The campaign is part of the Philippine Book Development celebration.
On Tuesday, Nov. 8, the mobile library visited Teofilo V. Fernandez Elementary School in Indangan, Buhangin this city carrying 1,965 book titles.
City Information Office (CIO) in its report said that this is fifth public school visited by the mobile library’s literacy program since its post pandemic relaunching.
The report said all 2,655 grade school pupils in said school were able to access the library’s circulation and choose any book they wish to read.
Aside from book-reading and story-telling activities, the Magbasa Ta literacy campaign also includes a disaster preparedness and awareness orientation and film viewing.
CLIC-Book Mobile Library program head Arniel Enoc said the mobile library will visit 10 other schools this month.
The campaign aims to encourage the love of learning in children as well as to re-acquaint young readers with the consumption of printed content, as most of them spent the past two years of the pandemic locked indoors, consuming online digital content.
He said the Magbasa Ta campaign prioritizes the most far-flung schools and barangays in the city with little to no access to public libraries.
Enoc said their goal is really to help the children in far-flung barangays.
“We prioritize the most far-flung areas because they cannot easily visit the City Library and the District Libraries,” Enoc said.
45 other schools in far-flung areas in the city are the next target areas to be visited by the library scheduled from November 9 to April, 2023.
The mobile library will also be visiting remote barangays during the summer break to further promote literacy across the city.
Photo from Davao City Library and Information Center
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