ILOILO City – For first time, this city is being considered for the National Literacy Award (NLA) of the Department of Education (DepEd) for local government units (LGU,) highly-urbanized city subcategory.
“We are one of the five finalists,” said Mayor Jose Espinosa III.
The NLA appraises local government projects in education, including alternative learning system.
Among the city’s major literacy and education program initiatives are the following:
* alternative learning system
* vocational-technical training through the Technical Institute of Iloilo City (TIIC)
* Iloilo City Community College that provides affordable and quality education to indigent students
* KAhublagan sa BArangay para sa LApnagon nga KAhandaan (KABALAKA) – an information and dissemination campaign on disaster risk reduction management (DRRM)
Espinosa said the city is vying for three more national awards and validators are expected in this metropolis this August and September.
The Iloilo River initiative is a finalist to the Galing Pook Awards 2018. City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) head Engr. Noel Hechanova said the cleanup initiatives at the Iloilo River stirred over P2 billion worth of projects.
Espinosa said Iloilo City was also “short-listed as one of the potential passers” of the 2018 Seal of Good Local Governance Award (SGLG) of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
The validation for the NLA was on Aug. 7; yesterday (Aug. 8) for the SGLG; and Aug. 13-14 for the Galing Pook Award.
The city is also being considered for the award called “Most Child-Friendly City” (for highly urbanized cities). The validation is from Sept. 23 to 24. (PNA)
