DAVAO CITY—A Davao del Norte city has gifted three public elementary and secondary schools with new classroom buildings, along with desktop computer sets, for a speech laboratory and learning center.
A bigger 2-story building was inaugurated on October 25 at the Cagangohan National High School. The building has six classrooms built with a budget of P4.3 million from the Local School Board. It was turned over to school head Chonalyn C. Doctora, who said that it was a relief “because we added four sections with 45 [learners] in one room.”
The Sta. Cruz Elementary School also got 1-story school building from the city government. It has two classrooms built with a budget of P3 million also from the LSB.
The Southern Davao Elementary School got the last of three donations of school buildings, with a 1-story building with two classrooms and a rest room. Also budgeted by the LSB, the building costs P3 million.
City Mayor Jose E. Relampagos said the building construction for public schools was part of his 10-Point Executive Agenda on Educational Support.
Aside from the school buildings, the city also handed out 15 desktop computers to the Panabo City Senior High School (PCSHS) in Barangay New Visayas on October 25, to fill the recently constructed Speech Laboratory and E-Learning Center of the school.
At Narciso B. Galapin Elementary School, 72 Grade 6 pupils received their school supplies from businessman Edward K. Tom, a former student of the school.
Lovely Karen C. Melencion, who represented School Principal Irhyn E. Petalcorin, said the businessman has been a donor for 11 years now to Grade 6 pupils since 2012.
“We are thankful for his continuing support,” she said.
Mr. Tom also shouldered part of the students’ financial obligations and only asked students “to be serious in their studies.”
Meanwhile, the city government received a Plaque of Recognition during the third Meritorious Exceptional Performance of Stakeholders and Teachers’ Awards and Recognition 2022 (MEP STAR Awards).
It has held on October 25 at the Panabo City Senior High School in Barangay New Visayas.
School Principal Myrna E. Purificacion said the award recognized the valuable support of the city government to the affairs of public schools.