The Department of Education (DepEd) is calling for more volunteers as it kicks off today its National Schools Maintenance program, otherwise known as the 2016 Brigada Eskwela, to ensure that all public schools are ready for the opening of classes on June 13, 2016.
“The 2016 Brigada Eskwela is not just to ready the schools for the reopening of classes but also to bolster the full implementation of the K to 12 program,” Education Secretary Armin Luistro said.
With the theme: “Tayo Para sa Paaralang Ligtas, Maayos, at Handa Mula Kindergarten Hanggang Senior High School” (All of us for safe and proper schools, and ready from Kindergarten to Senior High School), the DepEd aims to unite communities for the purpose of ensuring a better future for the next generation.
BRIGADA ESKWELA — Volunteers from a private company fix and paint old school chairs at Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City, May 28, 2016, as part of the Department of Education’s “Brigada Eskwela,” an annual schools maintenance program two weeks before the opening of classes. (Mark Balmores)
A veritable army of volunteers – parents and teachers, students and alumni, members of civic groups and others will descend upon the schools all over the country from May 30 to June 4, 2016 to ensure that everything is ready, safe, and clean for school children.
“The annual Brigada Eskwela is our version of modern “bayanihan” where all sectors pitch in to make sure that our schools are clean, safe, disaster-prepared and conducive to learning when students troop back to the schools in June,” Luistro said.
Luistro stressed that the goal is to see to it that on June 13, regular classes will immediately push through because the schools have already been prepared.
Through the Brigada Eskwela, DepEd, its partners from the national government agencies, private sector, non-government organizations, community members and individual volunteers mobilize resources and join together to do maintenance works in all public elementary and secondary schools nationwide.
Luistro said the partner agencies also contribute school furniture, construction and repair materials and manual labor as part of their civic duty.
Furthermore, DepEd, despite being riddled with criticisms over the full-implementation of the new academic reform, affirmed that with the combined efforts from different sectors, schools are more ready for the nationwide implementation of the Senior High School of the K to 12 Program for basic education.
DepEd has recorded some P28.6 billion worth of resources since the start of Brigada Eskwela in 2003.
Luistro said it started as an informal initiative in the early years, until it was institutionalized to be a part of the annual school opening activity.
DepEd said interested groups or individuals can coordinate with the Office of the Undersecretary for Partnerships and External Linkages at (02) 633-7207, External Partnerships Service-Adopt-a-School Program Secretariat at (02) 638-8637, (02) 638-8639 or any DepEd Field Offices and public schools nationwide. # Adapted News – www.deped.gov.ph
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