BY: REY ANTHONY H. CHIU
BOHOL, June 1 (PIA)—Two elementary schools in Pilar town topped last year’s implementation of the Department of Education’s (DEPED) Oplan Balik Eskwela's school preparation program.
DepED Bohol Division through superintendent Dr. Wilfreda Bongalos cited Bagumbayan Elementary School and Estaca Elementary High School, all of Pilar town as having the best Brigada Eskwela program implementation in Bohol’s, small and big elementary schools categories.
Moreover, through Desiderio Deligero, DepED OIC for governance and operations division said that in the secondary schools category, cited for last year’s implementation of the Brigada Eskwela are Bantolinao High School in Antequera for small shigh schools and Lila National High School in Lila, for big high schools category.
Launched in 2003, Brigada Eskwela has been one of the education department’s largest community mobilization program which allows communities the chance to show their concern for education while engaging their community members into helping shape the child, according to Deligero.
In Bohol, the launching activity happened in Lila, Bohol with the DepED going through a caravan to Lila to kick off the program as well as acknowledge last year’s winners.
The DepED also saw why Lila NHS became winners in 2013, seeing the massive community response at the launching activities.
This year however, in a six day volunteer program starting May 19-25, Brigada Eskwela mobilized close to 500,000 Boholanos which was also a figure the department pledged in response to the country’s call for volunteerism, DepEd officials said.
As the schools were readied despite a massive earthquake that rendered around 980 classroom buildings needing repairs, the Brigada teams have, upon engineering approval, converted these to temporary learning spaces, ready for the class opening. (mbcn/rahc/PIA7-Bohol)