DAVAO CITY – Vice President Sara Duterte lauded the final leg of the inaugural Philippine Book Festival at SMX Convention Center at SM Lanang here on Friday, August 18.
“We are fortunate to host this event in our beloved city in time for the Kadayawan Festival,” Duterte said as she welcomed all the book and Kadayawan festival guests and spectators to Davao.
Duterte said the MATATAG Curriculum, an improved version of the K-10 program, hopes to correct the program’s flaws that affected the learners’ writing and reading skills contributing to learning losses. Duterte said she believes that books and other related reading materials could change lives, and through books and other relevant reading materials, they want to change the lives of the learners.
"This is a strong assertion of the role of books in our lives as individuals and as a nation,” Duterte said, adding that the importance of these authors, creators, and the likes’ work is something that everyone cannot overemphasize. “By promoting our homegrown authors, illustrators, and publishers, we not only give voices to stories that have been waiting to be told for so long, we also celebrate them,” she added.
Loren said in a speech read by the Adarna House Philippines Vice President Ani Almario that as deeply dedicated and committed to promoting education and literacy in the country, she supports the endeavors of the NBDB to help young ones engage into books.
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