Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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Getting Involved
While we want to help as many children as we want, we believe that it is very important to be effective. We are not after creating empty propaganda. Instead, we want to make sure that we extend ourselves to each child who wants to learn. Since we do not have the numbers, we will not be able to reach everyone. But we want to ensure that for each child we help, we will have given that child the best possible quality time and quality mentoring to the standards that ePerformax gives its own clients. If each of us can help only one child at a time, and bring that child to read and advance, then our effort will have been worth it.
How ePerformax Employees Can Get Involved
Since we will be putting up one children’s library a month in a new school, we will need your help in donating children’s books for grade levels one to six. We also want to schedule reading sessions with the pupils at least once a month. Program leaders can help create schedules to make these activities regularly running and effective. Reading sessions will also provide the opportunity for ePerformax volunteers to teach children the right way to communicate in English.
How YOU Can Get Involved
We hope that in due time, others will see the sincerity and significance of Project READ that good people and organizations will want to help.
Project READ and ePerformax
Brief History
Project READ resulted from individual and group studies and experiences of ePerformax staff members in the course of working with potential recruits.
Their research yielded the following realities which aroused concern:
While there were a lot of better paying jobs for Filipinos who had a good command of the English language, there were not enough Filipinos who could qualify.
Job seekers who come from middle income means and higher had better chances to land good jobs because they are more proficient in English and can help themselves to more books to improve themselves.
Job seekers who learned English at a younger age tend to have little trouble adjusting to global standards and communication challenges. The younger one develops English skills, the higher the chances of success later on in life.
Monetary assistance to the poor tend to be short-lived and non sustaining, but providing them skills for self-help gave them a chance for a better future. Cultivating English proficiency and access to books may provide a solution.
Contact Us
- email us at projectread.manila@gmail.com
- visit us at ePerformax Contact Centers 2nd f BPI Buendia Center Senator Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City
- call us at (02) 490-2288
Project READ
Project READ is ePerformax’s advocacy reading program designed to help public school pupils gain mastery in reading in English. As an empowerment tool, Project READ aims to start a movement that will inspire others to help Filipino children achieve a meaningful English literacy that will lead to a level of proficiency that will bridge beneficiaries to the opportunities available in our knowledge-driven world.
Objectives of Project READ
Short term: To plant the seeds that will awaken a love for reading and eventually communicating well in English
Long term: Uplift poor communities by empowering them to discover self-help opportunities open to those who read and can communicate well in English.

