Child-focused
organization World Vision partners with the Department of Education (DepEd) to
launch a mobile library in Mandaue City. The library named as Learn and Play
Hub is officially launched to the community at the DepEd Mandaue City Division
Office.
Under the
organization’s Urban Development Project, with the funding from the World
Vision Singapore office, the hub aims to cater children on the streets and
those who are living in the slums and give them access to learning resources,
opportunities for play and life skills development.
“World Vision
is grateful and excited to embark in its first Mobile Learn and Play Hub with
Deped Mandaue City Division. We are expectant that this intervention will bring
more value in helping and reaching kids in the communities even during this
pandemic,” shares Faith Richelle Sy, Program Manager of the World Vision Urban
Development Project.
The project is
foreseeing to reach at least 800 children ages 6 to 14 years old by the year
2023. Its target communities are in districts Mantuyong and Umapad, but it is
expected to reach other districts in the city especially beyond the project
life.
DepEd, as the
main partner, helps oversee the planning, implementation, and the monitoring of
the project. The department also facilitates the mobilization of Alternative
Learning System (ALS) teachers for training and implementation, including the
sustainability of the project.
The Mandaue
City local government unit also supports the project. The University of
Southern Philippine Foundation (USPF) through its Engineering and Architecture
Department also supported the interior designing of the library hub.
“We are all
aware of the effect of this pandemic to the education of our children. The
teaching of reading is greatly affected because it is difficult to teach
reading through modules,” shares Dr. Nimfa Bongo, the Superintendent of DepEd
Mandaue City Division, who also shares her message of commitment during the
ceremony. “The mobile hub with a reading teacher will visit certain areas in
the community. The teacher will conduct reading remedial classes with the help
of the reading materials available in the hub.”
During the
blended face-to-face and virtual project launch, DepEd External Partnerships
Service, USEC. Tonisito M.C. Umali, ESQ, the Mayor of Mandaue City, Jonas
C.Cortes, Regional Director of the DepEd Region 7, Salustiano T. Jimenez, World
Vision Singapore Manager of International Programmes, Kyi Thwin Tun, World
Vision Director of Strategy, Management, Impact, and Learning, Vanessa G.
Reuterma, World Vision Philippines Operations Director, Xenia Legaspi, and
along with other important guests, grace the event.
To know more about World Vision’s 5K
Campaign Challenge and its initiative against COVID-19, please visit https://www.worldvision.org.ph.
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for updates.
About
World Vision
World Vision is a global Christian relief,
development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children,
families, and communities to overcome poverty and injustice. World Vision
serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
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