COMPUTERS FOR STUDENTS. Twenty-five schools in Iloilo receive Personal Computer for Public Schools from the Japanese government. Photo shows some of the personal computers turned over to recipient schools. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Maurice S. Tugaff)
ILOILO CITY -- All 25 barangay high school recipients of the Personal Computer for Public Schools 5 (PCPS 5) have already received their computer packages, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Iloilo has said.
“The 25 schools were able to receive 10 sets of computer packages funded by the government of Japan through DTI,” trade and industry development specialist Kurt Maurice S. Tugaff, who is the focal person for the project of DTI-Iloilo, said in an interview Thursday.
The PCPS project, funded through the Japan International Cooperation Agency under the Non-Project Grant Aid Counter-Value Fund, gave each school 10 computer sets. Each set contained a central processing unit, a monitor, keyboard, mouse, an Uninterruptible Power Supply, and a wireless printer.
The project, in its fifth phase, aims to enhance the Information Technology skills of the youth, as well as to address computer backlogs in schools.
The recipient schools were chosen by the Department of Education (DepEd) and endorsed to the DTI, the proponent agency and in-charge of the procurement and distribution of computer packages.
“The distribution was done first and the second week of April while the inspection and audit were done by the DTI last week of May,” he said.
The PCPS project also covers the establishment of computer laboratories in public high schools, teacher training, and implementation of a computer education curriculum in the recipient schools.
The recipient schools were from Tigbauan, Miagao, Calinog, Carle, San Joaquin, Oton, Badiangan, Lambunao, Batad, Concepcion, Barotac Nuevo, Ajuy, Sara, Alimodian, Maasin, Bingawan, Banate, and Leganes.
Meanwhile, DTI 6 (Western Visayas) Assistant Director Ermelinda P. Pollentes said the people in the community can also use the computers during weekends.
“That is only for students during weekdays but it does not deter the recipient schools (from) also offering them as an alternative learning system for the unemployed and even the out-of-school-youth during the weekends,” Pollentes said in a press conference on Wednesday. (PNA)
