"Lead the Change 2010" Knowledge Channel Foundation event today at Rockwell Tent

The Knowledge Channel Foundation will have their first of a kind event today February 17, 2010 at Rockwell Tent. The event is called "Lead the Change 2010". The event is about a gathering of the country's mover and shakers who will join in an evening to discuss on how to move the Philippines straight forward using their respective businesses. Lead the Change 2010 is a multi sectoral collaboration that will deal with people and ask them how best to move our country forward. A plan will be created from different brilliant minds and business people in order to have an action. Knowledge Channel will serve as the vessel and stream for the knowledge and skill gaps in some areas. A big collaboration will take place here,and this will help our country with each little step it takes.

Rina Lopez Bautista (President of the Knowledge Channel) will be there and anticipates the attendance of some of the most high profile business, diplomatic and public officials that will contribute ideas on how to best meet 21st century challenges in the level of arena of education, environment, health, governance, population and peace.

Lead the Change 2010" enables more collaboration for basic education that is purposive in addressing the key drivers of poverty reduction: education, health, population, governance, environment, and peace

s. Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (founder of the Global Philanthropists Circle and Synergoes Institute) will be the guest of honor of the event.

Help provide a public school with Knowledge Channel
This is to give you an idea how much does it cost to connect a public school to Knowledge Channel and encourage the public / community to donate or support:

1. Cable-A-School Sponsorship:
around P100,000 per public school for cable-able schools
around P150,000 per public school for remote schools with satellite dishes

These sponsorships to provide KCh to public schools are inclusive of the following:
- a 29" TV set
- a satellite dish and digital receiver for remote schools
- support services:  teacher and adminstrators training workshop-seminars on "TV-Assisted Instruction", semestral KCh Progam guides, regular monitoring

2. Sponsor a Program:
around P350,000* per 20-minute TV episode and online learning materials

This sponsorship involves the production of a 20-minute television program in Math, Science or English for high school to be aired regularly over the Knowledge Channel, a web-based quiz and game to match the TV episode, learning links and an online exchange forum to deepen learning of students.