GENERAL SANTOS CITY (7 February 2015) – City Mayor Ronnel Rivera, along with the RD Foundation Inc. (RDFI), committed to give 7,000 armchairs to further lower the armchair deficiency in public schools within the city.
As many as 3,720 school armchairs are expected to be donated by Mayor Rivera and RDFI after the end of March 2015.
It was revealed during the Education Summit last year that the scarcity of armchairs here in Gensan has reached up to 14,000.
Under the program of “Edukasyon Mo, Kabuhayan Ko”, Mayor Rivera is pursuing to end the inadequacy of armchairs in city schools.
This means that 14,000 out of the 139,000 public school students in Gensan have no armchair to sit on, decreasing their viability to learn and study.
Through the “Edukasyon Mo, Kabuhayan Ko”, the mayor will close the gap into half, making it easier for the DepEd Gensan to provide the rest of the supply.
The ones who are constructing these armchairs are selected persons-with-disabilities (PWDs) here in the city. They were hired by the RDFI to do this project to give them profitable livelihood.
Each of these chairs cost around P700.
By the end of March, the total expense for the 3,720 armchairs is around P2.6 million.
The funding for this program does not come from RDFI or Mayor Rivera alone; several businesses and institutions were also tapped to take part in this initiative.
The far-flung Upper Labay Elementary School is the first recipient of the “Edukasyon Mo, Kabuhayan Ko” this year. They received 128 armchairs Wednesday (February 4). (Gensan CPIO/ Ian John M. Lagare)
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