Cagayan de Oro City — Hundreds of field workers of the programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in Northern Mindanao have joined the Department of Education (DepEd) preparing schools in their respective communities for the upcoming opening of classes.

 

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 workers, mostly of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Sustainable Livelihood Program, and Kalahi-CIDSS, went to the different schools in their area of responsibilities to help communities clean classrooms and surroundings; repair chairs, ceilings, and tables; paint classrooms, among others.

 

Along with DSWD workers are Pantawid beneficiaries who actively participates the week long activity of DepEd every year to ensure that all public school facilities are clean, orderly, and safe for the opening of schools in June.