Changemaking Education is an approach where students are empowered to create positive change in their communities. In this approach, they are equipped with knowledge and skills on empathy, teamwork, collaboration, leadership, and creative problem solving.*

At Move to Change Foundation Inc., our Changemakers Scholarship Program (CSP) enables our scholars to be equipped with the skills to become Changemakers and enact change in their communities. 

Scholars from Manila, Cebu, and Mindanao were carefully selected with partner institutions based on their economic condition, character, and their eagerness to contribute to the community and the country. After this process of student and parent interviews and screening, selected scholars are awarded the scholarship that will support their studies financially. Moreover, these scholars will undergo a changemaking orientation where they will gain skills needed to create a changemaking project. 

The scholarship program aims to have scholars create changemaking projects that will impact their communities positively. In the process, the organization also aims to teach the selected scholars ways to make their changemaking sustainable by introducing the concept of social entrepreneurship. This scholarship program does not just financially support the scholars, but they are also capacitated and empowered to bring change in the issues they see in their community. 

This International Day of Education, we, at Move to Change envisions a world where the youth are capacitated early to become agents of change. We envision a future where the youths have the capacity and the skills to take on issues that are affecting their communities and issues that they are passionate about. 

Let us move together to create a future where our youths are empowered to be the change they want in this world. #

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List of References:

 *Changemaker Education | Ashoka Canada. (2024, August). Ashoka Canada. https://ashokacanada.org/programs/changemaker-education/

Written by April Grace Garcia (Team Member for Social Media and CSP)

Guided by Mark Lee Babaran (CSP Prime Mover)