Donate-A-Book Project for Rural schools.(Opinion &Amp; Editorial)

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Byline: Cerge M. Remonde

A DONATE-A-Book project was launched recently at the SM Megamall by the SM Foundation, IBC Channel 13, Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), and the Department of Education (DepEd).

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The objective of the project is to raise as many books as possible for distribution to schools in the rural areas where books and other educational materials are a very rare commodity.

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Now on its fifth year, the Donate-A-Book project has already collected a total of 1,620,000 books and distributed them to 4,378 public elementary and high school libraries, municipal and barangay libraries and daycare centers in remote places all …