TCCII to continue donating school buldings

TACLOBAN CITY – The Tacloban Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry(TCCII) said that they will continue to support the education department in providing assistance through construction of school buildings not just in the region.

TCCII president Go Tic Ching said that education is one of the best ways to address poverty situation of the country which is why they are concentrating in their program School for Barrio Program to ensure that each students will have and are secure to have a facility where they can study well.

Just this week, their group through Federation of Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Incorporated(FCCCI) turned over classroom buildings in Tacloban and in the municipality of Palo, donated by several members of their organization.

Ching said that there are several school buildings that had recently been constructed are to be turned over before the year ends, among which is in the city of Maasin which they consider as a milestone for their organization.

“That school building is to be used by students who are differently able (deaf-mute) which is why we consider it as a special project,” Ching said.

The official also called for the help and cooperation of all local government officials to provide them assistance especially in the needs of their groups like aggregates that they pass on to the LGU as their counterpart.

Moreover, the back-log on number of classroom in the region had slowly become narrow, said Department of Education Regional Office 8 official Rebecca Ragrag, due to the help of private sectors who had continuously supporting them to address the problem.

Ragrag, although she was not able to present the data of how many schools in the region still needs additional classroom and the current ratio of classroom per students, said that the problem is not that much now as only few schools in the region are experiencing shortage of classrooms.

Although she admits that there is still a need to construct more schools with the implementation of K to 12 that is expected to provide increase of enrollees, Ragrag said that the private sector had helped them a lot in providing solution to the needs of classroom building in every school.

“This is a best model of public private partnership which we can be proud of,” Ragrag said.

This year alone, according to her, several school buildings (one unit two classrooms) were turned over by the Federation of FCCCII to schools that had asked help from the business group.