ASIA/PHILIPPINES-Even a truck can become a classroom

Manila (Fides Service)- A truck has been turned into a classroom so that it can accommodate up to 25 students at once and will offer lessons from Monday to Friday for four hours a day for children and street children left to themselves who live in the area of Laguna, in the South of Manila. The first courses that will begin are Electronics and Motorcycle repair. The first will teach techniques regarding the repair of electrical appliances such as fans, TV, electrical outlets, circuits and wiring, and mobile phones. At the end of the course participants will receive a National Certificate (NC2) issued by the Authority for Technical Education and Skills Development. The second course is aimed at the utility in a social community that uses the motorcycle as a common means of transport. The idea of a mobile classroom was thought by a volunteer lay person involved in the village for street children in Tuloy, as a response to the growing number of pupils leaving schools in the country. The most common causes, according to the children themselves, is the lack of money for public transport and the need to work. The area where the truck will move is included in the diocese of San Pablo, a suffragan of the archdiocese of Manila. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 26/07/2011)