SM employees join Brigada Eskwela
The employees and security team of SM City Bacolod had trooped back to the school for their annual participation in Brigada Eskwela.
This year, the mall’s adopted school is Rizal Elementary School at Araneta Street, Bacolod City.
Joining the Brigada Eskwela were volunteers from the different departments of the mall’s administration office, led by assistant mall manager Julia Javellana. A school building in the compound comprised of four classrooms was cleaned, repaired and refurbished. SM employees also painted the classrooms’ desks with tools and supplies provided by the mall.
Javellana said that this annual activity supported by mall management encourages their employees to share their time and skills to this “bayanihan” movement of the Department of Education.
Javellana added that it is important for the community to also benefit from SM’S citizenship in the city, thus the SM Cares program.
SM Cares provides an avenue for employees of the company to participate in various causes and immerse themselves in the community through the leadership of the mall’s human resources department. These employee volunteerism programs are done on top of SM’S institutionalized social responsibility programs that benefit persons with disabilities, elderly, children, environment, farming communities, among others.
The school’s principal, Dennis Estaniel, thanked SM for choosing again Rizal Elementary School to be a beneficiary of its programs. Last year, 1,000 children received new shoes under SM’S “60,000 Shoes Campaign.”
The Deped’s Brigada Eskwela program brings the government and private sector together to prepare public schools for the opening of classes.*