DAVAO City, in partnership with the Department of Education and other sectors, will launch Friday a reading program to develop the love of books and liesurely reading at the People's Park.
The program dubbed "Love Ko ang Libro" is open to everybody especially children.
The reading session will be held every Saturday, 4 p.m. at the park's reading center, Councilor Ma. Belen Sunga Acosta said during Thursday's I-Speak media forum at the City Hall.
"This is part of the "Happy Reader: Future Leader" campaign of the government. This targets children, who are still at their elementary grades, to go back to the basics, to really appreciate holding the books in their hands and read books leisurely in a relaxing environment," Acosta said.
Although the city has a high literacy rate, Acosta said, the city's sectors want to forward a cause that would enhance the means to literature already provided by schools.
"Mataas naman ang city in terms of literacy rate, around 80 to 90 percetn, but this is to become a supplement and not to cancel out what are the available means for reading," said Acosta who is chair of Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on education, arts and culture, science and technology. Acosta said the books that are featured at the reading center are mostly books of Filipino authors.
"The books will be about the Filipino culture, native or folk stories," Acosta said.
"It is not unusual to hear dancing or singing in the park, pero wala pa akong naririnig na may reading center sa isang park. Maybe the city is even first in providing a reading center in this way. she added.
"Research would show na children are more receptive when they are relaxes and that's what the park provides. If parents what their children to spend time reading books and enjoy then this is really a good way to have that," Acosta said.
"Iba yung experience ng reading ng mga bata when they are inside a four-walled library, nagmamadali na makaintindi dahil pagkatapos merong book report o may exam. Mas masarap magbasa ng libro kung nasa lungar ka na nakakarelax at mas naiintindihan mo yung binabasa mo," she added.
Acosta said the maid reason for the program was the rising accounts that children are more attached to computers that to books.
"We don't discourage the use of the internet because it is very helpful to research. But there's a lot of difference between gaining grades because you copy and pasted text from the internet and reading an encyclopedia," Acosta said.
"I also do not prefer the way movies are shown to students when the movie is based on a books. Mas maganda pa rin yung binabasa ang libro," Acosta said. (Jade C. Zaldivar)
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