SAN ANDRES, Quezon – Four-hundred pupils and 360 households benefited from a community outreach program conducted in Barangay Alibijaban, an island-village here, on Friday, September 22.
PUPILS receive slippers from a joint project of the CENRO-DENR in Catanauan, Quezon, Tanggol Kalikasan, Quezon Tri-Media group, and Converge-Lucena in the island-barangay Alibijaban in San Andres, Quezon on Friday, September 22. (Danny Estacio)
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO-DENR)-Catanauan, Quezon led the project in collaboration with Tanggol Kalikasan-Timog Katagalugan, an environmental organization; Quezon Tri-Media Group (QTMG) based in Lucena City, this province, and Converge-Lucena.
Household beneficiaries received five kilos of well-milled rice each.
On the other hand, pupils of the Alibijaban Elementary School received slippers under the “Tsinelas para sa Kabataan ng Alibijaban” (Slippers for the Youth of Alibijaban) project.
Most of the recipients attend school without footwear. Others wear broken slippers and only a few have shoes and neat slippers.
Teachers and the principal assisted in the distribution and thanked donors for the donation.
MAP of San Andres, Quezon. The red dot on the right in the island-barangay of Alibijaban.
San Andres is the farthest town in Quezon. This fourth-class municipality has seven barangays and is 128 kilometers east-southeast of the provincial capital of Lucena City.