Galing Bata

The FEC Galing Bata Program at Bessie Carmichael/Filipino Education Center (FEC) provides gabay (guidance), lingap (care) and bantay (protection) to TK-8th students during the school day, after school and summer. For the past 23 years, we’ve provided linguistically sensitive and culturally responsive programming and services to all interested Bessie/FEC students and their families primarily Filipino immigrant and Filipino American youth who are low-income, English learners, underperforming or disconnected from school, unhoused, living in transition, and/or exposed to violence, abuse, or trauma.

Please support more years of the Galing Bata Program and promote bilingual education for students in San Francisco. Maraming salamat po! Thank you very much!

After School Program

We provide after school programming from Monday-Friday from 3:30-6:00PM.

Our current Filipino enrichments for Spring 2024 are: Sarap Club (TK-1st), Tara Na Club (2nd), SoMaHalaman (3rd-5th), SoMalusog and SoMalikhain (6th-8th).

School Year

A Monday-Friday, school-day service that Galing Bata provides for the Bessie Carmichael Elementary School/FEC. GB Staff come in and help Bessie/FEC K-8th students who need the Filipino Language support while doing their classwork. They also help students with building their skills in reading, writing and comprehension in the Filipino language.

Barkada Biyernes

A safe space and a stress free zone to chill, unwind, play games, eat lunch, learn Filipino values and be in the company of peers and Ate’s & Kuya’s. Everyone is welcome to join us! Make chika, make sama sama, and make jolly saya with us! This program was created in response to supporting the mental health needs of our Filipinx students.

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