MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, June 05 (PIA) --- The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a 3-year adult literacy project, here, to improve the basic and functional literacy among adults in this province.
Dubbed “Literacy for Peace and Development (LIPAD),” the project aims to provide adult learners with critical consciousness on conflict prevention and peace making as part of the learning process that will allow them to participate meaningfully in the fashioning of peace and development in their own communities.
The project was simultaneously done in the five (5) provinces of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) last June 1.
In Lanao de Sur, LIPAD was launched in Barangay Raya Buntong in Buadipuso-Buntong town, one of the four (4) towns in the province identified to benefit from the project of the Magbassa Kita Foundation, Inc. (MKFI).
The other towns are Marantao, Ditsaan-Ramain, and Saguiaran, Aquino Macarampat, LIPAD Project Provincial Coordinator, said.
Macarampat said LIPAD aims to produce a total of 12,500 adult learners in the province at the end of the three-year project with a target of 1,250 learners in the first batch.
This, he said, can be achieved through the conduct of series of basic and functional literacy classes in the identified 25 barangays of the province.
He disclosed that Buadipuso-Buntong has eight (8) participating barangays, Saguiaran has five (5), while Ditsaan-Ramain and Marantao has six (6) participating barangays, each.
Meanwhile, beneficiaries of the 3-year project have expressed their appreciation and gratitude over the project.
Hadja Somaya Madale, a 65-year old from Brgy. Raya Buntong in Buadipuso-Buntong, said she is very excited to learn how to read and write.
She explained that her parents did not send her to school because they were afraid she will be ‘Christianized.’
On the other hand, 68-year old Panontongan Dimaampao from Brgy. Lubo Lininding in Marantao said he was not able to go to school during his younger years due to poverty and that he is happy with the opportunity to learn and write now. (PIA-10)
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