TARLAC CITY — Mayor Cristy Angeles has done it again!
She has fulfilled her campaign promise to parents and public elementary school children in the 76 barangays of the city to provide free school bags with complete school supplies.
Dubbed as the “Lingap Anghel, Balik Eskwela 2017” project Mayor Angeles distributed the bags and school supplies to 43,500 elementary school pupils from Grades I to VI in all the eighty-eight [88] public elementary schools all over the city.
“This is my gift to parents and children in our city. It has always been my wish to help in the education of our children and ease the burden of parents in the hard times that they are experiencing these days,” Mayor Angeles said.
Mayor Cristy went from school to school greeted by happy and cheering school kids, parents and teachers along with other city and provincial officials.
The school bags given were filled with complete supplies such as pencil case, pencil, crayons, eraser, paste, double sharpener, pad paper, brown envelope, bond papers, eight composition notebooks, coloring book and ruler for grades 1 to 3 pupils.
Grades 4 to 6 pupils received school bags with the same supplies and ballpoint pens, intermediate pad, ten (10) spiral notebooks and drawing book.
Mayor Angeles also made good on her promise to teachers that she will give back to them their monthly allowance from the local school board fund that was denied by the previous city administration.
Around 2,400 public school teachers trooped to city hall on that day to gladly receive P2,250 each covering their allowances for three [3] months.
The teachers received a total of 5.4 million or P750 each from the City Treasury which conducted the release.
Mayor Angeles has pledged that she will not only restore the teachers’ allowances that used to be only P500 per month but raise it to P750.
The restoration of the teachers’ allowance was one of Mayor Angeles’ major promises she made in her Inaugural Address upon her assumption to office last year./Tarlac CIO