NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – With a goal of punctuating the importance of education in every Filipino child, at least 40 early grade learners underwent a short reading program led by various stakeholders at an event center in Victorias City on Friday, July 28, 2023.
The children participated in various activities, including educational trivia games and reading sessions. Maria Cristina Penaso, one of the guardians present during the activity, told Rappler the impact the reading program can create in the lives of the children.Primary public school teacher Cristina Beraye also expressed her gratefulness for including some of their early grade learners in the activity.
“The goal of ABC+ project is to develop literacy, numeracy, and social relation skills of our learners in the early grades. We want to emphasize that every learner is a reader and target to achieve the ideal literacy rate for Victorias City and even in the entire province of Negros Occidental,” she said.