Tanauan,
Leyte -- Department of Education ( DepEd)
Region 8 Director Sol Matugas disclosed the Regional
Awardees for the 2008 National Literacy Award
of the Literacy Coordinating Council.
Director Matugas said that pursuant to DepEd
Memorandum 59 series of 2008 entitled 2008 Literacy
Awards, Region 8 conducted the Regional Search
for the awardees of the 2008 National Literacy
Awards.
Among the Regional Awardees is Lt. Colonel Lenard
T. Agustin, Commanding Officer of the 63rd Infantry
(Innovator) Battalion of the 8th Infantry Division
of the Philippine Army based in Barangay Opong,
Catubig, Northern Samar, for the Outstanding Literacy
Program with project sites at Barangays Opong,
Corocorong, Hangi and Guyo.
Barangay Chairmen Teresita
J. Casio, Apolinar Tafala, Jr and Rolado Enero
of Barangays Guyo, Las Navas; Hangi of Las Navas;
and Corocorong, San Roque, all of Northern Samar,
are also cited.
Another Awardee is Honorable Mayor Alfred Romualdez
of Tacloban City, as the Outstanding Local Government
Unit, Component City Category.
Tanauan, Leyte Mayor, Hon. Roque A. Tiu, is
Regional awardee for the Outstanding Local Government
Unit Municipal Category for the first to third
class municipality. With him, Barangay Captain
Claro Fulton P. Morantte of Barangay Licod,
Tanauan was also cited.
For the Outstanding Local
Government Unit fouth to sixth class municipality
category, Mayor Pedro V. Fustanes, Jr. Of Bontoc,
Southern Leyte is the Regional Awardee.
Director Matugas said that
awards will be distributed during the 33rd Founding
Anniversary of the Department of Education Regional
Office 8 on August 21-22, 2008.
The 2008 National Literacy
Awards is a project of the Literacy Coordinating
Council and the Department of Education, in support
of the National Government's commitment to achieve
the United Nations Millennium Development Goal
of reducing adult illiteracy by half in 2015,
and consequently improve the quality of life of
the Filipino.
Through the 2008 National Literacy
Awards, the National Literacy Council hopes
to mobilize all sectors of society, government
agencies, non-government organizations, local
government units and the entire society to promote
and disseminate the importance of literacy to
national progress and consequently inspire them
to develop, implement and sustain literacy programs
and projects throughout the country.
The National Literacy Award aims to encourage
the development and replication of innovative,
creative and indigenous literacy programs and
projects.
The National Literacy Awards has two categories:
the Outstanding Literacy Program Award and the
Outstanding Local Government Unit Award. The
Outstanding Literacy Program Award shall be
given to a literacy program being implemented
by a non-government or civic organization, academic
institution, which has evident positive impact
on the learners and the community. The program
should have contributed to the transformation
of learners into productive and more responsible
community members.
The Local Government Unit Award shall be given
to a local government unit, city or municipal
government, which has developed policies, programs
and projects conducive to literacy development
and which have efficaciously made a positive
impact on the barangays and the quality of life
of the people.
The Local Government Unit Award will be given
to one highly urbanized city, component city,
municipal level Class A and Class B. Class A
includes the first class up to third class municipalities
while Class B includes the 4th class to 6th
class municipalities.
The Awarding for the national winners will coincide
with the convention of the National Literacy
Council in the third week of September.
The Literacy Coordinating
Council is an inter-agency body that is tasked
to provide overall policy and program direction
to the country's literacy development efforts
committed to create and maintain an environment
for the development and promotion of literacy
skills geared towards the attainment of a literate
Philippines. It is premised on RA 7165, An Act
Creating the Literacy Coordinating Council, defining
its powers and functions, appropriating therefore
and for other purposes. (PIA 8) |
