Background. Accenture volunteered to shoulder the quarterly infusion of new titles for one full year, starting November 2006. In practice, Bing would still be the one to purchase the titles but the donations would be in Accenture’s name. Accenture’s Nescel Asuncion turned over Accenture’s first donation of new titles—worth over P20,000—last November 6, with the school principal Thelma Co and librarian Grace Pelagio in attendance. 150 new books, eight audio CDs, 10 VCDs, and 13 DVDs were turned over in total.

Major Book Donation. Last August 2, 2007, Bing del Rosario made another significant book donation on behalf of Accenture. The donation was valued at P12,095, and P2,000 of this was for educational games – Scribbage, Rubix cubes, checkers, Chinese checkers, and puzzles. Receiving the donation was Principal Thelma Co.

In the simple donation ceremony, Principal Thelma noted that Begumbayan Elementary School had jumped from 93rd to 15th in the Quezon City achievement tests conducted last March 2007. She gave credit to the library and the increase in reading literacy levels for the huge jump in the ranking.