LGU Tagum gives free school kits ahead of classes kick-off

TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, June 1, 2015 - Three days before the formal opening of classes, the City Government of Tagum rolled out its scholarships and educational assistance programs to poor but deserving students following its mandate of prioritizing education under its ten-point development thrust dubbed as EAGLE WINGS Program.

A total of twelve thousand seven hundred fifty (12,750) sets of school packs, consisting of notebooks, papers and pens, were distributed by the City Government of Tagum to the scholars of the local government and children belonging to the indigenous peoples and Muslim communities of Tagum.

Walk-in recipients are also given the same sets of school packs, which were funded through the Local Government’s General and Special Education Funds, respectively.

According to Mayor Allan L. Rellon, the “Oplan Tabang Eskwela” of the local government aims to ease the burden of parents in purchasing much-needed school supplies of their children.

On May 29, 2015, no less than the local chief executive received in his office thousands of school children and their parents who flocked to the City Hall to receive school supplies.

Mayor Rellon also shared that they will also be roving schools on the first week of the new school year to distribute free school supplies.

Meanwhile, more than a thousand scholars under the “Sulong Dunong Educational Assistance Program” were also briefed by the local government on May 28, 2015 at the Rotary Park Gymnasium.

The Sulong Dunong covers payment of the individual student’s school and PTA fees and other miscellaneous expenses.

As pet projects of Mayor Rellon, the Oplan Tabang Eskwela and the Sulong Dunong programs was pioneered way back in 2004 by then Vice Mayor Rellon using his annual SRN-MBA funds, or the Social Reform Agenda-Minimum Basic Needs. (Louie Lapat/City Information Office – Tagum)