Last October 2005, Accenture joined hands with Bing to support the equivalent of 40 scholars for a period of one year, which took a significant financial load off Bing’s shoulders, after he had received KPI permission to increase seats by 25. Most of the Accenture scholars were new entrants, mostly Grade 1. Their selection was based on the premise that the younger they started with the program, the more years they could spend doing Kumon before graduating from elementary school. On November 30, 2005, Accenture Country Lead Beth Lui with Senior Executive and CSR-in-charge Nescel Asuncion attended the simple ceremony at Libis Elementary School to kick off the one-year Accenture scholarship program. Since then, Bing del Rosario and center director Victor Claravall had provided Accenture with semi-annual reports on the progress of the 40 Accenture scholars. Read in full

Since its opening over three years ago, the library has always been filled in the afternoon with students eager to read, work with PC software, listen to audio tapes, watch video clips, or listen to stories. Bing had made it a point to personally read to the kids twice a week.

For a library to continue to be successful and to draw a consistent crowd day in and day out, it is imperative that the titles – books, software, audio tapes, DVDs – be regularly refreshed. Based on his three-year experience in running the library, Bing had concluded, as a rough rule of thumb, that a quarterly infusion of titles, equivalent to P15,000 to P25,000 worth every three months, was needed. That was aside from the normal operating expenses for repairs and maintenance of computers, audio equipment, lighting fixtures, tables, chairs, shelves, video equipment, etc. Read in full

In 2005, Bing responded to a distress call from school principal Nitz Pangilinan., who feared that a whole Grade 3 section would fail, as the Education Department threatened to strictly enforce a policy of “no read, no pass” for all 3rd graders throughout the country.

What the Foundation I did last year was to cut up section 4 - a class of 50 - into three groups during Filipino and English hours and paid the allowances of two extra teachers. All the textbooks were photocopied and each student was given a complete set. Phonetic, mnemonic and audio-visual learning aids were purchased. Plus, each section 4 child was given a schoolbag - with notebook, pad, pencils, eraser, crayons, illustration board-blackboard, and ruler inside. Finally, the Foundation mounted a modest feeding program, with each child in the section being fed a cup of noodles three times a week. Read in full