CBE recognizes CitySavings for education support

The Coalition for Better Education (CBE) conferred the presidential award to the City Savings Bank (CitySavings) at Golden Prince Hotel and Suites, Cebu City during the group’s 16th founding anniversary recently.

CitySavings was recognized as a fellow education advocate that shared CBE’s vision of “Creating Empowered Learning Communities,” and it has been instrumental to the significant growth and development of CBE as a coalition through its long-term partnership.

Some of the notable initiatives of the bank with CBE were the establishment of the Center for Teacher Excellence (CefTex) and the implementation of Project TeACH (Teach, Aspire, Challenge, Help).

CefTex, which was established in 2001, is a joint project of CBE with CitySavings, Globe Telecom and Cebu Normal University. It is designed to provide a facility for teachers, both pre-service and in-service to acquire and demonstrate advance and relevant knowl- edge of education and teaching methodologies, teaching skills and techniques that will enhance and develop their capability and competency as teachers.

To date the facility has trained over 1,980 teachers where 270 of them completed the proficiency certification. CefTex also trained more than 800 principals, over 3,000 education college students for pre-service and 27 parents for teaching assistance.

Project TeACH, on the other hand, is a signature corporate social responsibility (CSR), in collaboration with CBE and the Department of Education.