WITH the ‘Yolanda’ nightmare still behind them, students in Leyte province particularly in Palo National High School are moving on and back to their studies with newly-built classrooms.
The classrooms in Palo are among the 166 structures built by the Philippine Red Cross in partnership with the Red Cross Society of China across the province to ensure the unhampered conduct of class sessions during the school opening season.
Scores of school buildings were destroyed by the strongest typhoon to make landfall and hundreds of school children in the affected areas had no classrooms to return to.
Although the PRC is exerting its best efforts to provide food, water and shelter to ‘Yolanda’ victims, it wants to restore some semblance of normalcy to the people’s lives, especially the kids. Well, that’s a better idea and will do really good for these hapless people.
So PRC Chairman Richard Gordon opted to build transitional classrooms side by side with building temporary homes for typhoon victims. With the Red Cross Society of China pitching in, the joint effort was able to construct new classrooms in a one-month record prior to school opening.
Michael Regis, the school principal, said he and the parents of school children are grateful that the kids returned to school which has its classrooms that are conducive to learning, in spite of the destruction and rubbles around them.
Mr. Regis says: “We appreciate the concern of Chairman Gordon in giving priority to the children’s education…It may take years for us to recover from typhoon Yolanda’s devastation but the continuance of the children’s education means that our future generation will be able to rise above the storm and create a more resilient and intelligent community in the coming years armed with the necessarily skills to cope up with magnitude challenges such as Yolanda.”
BISTEK WANTS TREASURER’S HEAD
THE Finance department has yet to act on the repeated requests of Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista to relieve City Treasurer Edgar Villanueva for allegedly flaunting a lavish lifestyle from signature clothes to a fleet of luxury vehicles.
Of course, the mayor wouldn’t reveal what’s really on his mind only for the usual “loss of trust and confidence” but City Hall insiders know fully well that his relationship with Villanueva has already gone sour. Hence, he’s recommending people whom he believes are the best replacement for Villanueva who apparently is unperturbed and continued to clings to his post since, anyway, it’s his boss, Sec. Cesar Purisima, who has the last say.
There may be something bigger than the sudden change of lifestyle of Villanueva. Maybe the good treasurer doesn’t deliver well.
But wait, how come the DoF just cited him as the second best at handling funds in the department’s new monitoring project? Well, that could be the reason why Purisima is unconvinced to let go of him despite Bistek’s clamor.
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