Our program to help improve basic literacy and numeracy skills for the digital readiness of future digital users. Digital inclusion requires a certain level of literacy and numeracy, and being able to read, write, and count are foundational in the transition to digital literacy.

 

In collaboration with the CIIT Library, we ran a book drive at CIIT from August to October 2024, and we collected almost 2,000 books and other learning materials. We shall send these to two recipients in Mindanao before the next school year begins - the Yellow School of Hope, an elementary school for the Samal Bajaus in Maluso, Basilan, and to a mountaineering group who will be our partner in Project CLIMB (Create Learning in Mountain Barangays). The group, who has been mountaineering to help promote tourism in Mindanao, led by friends Tadz and Tina, will climb to Barangay Pagonayan in Amai, Manabilang, Lanao Del Sur in the summer, to distribute books to former students of a public school that had closed because of a local conflict. Give to Create Library here.