By Leilanie G. Adriano (Staff Reporter)
LAOAG CITY—As various schools in this city gear up for distance
learning under the new normal, some riders here have signified their intent to
distribute learner’s modules for free.
In a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed between the Department
of Education Laoag City and the Motorcycle Philippines Federation 128, Inc.,
both parties agreed that the modules, which teachers developed, the riders will
distribute and retrieve for free to the city’s barangay village, including
other municipalities if applicable.
Dubbed as project “Volunteer Riders Organized for Optable Module”
(VROOM) Delivery, Gary D. Ronquillo, the motorists’ federation provincial
coordinator said in an interview that as partners for education in the “new
normal”, they are offering their services for the welfare of children in Laoag
and Ilocos Norte.
“Over the years, we [riders] had been used to public service.
This is the least we can do for our children during this time of crisis,” Mr. Ronquillo
said.
With at least 30 active members who already signified their
interest to help in the distribution of modules, Mr. Ronquillo said they will
start with the big schools in the city as they hope to encourage more riders to
support this cause.
To formalize the agreement, Laoag’s Schools Division Superintendent
Vilma Eda and Mr. Ronquillo, representing the Motorcycle Philippines Federation,
signed the MOA on August 14, 2020 at the Ilocos Norte College of Arts and
Trades.
Aside from the volunteer riders, barangay officials from the 80
barangays here also expressed their support in the delivery of modules for
learners who opted for modular learning modality.
Based on the latest learner's survey, majority of the more or
less 22,000 enrolled learners in Laoag public schools prefer modular learning
and the local DepEd this will carry this out during the opening of classes on
October 5, 2020.
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