“Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to
me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and
yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before.” Eli Broad
By Alex P. Vidal
CONCEPCION, Iloilo –- Almost a
year after the super-typhoon Yolanda devastation, elementary pupils at the Borres-Canong
Elementary School in Brgy. Batiti here received early Christmas gifts from a
balikbayan member of the Borres-Canong clan October 27.
School principal Ruviespiere
Tupas said his pupils, from pre-school to grade 6, received more than 200 sets
of school bags containing school supplies and hamburgers from a popular burger
store in Iloilo City, from Chicago-based philanthropist Rhea Borres-Canong, who
was assisted by Ulanie Salinas Lataquin, Nic Lataquin, and Cathy Borres.
Tupas, eight school teachers
led by Leah Z. Declaro and village chief Melvin Obillos witnessed the
distribution in a brief program inside the seven-classroom elementary school.
LOST
Borres-Canong Elementary
School lost its main building during the November 8, 2013 super typhoon known
internationally as Haiyan.
“We were inside the school
when we saw the ceiling of the building fly away,” Obillos said.
Since November 8, 2013, people
in Barangay Batiti, with a population of 950 as of 2013, have recovered eighty
percent, Obillos averred.
Tupas, meanwhile, thanked some
of the non-government organizations (NGOs) that extended help to the school led
by Save the Children, GMA Kapuso Foundation, OSM Shipping Company, and Iloilo
Central Elementary School.
Leopoldo Borres, older brother
of Rhea’s mother, Aurea, said the lot where the school stands, was donated by
his parents Rosendo Borres and Consejo Posadas.
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