DA pledges P500,000 for Tagum City's school chairs program

Wednesday 16th of May 2012

TAGUM, Davao del Norte, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture has pledged P500,000 for the Care for School Chairs Program (CFSC) of the city government.

During his 30-minute visit in Tagum City’s motor pool on May 14, DA secretary Proceso J. Alcala gave his support to mayor Rey T. Uy’s program.

The said amount, which will be charged against the department’s information and dissemination funds, will be given to Tagum for the acquisition of paints and other materials needed to further sustain the program.

In return, the DA requested that information materials that children will be able to comprehend be painted in the kiddie tables which are distributed to kindergarten institutions in Davao Region.

Alcala specifically pointed out that a certain drawing of a root crop that can be used as a replacement for the rice as the country’s staple food bearing vernacular vital information about it be painted in the kiddie tables.

The secretary pitched this suggestion to Uy, saying that this is one good way of letting school children know the wonders of the country’s agricultural products.

Uy, on the other hand, expressed gratitude to the agriculture chief for his department’s support to the program.

Prior to this, the local chief executive served as a tour guide to Alcala and Davao del Norte governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario at the city’s motor pool where large volumes of seized logs from Loreto, Agusan del Sur are put in place.

Under the CFSC program, these logs will be utilized by fabricating it into school furniture such as armchairs, desks, tables, kiddie chairs, kiddie tables, computer tables, teachers table and cabinets.

As of this writing, 41, 222 pieces of assorted school furniture were already distributed to needy schools in Davao Region from August 2011.

Alcala’s brief tour in the motor pool is in the sidelines of his visit for the People’s Organization’s Congress held in Davao City whose participants are beneficiaries of the Mindanao Rural Development Program.

He also turned over a grinding machine to the Handmaids of Christ the King in Barangay La Filipina which will be used by nuns in its production of capsules made from mangosteen fruit. (Louie Lapat/Edwin of CIO Tagum)