“Kidz in Action” (KIA) is an outreach program at Aguinaldo International School (AIS) that engages less advantaged children in a variety of activities including literacy, art, drama, sports, cooking, life skills and excursion trips. The KIA program provides a safe place in which children can express themselves with no risk of judgement.
KIA aims to help nearby children that live without proper shelter, safety and/or access to school. At present there are 12 ‘KIA Kids’ in the weekend program and two KIA scholars attending AIS on full scholarship. These children have ‘potential’ and each deserves the ‘opportunity’ to discover his or her natural talents. They receive meals & medical care, and they participate in art, drama, sports, cooking, life skill trainings and field trips. Those that show solid character and academic ability transfer into mainstream classes. In this way, KIA provides highly talented ‘street children’ with a pathway from ‘street-life’ to ‘professional-life’. KIA believes that all kids have what it takes to become nurses, doctors, teachers, athletes, ‘you name it’, if only they are given a chance.
KIA aims to help the children become:
1) Healthier through fitness, nutrition and medical & dental care
2) Safer through child rights advocacy and access to social workers
3) Happier through healthy friendships, wholesome activities and participation in outreach projects
4) Smarter through tutorials in English, Math and Technology
5) More skilled in interpersonal relationships, decision making, communication, problem-solving, creative thinking, leadership, responsibility, self-awareness, empathy and coping with stress & emotion.
Tracking success: to follow the KIA kids progress with respect to the project aims, click on the links below:
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