PABA is proud to participate in the De La Salle BookMobile and Reading Program, a pilot literacy initiative organized by De La Salle University in Manila. La Salle is asking state-side Pilipinos to send any new or used books for children (including, but not limited to, fantasy, science fiction, comics, etc.). Any books collected will be distributed by a mobile book bus.
Envisioned to provide less-privileged public elementary school children access to Lasallian education, the De La Salle BookMobile and Reading Program aims to be a “visible and effective expression to the creative and redemptive love of God for the young people,” by the promotion of learning through reading, says BrotherMawel Pajarillo, FSC, the program's founder. He emphasizes that “the education of the young in remote communities does not necessarily have to be far-off.”
With the bus designed as a mobile library (it will also house audio-visual equipment and portable outdoor classroom set-ups) the De La Salle BookMobile is committed to visit the neediest public elementary schools with 700 to 1000 story books for poor children, offer guided reading programs and book-lending opportunities, and organize tutorial and remedial sessions in order to grant the young a chance to enjoy the benefits of reading and learning.
La Salle will gauge the success of the pilot program to decide whether to expand it. If you have any materials you wish to donate, please contact
Arnold Pamplona and he will coordinate delivery. If you have questions about the BookMobile program, you may contact Ms. Cristina Hilado at
cfhilado@yahoo.com or visit
this Website.
