DILG joins ‘One Million Lapis’ campaign
TO help uphold children’s rights to education, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is collecting new and old pencils for the ‘One Million Lapis’ project of the Council for Welfare of Children (CWC) in celebration of the National Children’s Month in November.
“Lapis” is a symbolic representation of the child’s needs to express one’s ideas and feelings.
DILG City Director Rhoderick M. Dawis said the project aims to collect a million pencils for the underprivileged pupils in the country who lack the opportunity to pursue schooling and necessary materials for writing.
A documentary report in 2012 revealed that in far-flung villages, pupils divide one pencil into three to be able to write and learn.
The campaign is also being envisioned to enter the Guinness World Record this year for the longest line of pencils.
To support to the project, a drop box for donation of new and old pencils will be installed in all DILG offices. The final count and official declaration of the number of ‘lapis’ collected will be on November 5 during a kick-off activity of the 2016 National Children’s Month celebration. (Joseph Bacani_CIO)
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