TRMH holds Brigada Eskwela 2016

By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO
The Royal Mandaya Hotel embarked on another Brigada Eskwela outreach program on June 11 at the Namnam Elementary School located in remote Marahan in Marilog District.
The TRMH team, composed of volunteer hotel personnel, held the annual school outreach program dubbed as “Bayanihan Para sa Paaralan” as part of the regular community-based programs of the Emilio Escandor Community Outreach Program (EECOP).
Among the activities made by the TRMH team led by General Manager Benjamen Banzon included the painting of the Elementary School Building and its newly constructed stage, feeding of the community, distribution of school supplies, distribution of clothing and slippers, and extending free haircut to the students who are mostly natives of the Matigsalug Tribes.
With its remote location and accessibility problems, Namnam Elementary School is seldom visited as it lies 81 kilometers away from the center of Davao City. The school was presented with gallons of paints, paint brushes and rollers, brooms and dustpans, scythes, and manual grass cutting scissor by the participating Escandor Group of Companies.
The school has around 230 students from Kinder to Grade 6 levels.
With its slogans with its “Business With a Heart” and “Transformation Through Action”, the Escandor Group of Companies ensured that the less fortunate, seldom visited and assisted, far flung communities will be reached-out by the Emilio Escandor Community Outreach Program.
The volunteers, citing the famous quote of F.G.Burnett, collectively sang “with our hands born open, and so is our heart; and though there may be times when our hands are empty, our heart is always full, and we can give things out of that…warm things, kind things, sweet things…help and comfort and laughter…and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.”
“It’s another fulfilling activity to have extended help to the community here in Marahan, we will not cease to come here and help because they really needed help and we are just so happy doing that in the name of the late Col. Emilio Escandor,” said Banzon. (NJB)