The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Field Office 8 – Eastern Visayas gave due recognition to the tutors and youth development workers (YDWs) who participated in the implementation of Tara Basa! Tutoring Program in the province of Samar.

In a ceremony held on Tuesday (September 17), which served as the culminating activity to wrap up the Tara Basa in the Samar province, FO – 8 Regional Director Grace Subong lauded the college students of Northwest Samar State University (NWSSU) for their service and contribution to the program.

“There is one thing in common from all the messages and testimonies I heard from our stakeholders and beneficiaries, that the program made a significant impact on the lives of our learners, parents, and students,” Director Subong said.

Director Subong led the distribution of Certificates of Recognition and tokens to the student-tutors and YDWs.

In the province of Samar, the Tara Basa Program benefitted a total of 375 college students from the NWSSU and Samar State University.

They received cash-for-work (CFW) based on the prevailing regional daily minimum wage in exchange for rendering 20 tutoring and learning sessions from July 1-26.

Under the Tara Basa Program, they were trained to become tutors and YDWs and were deployed in select elementary schools to help improve the reading proficiency of elementary students and hold Nanay-Tatay teacher sessions for parents and guardians of the grade school beneficiaries.

The tutors and YDWs have assisted a total of 1,981 learners, and 1,977 parents across two cities and 19 municipalities in the province.

The Tara, Basa! Tutoring Program is the DSWD’s reformatted educational assistance that creates a learning ecosystem, wherein college students will be capacitated and deployed as tutors and YDWs to help improve the reading proficiency of elementary students who are struggling to read or are non-readers.

A total of 120,359 college students, struggling and non-reader elementary learners, and parents from the National Capital Region (NCR), Regions 3 (Central Luzon), 7 (Central Visayas), 8 (Eastern Visayas), 10 (Northern Mindanao), 12 (SOCCSKSARGEN), and CALABARZON participated in the tutoring program.#

Tagalog Version

Tara Basa tutors, YDWs binigyang pagkilala ng DSWD Eastern Visayas

Kinilala ng Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Field Office 8 – Eastern Visayas ang mga tutors at youth development workers (YDWs) na lumahok sa Tara Basa! Tutoring Program sa lalawigan ng Samar.

Sa ginanap na pagtatapos ng Tara Basa program sa Samar province, pinuri ni FO – 8 Regional Director Grace Subong ang mga college students ng Northwest Samar State University (NWSSU) dahil sa kanilang naging kontribusyon sa programa.

“There is one thing in common from all the messages and testimonies I heard from our stakeholders and beneficiaries, that the program made a significant impact on the lives of our learners, parents, and students,” sabi ni Director Subong.

Kasabay nito, pinangunahan ni Director Subong ang pagbibigay ng Certificates of Recognition at tokens sa mga student-tutors at YDWs na nakibahagi sa Tara-Basa program.

Halos 375 college students mula sa NWSSU at Samar State University ang nagbenepisyo sa nasabing programa. Sila ay nakatanggap ng cash-for-work (CFW) batay na rin sa regional daily minimum wage ng kanilang rehiyon, kapalit ng 20 days of tutoring and learning sessions mula July 1-26.

Sa ilalim ng Tara Basa Program, ang mga college students ay dumadaan sa pagsasanay upang mahasa bilang tutors at YDWs . Sila ay idine-deploy sa mga piling eskuwelahan ng elementarya upang tulungan magbasa ang mga batang hirap o hindi makabasa. Gayundin, may training din ang mga magulang ng bata sa pamamagitan ng Nanay-Tatay teacher sessions para sa tamang paggabay sa mga batang mag-aaral.

Natulungan naman ng mga tutors at YDWs ang 1,981 learners, at 1,977 parents ng dalawang bayan at 19 na munisipalidad sa Samar.

Ang Tara, Basa! Tutoring Program ay isang reformatted educational assistance program ng DSWD na naglalayong turuan magbasa ang mga batang maga-aral, sa tulong ng mga college students na nagsisilbing tutors at YDWs.

May kabuuang bilang na 120,359 college students, kabilang na ang mga struggling and non-reader elementary learners, at parents mula sa National Capital Region (NCR), Regions 3 (Central Luzon), 7 (Central Visayas), 8 (Eastern Visayas), 10 (Northern Mindanao), 12 (SOCCSKSARGEN), at CALABARZON ang lumahok sa nasabing programa.#