HIPORLOS,
Eastern Samar, June 20 (PNA) -- A school official in this town thanked private
donors for building new classrooms at their campus.
Giporlos
National Trade School (GNTS) principal Benjamin Campomanes said the school
building will benefit 282 senior high school (SHS) students.
The Consuelo
Foundation and BDO Foundation donated the facility to GNTS for use of learners
in this new academic year.
“This is
very big help not only to the students, but also to the community because they
are the recipients of this school building as well,” said Campomanes.
More than 90
percent of the school buildings in GNTS was destroyed by super typhoon Yolanda
on November 8, 2013.
Despite
completion of new buildings, Campomanes said that they still need eight more
classrooms for their special courses.
Courses
offered by GNTS for senior high school program are general academics, home
economics, automotive, carpentry and masonry.
The Giporlos
school also expects new classrooms funded by the Department of Education.
“We are
hoping that more donations will come to address classroom needs,” he added.
Lawyer
Carmela Andal-Castro, managing director of Consuelo Foundation, recalled that
before they implemented the project, they went around the Yolanda-hit areas to
check the basic education needs of typhoon victims.
“We feel how
grateful people are for our help, not only from the students but even from
teachers. You can see the excitement in them, not only because of the new
building, but also because of the new courses offered that will give them
opportunity to secure a decent job,” Castro said.
The
foundation has existing projects in Giporlos, Hernani and Guiuan in Eastern
Samar.
In the early
part of rehabilitation, Consuelo Foundation also provided assistance to
typhoon-affected residents in the cities of Ormoc and Tacloban; towns of Palo
and Tanauan, Leyte; Marabut, Samar; and Quinapundan, Eastern Samar.
Castro added
that aside from building structures, they are also into implementing programs
that would help families and communities stand in their feet when they leave
their project sites.
LAP/SQM/ROEL T. AMAZONA/EGR
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