The eMagazine of Philippine Information Agency 10
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016
CDO upholds quality education in school bldg provision
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – “Kinahanglan ato gyud ning ipabangon ang high school in order to ensure nga ang atong mga bata dinhi sa Bonbon will have a chance to have a better tomorrow.”
(There is a need to uplift the high school in order to ensure that the children here in Bonbon will have a chance to have a better tomorrow), says City Mayor Oscar Moreno during the blessing and turn-over ceremony of the two-storey, eight-classroom with covered roof deck building in Bonbon National High School on September 26. Funded by the Local School Board (LSB) through the Special Education Fund for Secondary Education, the establishment of the P11.5M school building aims to provide better, comfortable and conducive to learning environment to the students in the barangay. In his message, Moreno stressed that there are only 360-380 enrollees in the said school and this number is a very small portion of the barangay’s big population. “Bonbon is not a small barangay,” he added. Based on their study, the city government has found out that students in Bonbon prefer to enroll in Kauswagan, Bayabas and Misamis
Oriental General Comprehensive High School (MOGCHS) due to lack of facility such as the classrooms in Bonbon National High School. Prior to the establishment of the new school building, there were only 10 classrooms in the high school and two of these are even used as daycare centers. Moreno also said that through providing good quality facility to the high school, people in Bonbon will “have an equal chance to grow and acquire wisdom through education.” On October 3 this year, classes can already be held in the new building. The city government, along with Bonbon Barangay Chair Jacky Lynne Merto, is optimistic that more youth in the barangay will be enticed to enroll in the said school with the establishment of the new facility. The high school building is also the city government’s opportunity and privilege to help the people of Bonbon who have less in life but more in law. (RTP/PIA10)
500-M tech-voc school for Mindanao soon to rise VILLANUEVA, Misamis Oriental – The Andrew Gotianun Foundation, Inc. (AGFI) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with a pledge of P500 million to the Educational Research and Development Assistance (ERDA) Foundation and Xavier University to put up a Technical-Vocational High School for scholars at the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate in Villanueva town, Misamis Oriental. The school, which will be called Andrew L. Gotianun, Sr. Center for Integrated Technologies, Xavier University, is envisioned to produce graduates who are world-ready, with international standard competencies, and spiritual and social commitment. AGFI shall finance the construction of the school buildings, workshops, and dormitories, as well as the provision of furniture and other equipment, IT, Tech-Voc machinery and transport
vehicles. The Foundation also commits to partly finance the annual operating costs of the senior high school for the first five years of operations so all its students can attend as full, live-in scholars. Dedicated to the memory of Filinvest Founder Andrew L. Gotianun, Sr., the school represents his advocacy for education and his commitment to the progress of Mindanao. (FDC)
CDO Negosyo Center industry partners go to Lanao Norte for learning mission ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte – The Business Development Division of Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Misamis Oriental spearheaded a learning mission with Negosyo Center Industry Partners to Lanao del Norte on 8 September 2016 to visit existing Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and facilities in the area.
The group was composed of representatives from seven Negosyo Center Industry Partners namely: Capitol University - College of Business Administration, Xavier University School of Business and Management, Lourdes College - College of Business Accountancy and Technology Program, Northern Mindanao Food Safety Team (NMFST), Chris Gomez Creative Design, Misamis Oriental Multi-Fiber Cluster Inc. (MOMCI) and DOST X Regional Office together with the Negosyo Center Staff from El Salvador City. The learning mission aimed to visit existing MSMEs and facilities in the area, for the Industry Partners to have further appreciation and understanding of the various processes involved in business. First stop was the Bamboo Technology Resource Center (BTRC) at MSU IIT Campus. Sergio Tomas M. Obach, one of the staff of BTRC facilitated the orientation of their key programs and services. He also showed to the group the various equipment available in their facility which are used to provide services to bamboo-based MSMEs. Still within the MSU IIT Campus was the group’s second stop, the FabLab Mindanao Center for Innovation and Invention – the first Fabrication Laboratory in Mindanao which was launched last August 17, 2016. It is also one of the shared service facility of DTI. “FabLab is a technical prototyping
platform for innovation and invention thus providing stimulus for local entrepreneurship.” Welissa Domingo, BDD Staff from DTI Lanao del Norte gave a brief orientation on the equipment that were available for use in the facility. With its sophisticated equipment, FabLab is open to all students, researchers and MSMEs all over Mindanao which provides an opportunity to transform ideas to designs and designs to prototypes good for manufacturing. The last stop of the group was in Homebiz Wood and Bamboo Craft, one of the shared service facility of DTI owned by Robert L. Palomares. The group was amazed of the design and quality of the bamboo products manufactured by the said MSME. Like the saying “in business, if you don’t innovate, you die”, Palomares is a personification of an MSME who perseveres as much to innovate, to further his manufacturing processes so as to produce bamboo products that are competitive in the global market. (Rozanne Marie C. San Juan/ DTI Misamis Oriental)