Frontliners get teachers’ gifts. Contributed photo
MABALACAT CITY — As their way of helping protect the frontliners against the coronavirus, teachers from the Division of Mabalacat produced and distributed some 500 face shields.
The effort was initiated by Atlu Bola High School teachers who produced 120 face covers out of the school’s lamination film stocks originally intended for the development of instructional materials, while the Mauaque Resettlement High School made 100 additional shields out of scrap fabric, foam, laminating film and garter.
The Mabalacat Tech-Voc High School was able to come up with 200 face covers from the same materials.
Mayor Crisostomo Garbo thanked the teachers and other groups and individuals that have taken the initiative to combat the dreaded illness by way of donation and other contributions.
The face shields were distributed to frontliners manning the entrance and exit points of Clark and nearby schools within the economic zone.
According to Dr. Roger Nuqui, chief supervisor of the School Governance and Operations Division, the production of face shields was made possible through the leadership of school heads Nathaniel Soriano, Arlene Vidal, and Ariel Calma.
The school heads, along with their teachers – despite the difficulties of travelling due to the lockdown – exerted efforts and resources to offer helping hands for the safety of the barangay police, health workers, security guards, uniformed personnel, among others.
“Somewhere along the way we must learn that there is nothing greater than to do something for others. I hope this will create a chain of kindness, through their own little ways but with bigger results,” Nuqui said.
For their part, Nurses Ivy Sotto and Cyril Dela Cruz also contributed face masks together with Jonnel Bermudo and distributed them to district hospitals, checkpoints, and the city hall, while Abegail De Guzman-Senapilo of Dau Elementary School sewed masks out of fabric and offered them to the barangay volunteers of the community.
