Children in this province now have more opportunities to learn better by reading good books with the recent opening by the Department of Education (DepED) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) of the region’s first Library Hub in this town.
The Library Hub addresses the lack of library facilities in public schools in the province by making books available for borrowing in bulk by local teachers for 25 days, for their use in the classroom or for their students to borrow.
To kick the hub’s opening, DepEd-ARMM partnered with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS2) Project, in the provision of close to 6,000 English, math and science books for the hub.
The books were donations of the US-based Brother’s Brother Foundation, one of the world’s largest private book donors.
The opening of Library Hubs nationwide is a project of DepEd to realize its goal of enhancing the country’s literacy by making more Filipino children readers.
The ARMM especially needs assistance in raising the local functional literacy level, which is the lowest nationwide, due to widespread poverty and armed conflict.
“We have pledged to face the challenges of education in the ARMM and we are serious in improving the literacy level of our schoolchildren and youth here in the region,†said DepEd-ARMM Secretary Udtog Kawit.
USAID’s EQuALLS2 Project has already provided 800,000 books to 741 public elementary schools in the ARMM and Regions 9 and 12, and will provide a million more books by 2011. It is helping DepEd improve basic education in the ARMM and Regions 9 and 12 by supplementing educational infrastructure and materials, strengthening capacity for teaching English, math and science, and training out-of-school youth. (PNA)
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