Message from
ARTURO "BOBBY" C. TANYAG
District Governor, RY 2022 - 2023 | Rotary Club of Pasig South
We welcome the month of September of this Rotary Year as our Basic Education and Literacy Month, a very timely and opportune time for all Rotary Clubs to engage in community service projects related to this particular area of focus of The Rotary Foundation. All Rotary Clubs in our District gave all out support to the schools reopening to face-to-face classes with very significant donations in full support of preparing the public schools, gearing them for the new stringent protocols demanded in the post-Covid 19 era.
The outpouring of support to the adopted schools went beyond the usual traditional Brigada Eskwela-effort of repainting all classrooms school premises, into projects focused on restoring learning proficiency of the pupils belonging to the lower grades whose reading and speaking abilities seemed to have been stunted with the distance learning system of the pandemic era.
It is heartwarming to note that most of the clubs in our District have embarked on sponsoring supplemental reading sessions the whole year or supplemental tutorial sessions for short periods of time.
The decline in reading abilities of elementary grade pupils has been acknowledged as real by the Department of Education.
Rotarians and Rotaractors alike have instantaneously reacted by providing tutorial sessions to primary grade pupils volunteering to sponsor supplementary learning session hours by regular teachers or even mentoring the pupils themselves. Other Rotary Clubs have been granted District Grant allocations for full learning and mentoring sessions to elevate the reading abilities of the lower grade pupils.
Global Grants have likewise been applied and approved by Rotary International for the distribution of electronic tablets to various schools to aid both teachers and students in facilitating the conduct of classroom instruction and dissemination of worksheets more efficiently and with much ease. Donations of wi-fi connectivity subscriptions have likewise been sponsored by Rotary Clubs in our District.
All the 64 Rotary Clubs in our District which have been scheduled for Governor's Visits have at least two commendable projects dedicated to this particular area of focus, Basic Education and Literacy. All clubs have pledged to imagine a world where children are able to read and write at an early age, and have included service projects related to the fulfilment of increasing rates of literacy not only among the elementary pupils but in the higher grades as well with open libraries being built and filled with book donations to encourage all students to read to further improve their basic knowledge and reading proficiencies.
The commitment to basic education and literacy by all the clubs in our district is a noteworthy endeavor and undertaking dedicated to upgrading the reading and learning abilities of children in our communities which will help inspire them to seek further knowledge that will motivate them to succeed in life and become responsible citizens of the future.
i doff my hats off to all our Imaginative Amazing Presidents for their passionate and dedicated commitment to contribute their time and talent to help young children develop reading, writing, and story-telling abilities which are requisite to ensure a successful quest for more knowledge in their lifelong journey!
