MANKAYAN, Benguet – Mayor Materno R. Luspian expressed the local government’s sincerest gratitude to the dozens of child development workers, formerly day care center teachers, for their unrelenting and uncompromising services in laying the foundation of education of the youth in the municipality.
Luspian said that the love and passion of the child development workers in trying to solidify the foundation for education of the youth in exchange for a meagre honoraria from the local government is worthy of emulation by people who have the passion of teaching so that today’s youth will be ready to face the challenges of the future.
The local government was able to facilitate the establishment of some 58 child minding centers in the town’s 12 barangays over the past several years that significantly contributed in improving the access of the youth to quality education that will make them ready to confront the challenges of advancing in the age of information and communication technology advancement.
“We salute our child development workers for their supreme sacrifice in trying to prepare the youth for the challenges of the future. Their unwavering services to the people through the years cannot be replaced by whatever renumeration because the local government can only afford to provide them meagre honoraria,” Luspian stressed.
The 3-term municipal mayor said there is a need for concerned government agencies and local governments to look on ways on how to help the child development workers advance their welfare, especially in terms of providing them with adequate compensation to allow them to help in uplifting the living condition of their families.
Luspian has been going around the municipality extending messages of congratulations to the child development workers, parents and day care pupils for having hurdled the challenges of going to school and their willingness to face the greater challenges the children being elevated to kindergarten and eventually the current 12-year basic education.
He agreed to the age-old principle that education remains to be the best inheritance that parents and guardians could give their children because it cannot be easily taken away from them aside from the fact that educated people can use the same to help in advancing the living condition of their families when used appropriately.
On the other hand, Luspian urged the parents to continue supporting their children in their desired fields of expertise in the future because the investments that they were able to infuse for their children to be able to acquire a decent education will be plowed back to them once they will start earning for themselves and that they were able to land in gainful employment in the future.
For the children, Luspian rallied them to start working on their desired fields of expertise and try to achieve them by trying to hurdle the ladder of success step by step so that they will be able to achieve their dreams and aspirations through hardwork, dedicated studies and the verdant desire to be successful individuals in the future.
Luspian is about to complete is 5th term as a local chief executive and is now setting his sights on the province’s congressional post which will be vacated by incumbent Rep. Ronald M. Cosalan who will also be completing his 5th term as lawmaker.
By HENT
