1M Books Donates to Manila City Hall
July 19, 2021 - Manila City Hall
Coinciding with National Children’s Book Day*, CANVAS’ One Million Books Campaign donated 2,000 copies of #YOUTHink: Fight Fake News and 1,000 copies each of Safe Space: A Kid’s Guide to Data Privacy in both English and Filipino to the City of Manila. The books will be given away to communities of children in Manila that lack access to books and educational materials. A set of hard bound CANVAS storybooks, mostly winning stories from the Romeo Forbes Children’s Story Writing Competition, were also donated to Manila’s Libraries.
While the COVID-19 pandemic had delayed this activity multiple times — because of multiple lockdowns this year — we are happy to have finally turned over these children’s books.
The donations were received by Manila Mayor Isko Moreno, Vice-Mayor Honey Lacuna, and representatives of the City Hall.
*National Children’s Book day is celebrated every third Tuesday of July.
