BAGUIO CITY –The City Schools Division Office here received on Tuesday San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) donation for distribution to the different schools.
Atty. Micaela Rosales, special projects manager of SMC turned over of 140 chairs, five teachers’ tables, and 242 gallons of paint at the Department of Education Division Office in Baguio City as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility.
Rosales said the items came from the closed nursing school in Pampanga that the company recently acquired and are distributing the contents for use in public schools.
Atty. Micaela Rosales, during the turn-over said ““we though what we brought is just for one school and it will not be enough for the 67 schools so we are giving our consent for the schools division to get whatever can still be used by our learners in the school we acquired.”
SMC this year acquired a school property in Bulacan which used to be a nursing school but stopped operation at the height of the pandemic and was sold to the company.
Rosales said that the chairs they brought and donated came from the school but there are still a lot that can still be used like sound systems, television sets, tables, and others.
“Please visit the place, look for items that are still useful for the children so that they are not wasted and just destroyed being there,” Rosales announced during a message as part of the turn-over.
She also said that they will add some more cash for the paints they turned over which they learned is not sufficient for the 67 schools.
“Since it was a nursing school, there are equipment, apparatus that are still useful, kasi nursing yan, baka may microscope na pwede pa (because that is a nursing [school], they might have microscopes that can still be used), board, which can still be used in schools and other useful materials na pwede natin ma-kuha (that we can get),” said Dr. Soraya Faculo, acting Schools Division Superintendent of Baguio on the sidelines of the turn-over.
“Ang mga upuan na ibinigay nila magagandang klase at malalapad, comfortable na upuan ng mga bata saka may lagayan ng gamit sa ilalalim kaya magiging comfortable ang mga batang gagamit (the chairs they gave are of good quality and they are big, comfortable for children to sit-on plus an area under the chair where the learners can place their belongings),” Faculo added.
She said that they have also earlier partnered with SMC for the “Tamang Asal sa Kalsada” values formation program training of teachers in Baguio.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong that in 2022, SMC also donated 200 chairs to the Baguio school’s division.
San Miguel Corporation also recently turned over a school building in Calatagan, Batangas which was completed as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility of the company.
