LFP supports ATRIEV
Jessie Gervacio is one of the beneficiaries of Liliane Foundation through ATRIEV
In 2007, atriev, the only school for the blind in the Philippines that specializes in information and communications technology, qualified as one of Liliane’s growing partners.
To Date, there are over 80 ATRIEV students who are direct beneficiaries from Liliane Foundation’s support. Aside from assistance for the students’ tuition fee, transportation and meal subsidy and assistive devices, Liliane Foundation’s support expanded up to students’ monthly dormitory fee, school miscellaneous fee, medical assistance, and their reader/guide honorarium.
Just this previously concluded school year 2008-2009, one of ATRIEV’s scholars and also a Liliane Foundation direct beneficiary, Jessie Gervacio, recently graduated from an Internet Technology course in AMA Computer Learning Center in Paco, one of the leading computer schools in the Philippines. Jessie was one of ATRIEV’s outstanding students who completed ATRIEV’s Access Technology in Popular Applications for Low Vision course in 2007. He then went on to qualify for a scholarship in AMA Computer Learning Center thus becoming a pioneering integrated visually impaired student in the said school. His tuition fee was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Paco while his transportation cost and other miscellaneous expenses were sponsored by Liliane Foundation Philippines. Jessie has also served as a volunteer trainor of ATRIEV’s summer class for visually impaired children as part of sharing the benefits he earned with his fellow blind students. Jessie is set to participate in a three-day personality awareness and leadership seminar sponsored by PowerSpeak, a leading personality development institution, to prepare him for the challenges of employment.
Truly the partnership between ATRIEV, Liliane Foundation Philippines and other sympathetic institutions have turned the small hopes of visually impaired people to big dreams.