LGUs benefit from Tagum's ‘Care for School Chairs Program’

TAGUM CITY April 23- With most schools in the country today  on an official hiatus, school children and teachers go on summer break, leaving the halls and corridors of schools silent and empty. But for the team of Tagum City Mayor Rey T. Uy, this is just a perfect time to boost his “Care for School Chairs” Program distributing to far-flung schools in Davao Region “new tools of hope” long before classes officially open in June.

Last April 17, his team went to the Municipality of New Corella where chairs are indeed badly needed. Dark classrooms now come alive in El Salvador Elementary School and Patrocenio Elementary School with their 60 pieces of yellow armchairs, respectively.

Sta. Fe Elementary School received 90 armchairs while 50 pieces of the same were also given to its annex high school.In Municipality of Maco, Province of Compostela Valley, two schools benefited in the distribution of chairs last April 18.

Concepcion Elementary School received 130 armchairs and 50 kiddie chairs, 25 of which will be given to the Barangay Day Center. Dumlan Elementary School also received 130 pieces of armchairs, 30 kiddie chairs for the school’s kindergarten class and 10 for the barangay day care center.

Requests from school’s authorities come at a little expense, with Mayor Uy only a text away. It usually takes two to three weeks for the chairs fabricated from confiscated logs to be delivered personally by the local chief executive.

To date, a total of 36,512 school furniture (armchairs, desks, kiddie chairs, teacher tables, computer and working table), were already distributed by LGU Tagum to different schools as part of Tagum’s ‘Social Responsibility’ to its neighboring Cities and Municipalities in Davao Region since August 2011. (Louie Lapat of CIO Tagum)