World Vision backs DepEd learning plan
INTERNATIONAL charity organization World Vision has expressed its support for the Department of Education’s ( DepEd) Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan ( BE- LCP) to complement the adoption of various learning delivery options considering minimum health standards amid the coronavirus pandemic.
With the joint theme “Pagpapanatili ng Bayanihan Tungo sa Kalidad na Edukasyon para sa Kabataan,” DepEd and World Vision seek to ensure that both online and offline interventions reach millions of students nationwide.
The nonprofit organization is co- lead convener of DepEd’s nationwide reading movement dubbed “Brigada Pagbasa.”
In a statement, World Vision chairman and former chief justice Reynato Puno said the partnership between the Education department and the organization had seen students achieve functional literacy.
“Our decades of collaboration between World Vision and the Department of Education have seen millions of students achieve improved functional literacy through equitable access to age- appropriate, culture- sensitive and contextualized learning process,” Puno said.
The partnership between DepEd and World Vision also extends to fund raising for the production and distribution of printed instructional packets and learning activity sheets.
World Vision said it would mobilize partners to encourage stakeholders to contribute P10 for 10 days to be able to help in implementing the BE- LCP interventions such as distant learning and home schooling.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones stated in a keynote message that World Vision helped them shift to quality education.
“Right now, World helps us in our shift to quality education, the Edukalidad Program,” she said in Filipino. is a portmanteau of the Filipino words ”(ed- ucation) and “kali- lidad” ( quality).
“Because they give advice about technology, and not only about technology but also health and on other matters.”
World Vision’s education manager Geomel Jetonzo said they also partnered with Spanish foundations in partnering for digital education.
“Our digital education project in partnership with Spanish foundations Telefónica and La Caixa runs ProFuturo,” Jetonzo explained. “We want to help propagate the DepEd Commons online learning platform so our partner public school teachers are now undergoing self- paced online training on distant learning to help them develop digital learning content.”