Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Eastern Samar school official thanks donors for new building

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.

“We want to leave legacy not only in infrastructure but also opportunity that will change them in terms of preparing them in times of disaster and in terms of caring for their children and family,” Castro added. (PNA)
LAP/SQM/ROEL T. AMAZONA/EGR

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