BDO Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of BDO Unibank, has signed an agreement with C&E Foundation and Kusog Tacloban for the donation of elementary school teaching materials in areas affected by Typhoon “Yolanda.”
Backed by BDO branches, BDO Foundation will distribute 524 teaching kits in various Tacloban elementary schools. This is in line with the foundation’s disaster response advocacy and the Andam Pag-aram educational program of C&E Foundation and Kusog Tacloban.
Used specifically in the context of studying, Andam Pag-aram is a local term that means “prepare to learn.”
BDO Foundation trustees Lucy Co Dy and Jerome Guevarra, Kusog Tacloban president Teresa Custodio, and C&E Publishing chief operating officer John Emyl Eugenio signed the memorandum of agreement.
C&E Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in the Philippines. It provides scholarships and supports schools with disadvantaged students.
Kusog Tacloban, likewise a non-profit, aims to strengthen the resilience of communities in provinces devastated by Typhoon “Yolanda.”
This is the second time BDO Foundation, C&E Foundation and Kusog Tacloban are handing out teaching kits after 2015, when five Typhoon “Yolanda”-affected schools where BDO Foundation constructed school buildings received the donations.
Exclusively distributed by C&E Publishing, the teaching kits are designed to help kindergarten and grade one pupils develop their reading ability.
The kits contain phonetic readers, interactive charts, songs, vowel cards and story books. They aid in the teaching and mastery of the alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, sound/letter correspondence, short vowel sounds and blending.