| .5M desks eyed for public school pupils Seven years before her death, Corazon Aquino started to build yet another legacy in the spirit of people power. As Filipino students faced another year of learning under a tree instead of a classroom, on the floor instead of seated on a chair, the former President gathered business leaders to find a solution. The response was a project that brought close to 24,000 school desks to s [ ... ] |
| PBSP, UnionBank open collection portal for .5M school chairs THE Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), in partnership with UnionBank, has launched an online donations portal that will collect funding for 500,000 school chairs to be distributed to 2,500 public schools under the Cory Aquino School Desk Project. Rafael C. Lopa, executive director of PBSP, said the new portal, igivebacknow.pbsp.org.ph, mainly targets Filipinos both here and [ ... ] |
| School buildings for remote villages IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines – At least two far-flung rural elementary schools in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay, each received during recent separate turn-over ceremonies, a three-room school building donated by the Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desorollo (AECID) through the Fundacion Humanismo y Democracia (FHD). Department of Education (DepEd) Provincial [ ... ] |