Phl mining corp distributes school bags

By Jeanevive D. Abangan

Wednesday 6th of June 2012

MONKAYO, Compostela Valley Province, June 6 (PIA) -- A mining company has distributed school knapsacks for around 100 pupils from the kinder, Grades 1 and 2 levels of Matanagad Elementary School and Malinao Primary School in Brgy. Upper Ulip, Monkayo, Compostella Valley on Monday, June 4.

Philippine Mining Development Corporation (PMDC) Community Relations Officer Ferdinand Dobli said the school bag distribution was a project under PMDC’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) program dubbed as “Health, Environment and education, Rural infrastructure and Other opportunities for livelihood (HERO).”

PMDC will also be giving away school bags to 70 pupils of Letter V Primary School also in Brgy. Upper Ulip while pupils in a primary school in the Municipality of Compostela will also be receiving their share of 100 bags from PMDC.

In its school bag distribution project, PMDC got support from Paraiso Consolidate Mining Corp. (PACOMINCO), which contributed 70 pieces of school bags containing pad papers, rain coats and white t-shirts.

As recipient school children belonged to indigenous peoples communities, PMDC invited the presence of United Council of Elders and Leaders (UTCEL) chairperson Carlos Duron, Upper Ulip Barangay Capt. Ferdinand Latiban who formerly was the chairperson of Upper Ulip Tribal Emancipated Cooperative (UTEC).

On the same day, PMDC also sponsored the a medical mission which had become one of the highlights of the 22nd founding anniversary celebration of Araw ng Mt. Diwata, a barangay within the Mineral Reservation Area.

The medical mission brought to Mt. Diwata medical consultation services, blood typing, circumcision administered by medical doctors and nurses of the Municipal Health Office of Monkayo in cooperation with the Department of Health (DOH) which provided medicines. (PIA-11/Jeanevive Duron-Abangan)