In support to the national government’s commitment to achieve the United Nations’ goal of reducing adult illiteracy by 50% in 2015 and consequently improve the life of Filipinos, City Government of Cadiz has successfully implemented literacy programs and made it to the top three in the 2010 National Literacy Awards for Most Outstanding Local Government Units in component city category during the 2010 National Literacy Conference and Awards in Baguio City last September 8-11, 2010.
Hall of famer Tagum City in Davao Del Norte was the champion and received cash prize of P100,000 plus trophy and the second place went to Balanga City, Bataan Region III with P75,000.00 cash incentives. This year’s theme is “Community Development: A shared Responsibility to Society through Functional Literacy.”
Mayor Patrick Escalante together with Vice Mayor Samson Mirhan, DSWD Chief Elena Serenias, and City Schools Division Superintendent Dr. XZ Dignadice received the award worth P50,000.00 and a plaque during the awarding at the Teachers Camp in Baguio City.
The city’s winning points in the Outstanding Literacy Programs are the call center trainings where hundreds of youth and adults availed and enabled many of them to work in call centers, also encourage companies to set up their centers in the city. Rescue and Disaster risk reduction trainings and workshops in different barangays, a rescue center complete with facilities and staff (all volunteers) responds to emergencies and disasters even in the remote Barangay. Partnership with PNOC in transforming marginal lands into Jatropha plantations to produce biofuel including trainings of farmers on Jatropha planting, where 1,000 farmers from a cooperative have integrated the technology in the farmlands and consequently earned from sales of Jatropha seeds.
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