Around 862 brand new tablets will be distributed to poor and deserving students next week courtesy of the Energy Development Corporation (EDC), the country’s largest wind power farm in Burgos, Ilocos Norte.
Worth PHP7.5 million, the learning gadgets hope to inspire more students in the province to make good in their studies under the new normal education experience, said Andy Durog, facility head of the EDC Burgos Wind Power Corporation.
According to Durog, the amount used to purchase the tablets is part of their company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program and in response to the governor’s call for more tablet donations to aid learners who have been engaged in distance education for more than a year now.
“This is the first time that we are donating tablets for learners of Ilocos Norte,” said Durog in an interview Friday, adding the lack of learning gadgets continues to be a major concern of learners in the province as most of them are into the modular learning program.
Dr. Dany Daquioag, the education consultant of Ilocos Norte, said the distribution will coincide with the continuing gadget distribution of the provincial government-funded under the Special Education Fund
The provincial government has been distributing high-speed printers, computers, and tablets to aid in the current distance learning program of the Department of Education. (PNA)
