The Visayan Electric Co. (Veco) trooped to Liloan town in northern Cebu last May 26 to help prepare schools for the opening of classes in support of the Department of Education’s Brigada Eskwela.
Twenty-eight Veco employee-volunteers led by billing and collection manager Sandro Aboitiz did minor repairs for Sta. Cruz Elementary School in barangay Sta. Cruz, including the repainting of classroom walls, ceilings, windows and roof.
The employee-volunteers spent their dayoff repairing and repainting the four-classroom building and cleaning up the school’s surroundings.
Together with Aboitiz Foundation Inc., Veco’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) project is focused on education, enterprise development, primary health and child care.
The power utility is encouraging its CSR beneficiaries to support its “Bantay Linya” campaign by reporting to their office incidences of power theft and pilferage.
Veco has so far constructed nine school buildings, rewired 12 public elementary and high schools and donated school furniture made of scrap wood.
Last year, the utility firm conducted its Brigada Eskwela in Tayud Elementary School in barangay Tayud, Consolacion, northern Cebu.