Fire-hit school in Davao gets new chairs from Tagum

By Jeanevive D. Abangan

Tuesday 31st of July 2012

DAVAO CITY, July 31 -- The local government of Tagum City delivered new school furniture last July 25 to Alejandra Navarro Elementary School, a fire-ravaged school in Lasang, Davao City.

Mayor Rey T. Uy went to the school to officially turn over 170 pieces of desks, 100 kiddie chairs and six rostrums, through his brainchild project dubbed "Care for School Chairs" (CFSC) Program.

A fire destroyed nine of the classrooms in the said school last July 13, damaging at least 500 school chairs, according to the school principal.

Tagum’s local chief executive was joined by Davao City vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte, who hailed Tagum’s CFSC Program and thanked Mayor Uy for readily extending assistance to the school even if it is not in his area of responsibility.

Duterte then assured Uy that he will speed up the transfer of a sizable volume of confiscated logs to Tagum stored in a container van in one of the ports of Davao.

This was welcomed by Uy who expressed that this should be done as soon as possible for the logs to be exposed and to be air-dried to prevent possible decay.

After a short program in this turn over, Duterte gave Uy an aerial tour around Davao City using the vice mayor’s chopper before heading back to Tagum.

The CFSC Program also went to the municipality of Bansalan in the province of Davao del Sur last July 24, where 260 pieces of armchairs and 100 pieces of kiddie chairs were given.

Bansalan Mayor Edwin Reyes accepted the donated school furniture from Mayor Rey T. Uy.

As of July 25, a total of 58,202 pieces of school furniture consisting of armchairs, desks, tables, kiddie chairs, computer tables, bookshelves, rostrums were made and delivered by the local government unit of Tagum through the CFSC Program since August 2011. (Louie Lapat of CIO Tagum)