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Monday, January 23, 2006
Dumangas to launch mobile pre-school program
By Ruby P. Silubrico
THE town of Dumangas Iloilo will launch its first mobile pre-school program on Wednesday.
The program aims to educate out-of-school youths and train parents on livelihood programs.
Mayor Rolando "Rolly" Distura initiated the program with the help of their Municipal Council members and the Department of Education (DepEd).
Distura said this project is a mobile school that offers learning to accelerate bystanders and give livelihood training for the parents without jobs. Basic carpentry and electricity will also be taught to the parents.
It is also an alternative learning system, non-formal education, mobile library, livelihood and health education, moral values and acceleration program.
A mobile truck van with acronym "Rolly" which means Reading Opportunity for Learning and Livelihood for the Youth and Community will go to all barangays in Dumangas. The truck van serves as a library with computer and television that students and parents can use.
Aside of some personnel who will man or serve as teachers, there will be a team that will assess which barangay needs the services most.
"Our mobile school van will probably stay for two weeks in a barangay before transferring to the next. I initiated this program to help the youths who want to go to school but who having financial difficulties as well as provide livelihood to parents," Distura said.
"After attending classes, we will give each of them a certificate of acceleration. This is a sort of innovation. Our main concern here is health, education and environmental sanitation," Distura added.
Distura said it took five years before the program came into being. He conceptualized the project in 2000.
"I created this project after learning that there are youths who have problems with their studies," he said.
Director Carolina Guerrero of the Central Bureau of Alternative Learning System, Iloilo Governor Niel D. Tupas and other local government officials are expected to attend the launching that will start at 9 a.m. in Dumangas gymnasium.
(January 23, 2006 issue)
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