City still monitors students who got free laptops, tablets

THE CITY government continues to reach out to the beneficiaries of its "Student Siblings Tablet Sharing Project" to ensure the gadgets given to them have supported and motivated them to achieve academic performance.

Norman Baloro, DavaoLGU Special Projects program manager and Presidential Commission on the Urban Poor commissioner, said the distribution of tablets is not the end of their engagement with the students and parents.

“We inspire them through monitoring. Mas maganahan man sila na among ginabuhat every month naga tawag mi kung kumusta na ang tablet, kumusta na ang laptop, and we also ask about their grades (We inspire them through monitoring. They are more motivated because every month we call them and ask how is the tablet, how is the laptop and we also ask about their grades),” Baloro said, adding, this earned positive feedback from parents who did not expect they are being reached out even after the distribution of the gadgets.

Since the start of the program in October 2020, the city had nine distributions of laptops and tablets donated by various donors and this benefitted a total of 2,932 students. The last distribution was 500 pieces of tablets from Cosmic Technologies Inc. or Cherry Mobile Philippines on May 2, 2022, at the People’s Park.

“Ang pagiging grateful sa mga parents and beneficiaries themselves is already an inspiration sa amoa nga mangita pajud mi og pamaagi og