Pupils and faculty members of Rosario Elementary
School (RES) welcomed school year 2018-2019 with a big smile as they
held classes in rooms repainted by Universal Robina Corporation (URC).
URC,
a snack manufacturing company with a deep commitment to help develop
local communities, restructured and repainted four classrooms of the
Pasig-based elementary school that is home to 3,469 pupils and 130
faculty and staff.
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| Universal Robina Corporation (URC) employees along with faculty members of Rosario Elementary School (RES), in Pasig City, share their smiles for the camera after a fulfilling day of classroom refurbishing. |
“The four newly
painted classrooms, called Reading Havens, will be the venues for our
reading program that will be launched this S.Y. 2018-2019,” said RES
Principal Josephine Macawile. “Our students recently took the Philippine
Reading Inventory test. The results showed that 57% of RES pupils need
to improvement on their reading comprehension. We hope to eradicate this
through the said reading program.”
Prior
to the repainting of classrooms, URC also held a project among its
employees, which intended to collect recyclable items that were then
sold to further fund the program.
The
company behind well-known brands like C2, Great Taste, Jack ‘n Jill
Chippy, Piattos, Maxx and Cloud 9 also provided school supplies to the
students whose families have been affected by a recent fire incident.