PAGADIAN
CITY – Complementing the implementation of the Alternative
Learning System (ALS) by the Department of Education (DepED), the National Grid
Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP)-Mindanao District I has adopted two
barangays in the municipalities of Molave and Mahayag all in Zamboanga del Sur.
Literacy
classes for adult learners will be conducted in these barangays with the NGCP
and the Zamboanga del Sur Electric Cooperative (ZAMSURECO)-I providing for the
teachers’ pay and the learning modules.
In
his message during the recent project launch held at Aurora Substation in
Cabilinan, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, NGCP’s Corporate Affairs Department head
Nelson F. Cabangon bared that the ALS project for Barangay Alicia in Molave and
Barangay San Isidro in Mahayag “is the first Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR) undertaking” of the company in the area.
“Thank
you for giving us the opportunity to help in a way of giving a project with
lasting imprint among the recipients,” Cabangon said adding “our CSR program
covers four key areas: education, health, culture and environment.”
The
recipient barangays will each have 30 adult learners who are mostly indigenous
people belonging to Subanen tribe.
Acting
Assistant Schools Division Superintendent Marcom F. Borongan of the Zamboanga
del Sur Schools Division expressed his gratitude to the NGCP for “sharing its
resources with the less fortunate ones.”
With
the NGCP paying for the teacher’s pay, Borongan considered it “a big
contribution to the DepED in particular and to the government in general.”
Borongan
concluded his message with the saying: “Education makes people easy govern, but
difficult to enslave.” (PIA9)
