PH Consulate General in Jeddah Receives Textbooks from Rex Book Store

Phillippine Consul General to Jeddah Edgar B. Badajos (center) receives the textbooks for the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah’s Community Library from Rex Book Store through Manager of Rex Book Store Rowena S. Guatlo (third from right). With them are Vice-Consul Alfred Kristoffer Guiang (third from left), International Philippine School in Jeddah (IPSJ) Principal Miracle Tapado (rightmost), IPSJ Board of Trustees President Dr. Naura Macabanding (second from left), and St. Paul University-Manila Dr. Dennis Prince Germano (second from right). (Jeddah PCG photo)

JEDDAH 22 January 2020  –– The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah received textbooks from Rex Book Store which is one of the oldest educational book publishers and bookstore chains in the Philippines on 12 January 2020.

Rex Book Store representatives, together with officials of the International Philippine School in Jeddah (IPSJ), handed over the book donations to the Consulate during their call on Philippine Consul General to Jeddah Edgar B. Badajos. The donation is for the Consulate’s Community Library launched in October 2019 to promote love for reading through traditional media among the Filipino community in the Western Region of Saudi Arabia.

Consul General Badajos thanked Rex Book Store and IPSJ for supporting the learning initiatives of the Consulate and hoped for sustained collaboration between the government, the academe, and the private industry in promoting personal and professional development to the Filipino youth through learning.

Rex Book Store recently held faculty development sessions at the IPSJ to enhance capacities of Filipino teachers in providing quality education to Filipino students in the said institution, which holds the distinction of being the oldest and largest Philippine international school in the world. END

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