-stricken areas and rural and last-mile communities in the Philippines.

Truly, the “Mobile KART Project” winning at the “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” was a proud moment not just for SEED4COM but also for the country, according to Dann Diez, Executive Director of SEED4COM, considering the huge number of entries.

Organized by the Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the vision of “Taiwan Excellence: Sharing is Caring” was to help make society a better place by giving everyone a chance to raise ideas about charity and other altruistic activities related to the sustainable development of society and environmental protection by using Taiwan Excellence products.