Bo. Luz High School receives armchair, notebook donations

BARRIO Luz High School in Cebu City received armchairs donated by Wonkwang Health Science University (WHSU) of Korea.

The turnover of the 220 wooden armchairs held along with PTA induction  ceremony at the school gymnasium was coordinated by Jasmine See, the past president of the Women’s Rotary Club and Mandaue East, together with three Koreans and an American.

Zenaida Gocotano, Barrio Luz Day High School principal, requested Cebu City Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young to help address the lack of armchairs in the school. Her request was submitted last July and referred to the Wongkwang Unversity, which  then approved their request and sent the armchairs last August.

Evelyn Cuajao, principal of Barrio Luz Night High School, said Gocotano, the Koreans in Cebu and Vice Mayor Young coordinated with the Wonkwang University in the armchair donation.

She said Gocotano did not mention the number of armchairs they requested. But she said she was surprised during the turnover ceremony where hundreds of chairs were donated by the Korean university.

“This is the first time that the high school received a donation from WHSU,” Cuajao said.

She said the armchairs were distributed to classrooms that lacked school chairs, while others replaced the old and damaged chairs.

In the same month, the school also received a donation of school supplies from Toyo University in Japan wherein 240 students belonging to the families affected by the fire in their barangay, received three pencils and a notebook each. /UP MassComm student Genevic Habagat