Reading through an article about PRO-FRIENDS
on the internet in http://business.inquirer.net/113263/a-worthy-story-for-a-brand-new-home-with-pro-friends-ka-rin-ba-campaign I came to realize that this company is more
than just making profits and business. It is a company that looks after the development
of the people inside the developments it created. Further research about the
company brought me to different articles documenting the various activities
that they are involved in to push the welfare of the communities that they are
helping. It opened me up to Profriends pursuits on furthering the education of
the children within the confines of the communities it developed. There is a
whole list of things that they have done to contribute to the education of
students in the developments. The first on the list was the opening of
St.Edward Integrated School in Lancaster Estates. This is a school under the
consultancy arrangement of Lassallian Schools Supervision Office (LASSO) the
implementing body of the Lassalian Schools Supervision Services Association. De
La Salle University Manila. The school was opened and inaugurated in April 2012
and graced by the presence of representatives coming from the Department of
Education, Lassalian Schools Supervision Office, Profriends management and
executives and St. Edward Integrated School board of trustees, staff and
officers. This initiative of establishing a school inside the development is
just one aspect of the plan of building a complete community.
Another advocacy that the company got
involved in lately was the Department of Education’s “adopt a school program”
also prevalently known as “Brigada Eskwela”. The school that they helped out
was the Flaviana F. Arayata Memorial Elementary School in Tanza Cavite.
Volunteers coming from the Property Company of
Friends, Inc. worked hand in hand with the students, teachers, parents
and school personnel in giving the school facilities such as desks, chairs,
teacher’s tables and book shelves a paint once
over.
The books were also wrapped in transparent
plastic cover to enhance protection and increase its useful life. A general
clean-up was also done around the school campus in preparation for the school
opening. On top of the help provided by the Profriends volunteers, the company
also made a donation to the school. They gave the school a computer set with
printer, a sewing machine and new books. Another similar activity that
Profriends got engaged in a year prior to this was the program done in Iloilo
at the Pal-Agon elementary school in Pavia Iloilo. The volunteers facilitated
the repair of the school stage, engaged the children in a book reading session
by reading story books and even instilled in the students the importance of
eating a healthy and balanced diet by sowing vegetables seeds into the school’s
garden. The Brigada Eskwela project is an annual activity led by the Department
of Education with the main goal of getting the school ready in the upcoming school
year. The company is pursuing continuous participation in these types of
activities in accordance to their mission-vision of “creating communities and
transforming lives” which can only be realized into fruition by the advancement
of education in the country.
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