The Literacy Training Service (LTS) is one of three components of the

National Service Training Program The National Service Training Program (NSTP) is a civic education and defense preparedness program for students instituted by the government of the Philippines on November 13, 2009, by virtue of Republic Act No. 9163, otherwise known as the "Nati ...

(NSTP), a civic education and defense preparedness program for higher and

vocational education Vocational education is education that prepares people for a skilled craft. Vocational education can also be seen as that type of education given to an individual to prepare that individual to be gainfully employed or self employed with req ...

students in the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. The LTS is "a program designed to train students to become teachers of

literacy Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...

and

numeracy Numeracy is the ability to understand, reason with, and apply simple numerical concepts; it is the numerical counterpart of literacy. The charity National Numeracy states: "Numeracy means understanding how mathematics is used in the real world ...

skills to school children, out of school youth, and other segments of society". Graduates of the LTS become members of the National Service Reserve Corps, which may be tapped by the state for the delivery of

, civic

welfare Welfare may refer to: Philosophy *Well-being (happiness, prosperity, or flourishing) of a person or group * Utility in utilitarianism * Value in value theory Economics * Utility, a general term for individual well-being in economics and decision ...

and

disaster risk reduction Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters less damaging when they do occur. DRR aims to make communities stronger and better prepared ...

programs and activities.

References

{{Reflist Education in the Philippines

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