Educational assistance that keeps children of incarcerated mothers enrolled, equipped and progressing through school.
KIDS is the Foundation’s flagship child-centred programme. It exists because the first thing a household loses when a mother is detained is not affection but income, and the first expense a household cuts is the one that has no due date attached to it, which is almost always school.
The programme meets that shortfall directly. Enrolled children receive Balik-Eskwela kits at the start of each school year, continuing educational assistance across the year, and access to tutoring support through the Foundation’s partners. Assistance is conditional, transparent and reviewable: scholars submit their report cards each grading period through the Scholar Portal, and continued support is tied to sustained academic standing rather than to a single test.
What the programme delivers
- Balik-Eskwela kits, bags and grade-appropriate school supplies distributed before the school year opens
- Continuing educational assistance released per grading period
- Academic monitoring through the Scholar Portal
- Tutoring and remediation referrals for scholars placed under academic review
The academic standard
Continued educational assistance under KIDS is conditional on academic standing. Scholars submit their report card each grading period through the Scholar Portal, and the Foundation's standard is an average of 85%.
Marks are checked automatically as soon as they are entered, and then read by a human reviewer against the uploaded transcript. Both the automated result and the reviewer's decision are recorded against the submission, so no scholar's standing rests on an unexamined calculation.
| Result | What happens |
|---|---|
| 85% and above | Good standing. Assistance continues into the next grading period. |
| 80 to 84.9% | Academic review. Assistance continues, tutoring is arranged, and the scholar is followed up at the next period. |
| Below 80% | Case conference with the caseworker, the guardian and, where possible, the mother. Assistance is reviewed rather than automatically withdrawn. |
Report cards come in several formats in the Philippines. The portal accepts DepEd percentage marks, the 1.00 to 5.00 university scale, and letter grades, converting each to a common percentage so that scholars in different school systems are held to the same standard rather than to an accidental one.