ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews / September 12) — The Aboitiz-owned flour milling Pilmico Foods Corp. donated P500,000 to the city’s task force on education, to help the city lift the poor performance of its education sector.
“It’s a miracle! Somebody believes in our cause,” said Iligan city mayor Lawrence Lluch Cruz, after he signed the deed of donation last Monday.
The Pilmico Foods Corp. donated the money to Task Force 47-74+1, a multi-sectoral movement here to reverse the down trend of the passing rate of pupils in the National Achievement Test (NAT).
The deed of donation stipulated that the “amount is intended for the reproduction of workbooks for grade six pupils which is academically eyed as a tool for the enhancement of their analytical and comprehensive skills”.
“We’re indeed very concern on the low performance of our children. This is a difficult task to accomplish without the benevolent involvement of education stakeholders,” said Reano Gumalo, vice president of the Cebu-based flour milling company.
Gumalo signed the deed of donation for the company. Iligan City schools division superintendent Domingo Samson also signed it. The signing was held September 8.
“We hope that our donation could help improve the learning capabilities of our pupils and may the workbooks hone the reading and analytical skills of pupils; increase their level of comprehension competencies and effectiveness as well as their literacy,” he added. [More at MindaNews]
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