The Department of Education (DepEd) has partnered with Petron Corp. and the charity agency of the United States to spur reading in schools in three subregions of Mindanao.
This was revealed in a memorandum sent by the DepEd National Office and which arrived here just recently.
In the document, Education Secretary Armin A. Luistro said the government entered into a deal after he signed the partnership agreement early this school year with Petron President Eric Recto and Marcial Salvatierra of the United States Agency for International Development He said the USAid will give $1.3 million (P56.420 million at $1=P43.40) for the project while Petron, a publicly listed firm, pledged to provide P21 million.
The DepEd official said his department will supply the policy guidance and direction “to ensure the proper enforcement of the project.”
Luistro said in the memorandum received at the DepEd Region 9 office the program is designed to improve the reading skills of over 45,000 public elementary school children in conflict-affected rural communities in the three Southern Philippines areas.
The Catholic priest identified the three regions as Western Mindanao or Zamboanga Peninsula, Central Mindanao and Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
The program initially provides identified beneficiary schools with teacher training, as well as books and appropriate instructional materials for marginalized grade-school children, Luistro said.
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