Army launches Peace Book

From the Philippine Information Agency (Jun 25): Army launches Peace Book

1003rd Infantry Brigade Commander Col. Harold Cabreros together with partner organizations on Tuesday at Tagum Cooperative Social Hall the Peace Book project.

Col. Cabreros said that the Peace Book project is a part of the Quest for PEACE program of their brigade, which is an acronym for Political stability, Economic prosperity, Agrarian emancipation, Cultural and religious recognition; and Educational advancement.

He stressed that the Peace Book project will help students, especially those indigenous people who are in Grade 3 to continue their studies through providing them with their needs.

“Initially, we will start with Grade 3 pupils because we found out during our needs assessment that most of the students in the IP communities will just finish Grade 2 and will no longer enrol in Grade 3,” Cabreros said.

He added that most of those, who drop out, wanted to go schooling but were hindered by poverty. “They would rather buy food with the money they have than pay it for schools expenses,” he said.

Cabreros stressed that they had accounted more than 300 children with this state in Talaingod alone. “We will start with our indigenous children in Talaingod and hopefully, we could expand with the help of more partners,” he said.

As a launching of the Peace Book Project, the Tagum Cooperative and the Rotary Club of Tagum Golden Laces were the first partners of the 1003rd Infantry Brigade.

Cabreros disclosed that the partnership will include but not limit to adopt a pupil program, books and school kits distribution, book reading session, feeding activity, medical outreach and cleaning drive.

He said that in their study on the adopt a pupil program, one pupil will only spend around P1,500 for the whole school year.

“With the assistance of the Department of Educatoin, we will endorse the pupil to its sponsor and this will be like a fostering program for the child’s education,” he said.

He said that companies, who want to be a partner of the said program, can contact their brigade for details.

http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/2871435209276/army-launches-peace-book