Aboitiz Foundation opens school building

Sunstar Davao
By Butch D. Enerio
Thursday, October 9, 2014

WITH the help of the private sector, the backlog of classroom in the public schools in the country, particularly here has been decreased.

The Aboitiz Power Corp. with the Aboitiz Foundation, the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company (Cepalco), the local government here, and the Department of Education formally turned over on October 7 a one-story two-classroom school building to Kauswagan Elementary School in Barangay Kauswagan in this city.

The school building project is under “Aklat, Gabay, Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat at Pag-asa (Agapp),” a foundation of the sisters of President Benigno Aquino III to help children attend preschool.

The Aboitiz Foundation, under Agapp, since in 2011 has constructed more than 134 classrooms for its “Silid Pangarap” project benefiting over 14,000 children, teachers and school heads who underwent training.

The “Silid Pangarap” project is to promote home-school-community involvement that promotes partnerships among individual volunteers, organizations and networks who share the goals and visions of improving the quality of education by attending to early childhood care and other essential services, such as feeding program.

Mayor Oscar Moreno, who graced the turnover ceremony, underscored the importance of the private sector’s help in uplifting the educational standard of the public schools that through its corporate responsibility, the needs of the community, like classrooms, are provided.

Moreno said that his administration targets to construct 127 classrooms before the year-end to address the backlog of city’s public schools.

The Aboitiz foundation Inc., is the social development arm of the Aboitiz group of companies. It is in the forefront in finding and implementing more efficient and effective ways of giving.

For more than 25 years, the foundation has been successful on its program in areas of education, enterprise development, primary health and child care and corporate donations, notwithstanding its environmental concerns, particularly on climate change. source