Leyte First District receives 200 thousand books

Press Release
By Provincial Media Relations Center (PMRC-Leyte)
June 17, 2007

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte  –  More than 200,000 books are set to be distributed to various elementary and high schools in Leyte’s First District through a project initiated by Congresswoman Remedios “Matin” Petilla with the Books for the Barrios Foundation.

Books for the Barrios Foundation is a philanthropic organizations shipping hundreds of thousands of books, educational materials, school textbooks, computers, science kits, toys and games, athletic equipment and consumable school supplies across the country.

The vision to touch the lives of thousands of young minds across the province through sufficient supply of school books would be among the projects to be undertaken by the outgoing lady solon before she ends her term this June.

According to Cong. Petilla, she used her congressional fund to pay for the freight and handling of the more than 200 thousand books which came in a total of 446 boxes.

The books, the lady solon disclosed, could be used as reference materials for both elementary and high schools in the district.

“The books will be distributed kon hain gud iton nanginginahanglan. There are already recommendations and hopefully matagan naton tanan nga schools para magsarahid ini hira ha First District,” Cong. Petilla said.

Assessments on adequacy of available school books and reference have already been made by her congressional office to determine which schools in the district could become the recipients.

The more than 200 thousands books are currently being sorted out for distribution before the end of this month.

Cong. Petilla added the Books for the Barrios Foundation first had this project in Carigara town some years back when she was still governor of the province.

The pilot project undertaken in Carigara proved to be successful prompting the foundation to offer another donation this time for the First District of Leyte.

Books for the Barrios is a foundation that started with a simple project which was to organize American schoolchildren to gather, ship and distribute books, computers, typewriters and educational aids from America to the Philippines while helping protect the environment in California by recycling its books and educational materials that are normally just discarded in dump sites.