Reading program launching Friday
Friday, March 19, 2010
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DAVAO City, in partnership with the Department of Education and other sectors, will launch Friday a reading program to develop the love of books at the People's Park.
The program dubbed "Love Ko ang Libro" is open to everybody especially children.
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The reading session will be held every Saturday, 4 p.m. at the park's reading center, Councilor Ma. Belen Sunga Acosta said during Thursday's I-Speak media forum at the City Hall.
"This is part of the "Happy Reader: Future Leader" campaign of the government. This targets children, who are still at their elementary grades, to go back to the basics, to really appreciate holding the books in their hands and read books leisurely in a relaxing environment," Acosta said.
Although the city has a high literacy rate, Acosta said, the city's sectors want to forward a cause that would enhance the means to literature already provided by schools.
Acosta said the books that are featured at the reading center are mostly books of Filipino authors.
"The books will be about the Filipino culture, native or folk stories," Acosta said. (Jade C. Zaldivar)
