BDO Foundation receives teaching kits donation

MANILA, Philippines - BDO Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of BDO Unibank, recently received grade school instructional materials donated by C&E Foundation and Kusog Tacloban through their program “Andam Pag-aram.”

The learning kits for kindergarten and grade one students will be turned over to elementary schools built by BDO Foundation in areas affected by Typhoon Yolanda.

This program is in line with BDO Foundation’s reconstruction efforts for provinces devastated by the super typhoon and the “Andam Pag-aram” educational program of Kusog Tacloban and C&E Foundation.

Kusog Tacloban is a non-profit organization that aims to strengthen the resilience of communities in provinces hit by Typhoon Yolanda.

Also a non-profit organization, C&E Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of education in the Philippines. It serves as a resource hub for private schools, providing support for academic institutions with disadvantaged students.

The phonetic kits exclusively distributed by C&E Publishing contain phonetic readers, interactive charts, songs, vowel cards and story books designed to aid in the teaching and mastery of the alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, sound-letter correspondence, short vowel sounds and blending, which are appropriate for kindergarten to first grade pupils. They are aimed at helping children develop their reading ability as early as kindergarten.