THE Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro Centerpoint held January 8 a trainors’ training for parents of students in Cosina Integrated School and barangay officials in the said place.
Rotary International District 3870 assistant governor Dr. Mercelita Jandayan-Labial said the training is meant for parents of students who are still in frustration level of reading.
Under global academic standard which is also adopted by DepEd, frustration level is defined as more than one in ten words are too difficult for the reader.
Located 15 kilometers away from Talakag town proper in Bukidnon, Cosina Integrated School is the site of a digital reading outreach of RC Centerpoint since June 2025.
The supplemental reading program uses an online-based tool called Reading A to Z, an award-winning literacy solution that empowers teachers to strengthen students’ foundational reading and comprehension skills using a digital library of texts and instructional materials.
To access the materials, RC Centerpoint went on a painstakingly tedious process of licensing and paying for it.
The materials are not cheap.
But RC Centerpoint was able to acquire a global grant from The Rotary Foundation under their proposal Alleviating Learning Poverty Through A Comprehensive Digital Literacy Program.
The grant – amounting to an equivalent of P1.5 million – was among the only five approved for RI District 3870 last year via funders RI Districts 3590, 3502 and 3610; RC Yeosu Hanryeo and RC Sacheon-Gukhwa.
The rest of the amount was used to buy television sets, six laminating machines, laminating film and to connect the school’s teachers to the Internet through Starlink and WiFi sa Bukid.
Labial, an educator by profession and also past president of RC Centerpoint, explained that the downloaded materials will be laminated for the next generation of students to utilize.
She is happy that from a population of 114 frustrating level of students last June, the number has shrunk to only 77 in the latest monitoring.
RC Centerpoint is ambitiously aiming for a zero frustrating level by the end of the existing academic year in April.
To help achieve this, the club is actively tapping parents and barangay officials to assist the kids at home and monitor their developments.
Labial and her colleagues at RC Centerpoint taught the parents last January 8 on how to spot reading miscues, among others.
RC Centerpoint currently has 31 active members. It was chartered in 2002.
