Teaching resiliency to disasters is what floods and super typhoons has imprinted in our minds today. After all experience is the best teacher.
Thus, Davao Light and Power Co., an AboitizPower subsidiary, embraces the Department of Education’s (DepEd) “Making our schools safer”, the theme for this year’s Brigada Eskwela.
Last May 24, 2014 around 300 employees of the local distribution utility participated in the annual Brigada Eskwela activity as part of its corporate social responsibility program. The activity was held in two public schools namely the Crossing Bayabas National High School (Crossing Bayabas NHS) and Sindaton National High School (Sindaton NHS) in Toril District and Panabo City, respectively.
Apart from the cleaning and painting classrooms, disaster preparedness was the main focus of this worthy endeavor.
“This year’s Brigada Eskwela is much more different than the previous years because we don’t only refurbish the classrooms for beautification purposes but also to prepare them when disasters strike. It’s just sad to note that it has to take one super Yolanda for us to realize the importance of disaster preparedness especially in schools which are utilized as evacuation centers during a natural disaster.” said Fermin Edillon, Community Relations Manager.
The most common natural hazards both in Davao and in Panabo is flooding. Mostly affected are the schools which result to suspension of classes in most affected areas. Hence, it is important to give full attention in making schools a safer place to be.
The schools’ principals, Evelyn Magno of Crossing Bayabas NHS and Gabriel Alfonso of Sindaton NHS were also present to grace the event.
“We are happy that our school has been chosen to be one of the recipients of Davao Light’s Brigada Eskwela activity. We will make sure that we will maintain the refurbished classrooms in good shape.” said Principal Magno.
“Our heartfelt thanks to the Management and Staff of Davao Light for their full support during the Brigada Eskwela 2014 at Sindaton NHS. I’m sure that our students will be excited to come to school this June with the improvement that the employees have done in their classrooms.” added Principal Alfonso.
Brigada Eskwela or the National Schools Maintenance Week is an annual nationwide voluntary effort of the community participated in by various organizations. This is to help all public schools in the country in refurbishing and cleaning classrooms for the upcoming school opening.
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