Adarna Group Foundation is committed to creating communities of readers in the Philippines.

It aims to develop the literacy skills and the love for books of Filipino children, starting from the prenatal period until preschool age. These programs can be integrated into the existing practices, resources, and systems of local government units, with the mission to capacitate learning partners with various community and home interventions on early learning and early reading.

Ikalawang Isang Libong Araw

In support of RA 12199 or the “Early Childhood Care and Development System Act,” Ikalawang Isang Libong Araw equips parents and child development workers with the information, materials, and skills necessary to enhance the reading readiness skills of three- to four-year-old children.

In partnership with LBC Hari ng Padala Foundation, the Magsimulang Magbasa Program reached 65 child development centers for its first year of implementation.

There are two main implementing arm for this program: child development workers and parents. Both are given learning and reading interventions to teach reading readiness skills at school and cultivate the culture of reading at home.

The main goal is to prepare three- to four-year-old child development center students for reading. The program includes the provision of training manual and Adarna House Big Books for each child development worker, and training manual, and Adarna House Picture Books for each parent.