Davao Light and Power Co. turned over last Wednesday, February 2, 150 new wooden armchairs to Talandang Elementary School in Tugbok District.
The chairs will give 150 primary and elementary students of the beneficiary school’s over 400 population the opportunity to be seated individually. At present some of the classes are using two-seater school desks made of plastic most of which are already dilapidated
The donation is the first to be made by the electric utility in 2011. However, 300 more armchairs are about ready for turning over to two more beneficiary schools in Davao City and in Braulio Dujali in Davao del Norte.
The project is part of Davao Light’s continuing support to the education department’s “Adopt-a-School” program. Each armchair costs about P800 to assemble and apply finishing work.
Davao Light community relations manager Vic N. Sumalinog told Ms. Wilma G. Acog, principal of Talandang Elementary School, that the chairs are meant to make classrooms more conducive to learning, thereby improving the quality of students who will eventually graduate from the school.
Sumalinog also told Ms. Acog that quality education is a primary goal the company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, believing that education prepares today’s youth to become tomorrow’s leaders of the country.
Ms. Acog committed to take care of the new chairs, adding that she would find a way that will ensure that the chairs will not be vandalized by those who use them.
