CEBU CITY, March 15 -- About 5,000 grade-schoolers in this capital city are now enjoying a specialized tutoring session with college students tapped to teach struggling and non-reading learners, a regional social welfare official said Thursday.

Shalaine Marie Lucero, regional director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)-Central Visayas, said 584 college students from the Cebu Normal University (CNU), a premier teaching institution in the Visayas, will assist 4,865 learners from 67 public elementary schools here.

Under the Tara, BASA! Tutoring Program of the national government, Lucero said 487 college students of CNU have been tapped to serve as tutors and youth development workers (YDWs) while 97 of them are now ...