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ABOUT US
“I started Teach and Play because I wanted to have a lasting impact on people’s lives. Ever since I was a boy, I would go to Leyte to hand out supplies. I quite enjoyed giving back to the community there every year. But as I grew older, I felt the impact was too temporary to make a real difference. What Teach and Play offers is real change, since we are trying to teach monetizable skills to primarily agricultural communities. If people can learn new skills outside of agriculture and still earn meaningful income, they will continue to flourish even as environmental degradation affects their main livelihood. I hope our students at Teach and Play will learn well enough to teach others, and in the process help their communities explore other opportunities outside of farming.”
THADDEUS GEORGES POMPIDOU comes from a long line of public servants from both sides of the family tree. The difference? He’s a kid. And he enjoys programming. And he knows kids who aren’t as privileged will enjoy it, too. TEACH AND PLAY is his small way of giving back. The New York-educated code whiz wishes to divide his time between his U.S. tech-incubator job and teaching code for the kids of RRCY TANAUAN, LEYTE in his hometown of Tacloban in the Philippines.
THADDEUS GEORGES POMPIDOU comes from a long line of public servants from both sides of the family tree. The difference? He’s a kid. And he enjoys programming. And he knows kids who aren’t as privileged will enjoy it, too. TEACH AND PLAY is his small way of giving back. The New York-educated code whiz wishes to divide his time between his U.S. tech-incubator job and teaching code for the kids of RRCY TANAUAN, LEYTE in his hometown of Tacloban in the Philippines.
“I started Teach and Play because I wanted to have a lasting impact on people’s lives. Ever since I was a boy, I would go to Leyte to hand out supplies. I quite enjoyed giving back to the community there every year. But as I grew older, I felt the impact was too temporary to make a real difference. What Teach and Play offers is real change, since we are trying to teach monetizable skills to primarily agricultural communities. If people can learn new skills outside of agriculture and still earn meaningful income, they will continue to flourish even as environmental degradation affects their main livelihood. I hope our students at Teach and Play will learn well enough to teach others, and in the process help their communities explore other opportunities outside of farming.”
CLASSES
TEACH AND PLAY is basically a program made up of short entry-level courses that aim to teach BASIC PROGRAMMING to underprivileged youth. We want to bring learning back to basics, meaning in a manner that doesn’t alienate, intimidate, or exclude. Make sure to create an account to be able to access our downloadable modules below.
NEWS
Life changing skills: Filipino teens receive the gift of options from other teens
Teens at a local Regional Rehabilitation Center for Youth (RRCY) have seen their life opportunities improve as they learned computer coding through a program by Teach and Play, a teen-created initiative.
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