Balanga, Butuan to benefit from SM Foundation program
BALANGA CITY – Two more public elementary schools will soon receive a two-story, fourclassroom building each from SM Prime Holdings Inc. through SM Foundation.
A groundbreaking ceremony was recently held at the Balanga Elementary School in Balanga City, Bataan, where a fully furnished new schoolbuilding will be turned over by June in time for the opening of school year 2019-2020.
Balanga Mayor Francis Garcia was represented by city administrator Rudy de Mesa at the groundbreaking, which was also attended by Balanga Elementary School principal Amy Ed Inieto, Department of Education (DepEd) and local government officials of Balanga, and SM Foundation Schoolbuilding Program coordinator Juris Umali-Soliman.
Meanwhile, in Butuan City, SM’s has finalized school building the ocular team and evaluation of four DepEdrecommended public schools to be the recipient of a new schoolbuilding, with Villa Kananga Elementary School chosen as the beneficiary. by DepEd-Butuan schools division officials, superintendent led Romeo Aprovechar; Atty. Glenn Carampatana, representing the mayor’s office; and school officials with UmaliSoliman went to the site of the new schoolbuilding.