DOLE-hired workers help Antique town prepare schools for classes

Workers hired by DOLE help clean the school premises of Bugo Central School in San Remigio, Antique on May 20, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Bugo Central School)

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique — Workers tapped under the government’s emergency employment program are helping to prepare schools in 45 barangays of San Remigio town in Antique.

Classes will begin on June 16.

The Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced (TUPAD) workers of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) deployed over 2,000 persons.

The workers trimmed tall grasses, planted vegetables on the school gardens, cleared canals, constructed pathways, and other works needed to clean the school grounds.

“TUPAD workers also made pathway openings in the interior barangays of Panpanan I and Rizal so it would be easier for the learners to traverse in going to their schools from their homes through the habal-habal (motorcycle for hire),” San Remigio Municipal Mayor Margarito Mission Jr. said in an interview on Tuesday.

The TUPAD workers rendered a 10-day work and they will be paid P513 daily.

“Our schools are now clean with only a few more work left to be done,” Mission noted.

Meanwhile, Mission said Aningalan Integrated Farm School in Barangay Aningalan and Sumaray Integrated School in Barangay Sumaray will already offer senior high school next month.

“The two schools will be offering Humanities and Social Sciences strand,” he added.

With the offering, learners enrolled in these schools will be able to complete their secondary education without leaving their barangays./apl