The Department of Education (DepEd)’s National Schools Maintenance Week, also known as Brigada Eskwela Week, kicks off todaw with several government agencies and private corporations expected to help public schools prepare for the opening classes next month.
Brigada Eskwela enjoins the community to help in repairing and cleaning public schools nationwide.
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) kicked off on Saturday its “Brigada Eskwela” program for this year in one of its assisted schools — the Maliksi Elementary School in Bacoor, Cavite.
Since education is one of the clusters in PBSP’s Platforms for Collective Engagements (PlaCEs), the organization promotes the “Bayanihan” spirit among its member business firms. More than 100 employee-volunteers of PBSP’s member companies dedicate their weekend to the cleaning and repairing of classrooms.
The spirit of voluntarism and bayanihan are very much alive in this year’s National Schools Maintenance Week, widely known as Brigada Eskwela.
All over the country, students, teachers, parents, and volunteers are all geared up to prepare and repair classrooms and other facilities in public schools for the opening of classes on June 4.
In sync with this national activity, the corporate-led Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) has started to mobilized its member companies ranging from small to large businesses to take heed of the call to support Brigada Eskwela ‘12.
MANILA— This year’s recognition event of Motolite-Ramcar in partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) is slated to merge with a school chairs donation project in honor of former President and global democracy icon Corazon C. Aquino.
The 2012 Motolite-PBSP recognition event in partnership with the Cory Aquino School Desks Project is expected to be held on April 11 in Summit Ridge, Tagaytay City.
Under its Learning Enhancement Assistance Package (LEAP) project, the Motolite-PBSP Balik Baterya Program has involved the collection of used lead-acid batteries (ULABs) for proper recycling and the production of new automotive and industrial batteries.
Since its launching in 2006, the program generated funds that have helped improve basic education courtesy of donors supporting Project LEAP, which includes the provision of text/workbooks, training of teachers, remedial reading camps, and supplemental feeding.
Filipino-American entertainer apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas takes time out from his commercial engagements tomorrow, February 24, to attend the groundbreaking ceremonies for a two-storey building to house four new classrooms in Balulang Elementary School in Barangay Balulang, Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City. Balulang Elementary School, which has 1,450 students, is one of many…
E=MC2 , (Education My Charitable Contribution); a campaign that raise funds for school children in conflict-affected and depressed areas of Mindanao, has been helping indigent children at Malangit Elementary School in Buluan, Maguindanao. Eighty-five school children have been provided with assorted school supplies to include school uniforms and shoes as part of the assistance package….
ELRO Commercial and Industrial Corporation donated 1M pesos worth of slippers to the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) that benefited underprivileged children in Mindanao. The donation was distributed by Philippine Business for Social Progress – Mindanao Regional Operations (PBSP – MRO) schools in the Island Municipality of Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan. A total of 1,600…
BOOKS are like lighthouses built in the vast sea of opportunities. These gifts are valuable contribution as we seek knowledge said April Joy Calanza Grade 6 student of Teresita Elementary School one of the beneficiaries of Nestle s corporate citizenship efforts in South Cotabato.
Calanza spoke in behalf of the students during the recent book turnover by Nestle in its Nestle Truckers Reading Camp Project in partnership with the Department of Education DepEd Motolite and the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) through the BalikBaterya Program.
The Department of Education (DepEd) and the provincial government of Bohol are jointly spending P25.4 million for the construction of new public school classrooms in the province. Under an agreement signed by Education Secretary Armin Luistro and Bohol Governor Edgar Chatto, the partnership, which calls for a 50-50 sharing of costs, will start with the…
MANILA, Philippines – The Gearing Up Internet Literacy and Access for Students (GILAS) program will be turned over tomorrow by the private sector to the Department of Education (DepEd) with a milestone of connecting 3,306 public high schools around the country. Representatives from the 24 member organizations of the GILAS consortium, led by steering committee…
LIPA CITY — Epson Precision Philippines has completed its precise target of 10 elementary schools in Batangas province as beneficiaries of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) project called Contribution to the Advancement and Restoration of Environment and Society (CARES), where each student received a set of school supplies and their respective schools got a treasure…
COTABATO CITY — The Aboitiz group of companies through the Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (AFI) is set to build at least 45 Silid Pangarap schoolhouses all over the country, with the first one recently constructed for the Cotabato City Central Pilot School (CCCPS), in partnership with the Cotabato Light and Power Co. and the Aklat, Gabay,…
Jannie Corpus-Sampani, 12, was among the first one to arrive at the Paraiso Verde where a gathering of teachers, local officials and stakeholders of education will be held. The 45-minute jeep ride from Sto. Niño Elementary School where she is presently in Grade VI, did not dampen her eagerness to join in the daylong round table dialogue (RTD).
This will be her first time to speak before a big crowd, not of children, but of teachers, parents, local officials, dignitaries from USAID, the International Youth Foundation (IYF), Education Development Center (EDC) and other representatives from member-organizations of the Education & Livelihood Skills Alliance or ELSA.
MANILA— Malnutrition among children is an alarming health problem which poses an opportunity for private and non-profit organizations to provide immediate help and keep that help in the ring sustainable.
This is why the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), and ICTSI Foundation held a partnership to launch the Lusog Dunong Supplemental Feeding Project Year 2.MANILA— In celebration of the International Youth Day, the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) and Philippine American Life and General Insurance Company (Philam Life) recently signed the Memorandum of Agreement to implement the Aid for Basilan Children (ABC) Project. The ABC Project is now a decade-old partnership between the largest corporate-led foundation and the…
Pioneer Hi-Bred Philippines, Inc. (PHPI) recently signed the Memorandum of Agreement for Ratsada sa Eskwela 35 with Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP). This corporate social initiative is aligned with PHPI’s Community Investment Project in celebration of its 35th year of operations in the Philippines. The project will support 35 scholars from Bacacay, Albay, Oton,…
MANILA — From Los Angeles, California to Angeles, Pampanga — with love.
The world-renowned Filipino member of the Grammy Award-winning band Black Eyed Peas based in the United States West Coast officially begins his work today as the special ambassador to education of the Ninoy and Cory Aquino Foundation (NCAF) Edsa People Power Movement, with two-pronged projects in his original hometown of Sapang Bato village in Angeles City, Pampanga province.
