ComVal conducts Summer Big Brother for literacy

NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley Province, May 11 – Another bright side for the province’s summer fun, was the conduct of “Summer Big Brother! Reading is Fun!” The Summer Big Brother is a reading and literacy program for selected grades 1 and 2 pupils of three pilot schools, namely:  Panoraon Elementary School of Maco, Bukal Elementary School, and Matagdungan Elementary School, both of Nabunturan.

The summer project which started on April 17, and was concluded on May 8 was one of the components of “Compostela Valley: Transforming Education Today (COMET)” launched by the Alcantara Foundation.

The project was part of the foundation’s corporate social responsibility, in partnership with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), provincial government, Department of Education (DepEd), and the communities.

COMET, an education reform program is also a substantial support to Project ARTURO or Accelerated Readers, Tomorrow’s Ultimate Response to Opportunities which readies an environment of towering aptitude for children’s reading capabilities.

Governor Arturo T. Uy who is an advocate to quality education sent some volunteer-scholars of the provincial government who assisted the volunteer-teachers of the Department of Education to facilitate the actual summer reading camp.

These teachers were also sent to a two-day Teachers’ Training conducted by DepEd Sarangani in Alabel, Sarangani a week before the start of the summer reading program. With them was Grace T. Antonio of Matangad Elementary School, a Project ARTURO awardee.   (IDS-Comval/Grace Almedilla)