“Hangad
ko po lamang sa inyo, Maging bantayog ang gusaling puti at pulahan, Sa Mga
lugar na lubos na nangangailangan… Salamat, buong puso naming sinasambit…Hinding-hindi
ko malilimutan PLDT ay nariyan.”
These are some of the lines of the poem delivered
beautifully by visually-impaired Grade 3 student Danica Mae Arias for the
guests during the turnover of 2 classrooms for the Special Education (SPED)
pupils of Banquerohan Elementary School in Legazpi City.
This is a special classrooms project for PLDT since
these will be benefiting at least 70 SPED pupils and teachers who, for the past
years, have been utilizing the school’s makeshift structures for their everyday
classes.
The turnover was attended by PLDT’s Community Relations
Head Ms Evelyn del Rosario, Legazpi City Vice Mayor Vitto Roces, Department of
Education – Legazpi City Schools Division Superintendent Dr Cecille Rivera,
Motolite’s CSR Officer Ms Connie Deligero and PBSP Luzon Regional Center
Manager Kristine Rivadelo.
A day earlier last February 11, another classroom was turned over to
Colegio de Sta Rita in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur. This is the 2nd
classroom donated by PLDT to help support the completion of its two-storey
24-classroom building.
Run by the Franciscan Apostolic Sisters led by its
school directress, Sr. Irene Anapi, the school caters to students from average
to poor households of the different barangays of Del Gallego. PLDT’s support to
the school is its response to improve accessibility to quality education
through supporting private institutions to absorb pupils and students that
could have been additional children for the public school system.
As of February 2016, PLDT has turned over 23 new
classrooms that were made possible by its donation to the Motolite-PBSP Balik
Baterya Program. PLDT remains the biggest donor of the Program with almost 2
million tons of used lead-acid batteries amounting to PhP 45 M. PLDT’s Balik
Baterya projects range from classrooms donation to reading corners and computer
laboratories to urban road and drainage projects to reforestation projects in
the Marikina Watershed.
