LAOAG CITY, Dec. 18 -- A new reading center is now accessible and made more fun to learners, including out-of-school youth, at the Bangui Central Elementary School in the first district of Ilocos Norte.

In an interview on Thursday, Markelvin Guzman, monitoring supervisor-in-charge of the Bangui-Dumalneg District of the Department of Education in Ilocos Norte said the new reading center called "Kalapaw" (makeshift dwelling) was established within the school compound "to provide a safe, welcoming, and resource-rich space where learners who experience difficulty in reading can receive focused assistance."

The Bangui Central Elementary School is among the first to establish the project, which was formally inaugurated last Dec. 16.

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