Kahon ng Karunungan is a non-profit organization that aims to reduce educational inequity in the Philippines and around the world. KnK has reached over 10,000 students across four continents. Our best work below
We distributed over 1000 kits to Venancio Trinidad Sr. Memorial School, a public elementary school, which was heavily affected by the Taal Volcano Eruption, due to its close proximity to the volcano.
Classes were disrupted for a month after the eruption and students of the school were forced to either integrate into schools farther from the region or sacrifice their education. The principal showed us a picture of part of a classroom that collapsed due to ashfall.
Malagnat National High School
We aided in the reconstruction of 2 classrooms in the high school. We distributed the kahons to the 327 students of Malagnat National High school - a school still suffering from the destruction caused by Typhoon Ompong. We also donated 2 laptops to the school, 50 armchairs, and a printer to keep up with the demands of distance learning during the pandemic.
As a result of the typhoon, the school had to build various temporary learning shelters to continue classes. However, due to limited resources and funds, the school still lacks bathrooms, roofs, school supplies, and other classroom resources.
Bangsamoro Climate Curriculum x Adhika
In partnership with Adhika, KnK will be launching the first Climate Week curriculum in the BARMM region. It is also the first curriculum in the Philippines that focuses on youth empowerment and individual agency through an adaptation and mitigation strategy. If approved by the BARMM government, the curriclum could reach over 4.5 million residents in the region.
Climate Education x Climate Fresk and PESA Schools
KnK @ AlterCOP
KnK is leading youth affairs and engagement @AlterCOP, the country's national equivalent to COP. KnK is spearheading the inclusion of a youth delegation with over 30 delegates from various Philippine schools and ensuring equal representation amongst public and private schools.
Edicute Collaboration
Edicute Incorporated’s Balik Eskwela Program, in partnership with Kahon ng Karunungan PH (KnK), aims to raise funds for indigenous school children in Sitio Upper Pusog, Occidental, Mindoro for the upcoming School Year 2020-2021.
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Since the indigenous community doesn’t have any access to technology, these Mangyan school children have to go to school to attend their classes physically. Following the protocols of the New normal, our goal is to build better and bigger classrooms for these indigenous school children. We will be providing each student with our self-learning kits that include K-12 workbooks in English, Social Studies, Math, and Sciences that are contextualized to Mangyan culture.
KnK is collaborating with Climate Fresk and PESA, a network of Philippine high schools working on sustainability, to democratize climate science. We will be bringing climate education and systems thinking to over 10,000 students around the Philippines by the end of the year.
International Collaborations
KnK has partnered with a myriad of non-profit organizations from around the world.
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Cause Ambassadorship with ZGameChangers (Singapore) to help with mentoring individuals who want to start their own NGOs and finding solutions to their chosen issue
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Collaboration with Kow Iyo Labo (Minnesota, USA) to create Social Studies workbooks
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Collaboration with Motivate to Educate (Texas, USA) to create Math Workbooks
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Collaboration with Spell For Success (California, USA) to create English Workbooks
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Collaboration on Fundraising with Operation Youth (British Columbia, Canada)
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Collaboration with Intern Net (California, USA) on Remote-learning app
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Collaboration with Digitize Hackathon (California, USA) on Remote-learning App
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Resource Distribution with Godwin Egba (Nigeria)
The KNOW Movement
We launched KNOW (Knowledge Worldwide), a network of youth-led NGOs from all parts of the world, whose mission is to combat educational inequity. Our objectives are as follows:
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Share stories of educational inequity all over the world by reposting pieces from our respective publications
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Share our resources with one another (workbooks, apps, etc.), so we may achieve our objectives more easily (tutoring, outreach trips, etc.)
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Collaborate on projects that can help all of us (ex. College Pathways focuses on scholarship information sessions. We will be hosting one in the Philippines too, and you can also hold information sessions about scholarships in your own community).
