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Child’s Dream Campaignis a scholarship program
launched last August 2004 that aims to support
the education of AKCDF preschool indigent
children and assist in the continuing education
of AKCDF former graduates who are enrolled in
elementary, high school, and non-formal
vocational courses. Through fundraising concerts,
study tours, bazaars, video documentary
production and sale of Mr. Paul Galang’s
music CDs, the program is able to help address
the “hidden cost” of education
(transportation, food, school supplies, etc.) of
these children, which is mainly the cause as to
why their families could not afford to send them
to school.
 Under A Child’s Dream Campaign
is the Jam for the Rights of
Children, a music festival organized by
AKCDF. It aims to encourage children and youth to
actively take part in the advocacy of promoting
and protecting their rights and welfare through
music and arts. AKCDF believes that the best
front liners of forwarding such advocacy must be
the children and youth themselves and that they
have the capacity to significantly participate in
such action.
Specifically, the
project aims to fulfill the following objectives:
1. Organize
songwriting workshops, music festivals and
songwriting competitions that would encourage the
active participation of children and youth to
express their views on the importance of
respecting their rights and welfare through the
medium of music.
2. Create
community-based children and youth cultural
activity centers that would serve as venue for
cultural development activities and social
education on the rights and welfare of children
and youth in various communities.
3. Produce CDs and
cassettes of songs on children’s rights that
can be used as educational materials for the
popularization of the rights and welfare of
children.
4. Unite and
develop initiatives of different children and
youth care, welfare and development centers on
the advocacy of children’s rights through
music and arts.
The Jam for the
Rights of Children Music Festival will be
implemented in cooperation with various sectors
of society and is seen to be the most effective
way in popularizing issues of children and youth
concerns.
Abakadang Kayumanggi
Community Development Foundation, Inc.
21 Camia St., OLVINA Subdivision Bo. Potrero
Malabon 1475 Metro Manila
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