CEMEX Philippines Foundation, Inc. and Sa Aklat Sisikat Foundation (SAS) executives join students from Cabarrus and Sapinit Elementary Schools during the culminating acitivity. |
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"The reading program may have ended today, but your joy for reading and understanding of stories have actually just begun," said CEMEX Philippines Foundation President Jaime Ruiz de Haro during the Culminating and Turnover Ceremonies of the month-long CEMEX-Sa Aklat Sisikat (SAS) Reading Program held at the Solid Plant on March 23.
Close to four hundred Grade 4 students from CEMEX Philippines Foundation's adopted schools - Cabarrus and Sapinit - "graduated" from the intensive Reading Program organized to develop a lifetime habit of reading.
SAS President Margarita Delgado stressed that the objective of SAS is to build a nation of readers, believing that "reading is a weapon against poverty." |
Students check-out the cart filled with books which will serve as a mobile library for the schools. |
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The event's highlights include the turnover of a mobile cart with reading materials. The mobile cart will become a mini-library that will provide students of all levels access to the interesting reading materials, some of which were given by Hongkong Shanghai Bank and the Asia Foundation.
Also present during the turnover ceremonies were Lizzie Zobel, SAS' Vice President and Treasurer, Sergio Menendez, CEMEX Philippines Foundation Board of Trustee, CEMEX Philippines Foundation Executive Director Paul Victor Aquino, and Efren Balajadia, Director of The Asia Foundation. |
