Maasin City dad gears up for more waves of year-round Brigada Eskwela

By Erna S. Gorne

Maasin City (August 28) — Maasin City Mayor Maloney Samaco has geared up for another wave of year round Brigada Eskwela as he dispatched a group of city personnel to tackle on the repairs, painting of the classrooms and its roofs and cleaning up the surroundings at the Maria Clara Elementary School, this was learned during his interview over DyDM.

Last year, Maasin City government has been a regional awardee for its own version of brigade eskwela throughout the year, a continued effort to see to it that the atmosphere of the schools in the city division. To ensure that public schools are conducive for learning even beyond the usual one-week brigade eskwela which were usually conducted before the opening of classes.

Mayor Samaco sent the personnel from the Office of the General Services of the city government to pursue the local brigade eskwela as the city government’s manifestation of an all-out support to the children’s education, a legacy that he wanted to left behind by his administration.

Maasin City government is the only local government unit throughout Eastern Visayas Region to have pursued the local brigade eskwela all year round, it was learned.

Mayor Samaco also sees to it that the all the grade levels of pupils were given notebooks each, as a component of his priority project, to promote the children’s education.

He also initiated for the establishment of a college education department almost fully subsidized by the city government. The Maasin City College now offers four bachelor of science courses namely on Public Administration, Agriculture, Social Services and Travel and Tourism. (PIA Southern Leyte/esg)