Pilipinas Shell Helps Batangas City Schools Prepare For The New Normal

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LIFESTYLE | September 16, 2020

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Shell Companies in the Philippines (SCiP) has donated health kits and office equipment to fifteen schools across different parts of Batangas City, the capitol of the province of Batangas, to help them prepare for the new remote-based mode education as part of the new normal amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These donations were coursed through the Department of Education's Brigada Eskwela program, an annual nationwide initiative which originally intended to maintain and refurbish school facilities in preparation for the new school year but repurposed to strengthen the schools' capacity to provide students with self-learning modules.
Among the recipients are the elementary schools of Tabangao, Ambulong, Libjo, San Isidro, Malitam, Wawa, Sta. Clara, Bolbok, Sta. Rita, Calicanto and Julian Pastor Memorial. The national high schools of Libjo, Malitam and Sta. Rita are also benefitted with the donations from Shell along with Tabangao Integrated School. Each school has received an Internet modem, two printers and 15 boxes of bond paper. Shell has also donated 11,618 face masks for students and 611 health kits inclusive of face masks, face shields, PPE (personal protection equipment) suits and Messy Bessy dishwashing products teachers to ensure that all health, safety and sanitary protocols are observed as protection against COVID-19.

The face masks and PPE suits were produced by members of the SIBBAP Multi-Purpose Cooperative, beneficiaries of Pilipinas Shell Foundation's livelihood development program which retained seamstresses from Ambulong, Batangas to help bolster PPE supplies during the pandemic. DepEd Batangas City's chief education supervisor for School Governance and Operations thanked Shell, PSFI, and Malampaya Foundation Inc. (MFI) for the donations that the agency will value for the students and teachers prior to the much-awaited opening of the new school year on October 5, 2020. On the other hand, Pilipinas Shell President and CEO Cesar Romero stated that the students in the schools helped by the company represent the future of the nation, pandemic or no pandemic, and it is important to safeguard them by ensuring the uninterrupted educational development of young Filipinos.

For 106 years, Shell has remained committed to the Filipino youth by being a partner in nation-building, working to help the country address present and foreseeable challenges for a brighter tomorrow. Despite the ongoing transformation of its Tabangao Refinery into an import facility similar to its existing Northern Mindanao Import Facility servicing the southern parts of the country, Shell also remains committed to support local communities in the province of Batangas amidst the tough and enduring challenges brought by the global pandemic.