By Jocelyn P. Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Close to 70 used notebooks and roughly 80 old books were collected from city hall employees as the local government through the City Human Resource and Management Office (CHRMO) launched last month “Project Notebook,” a love drive for the benefit of schoolchildren of city hall’s job order employees and street sweepers.
City Information Officer Sheila Covarrubias said a donation box was placed at the entrance of city hall where employees can drop off used notebooks, old books including pencils and crayons.
This initiative is just in time as classes will open this June.
Covarrubias informed that under the project, each city hall employee is required to recycle used notebooks. The concept is to remove unused sheets, remove the spring, compile and saw the clean sheets together to make one usable notebook.
Old books are also fixed or repaired before dropping them off in the donation box.
The project will culminate on May 16, after which, all donated items will be turned-over and distributed to the beneficiaries, while the books will be donated to the schoolchildren through the City Schools Division.
