March 2, 2006
SUN STAR DAILY
Center to train provincial schools division teachers
Company, which allocated P3million for the projects, will
also upgrade facility in
Cebu City
schools division office
CEBU’s
public school teachers will have computer training in fully
equipped centers by summer with the help of a foundation
that helps schoolchildren learn about information technology.
Bigfoot Asia Pacific Foundation Inc. released yesterday
a grant of P3 million to set up a computer training center
for the provincial schools division and to upgrade the one
in the Cebu City schools division office along Imus Road.
The two divisions will receive P1.5 million each. In yesterday’s
memorandum of agreement signing at the Bigfoot Center, Cebu
Schools Division Superintendent Recaredo Borgonia and Cebu
City Schools Division Superintendent Leonilo Oliva said
the money will be a great help in improving their services.
Borgonia said Bigfoot’s contribution will benefit
the 560,000 school children in the province, 90 percent
of whom still have not access to computers.
Bigfoot chief executive officer Joe Mercado in a press conference
said Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia suggested the renovation of a
room in the former provincial jail along M.J. Cuenco to
be used as training center.
Bigfoot will provide computers, servers, software, structured
cabling and internet connection. Helping Bigfoot in the
project is Globe Telecom for the Cebu province and Division’s
center and the Phil. Long Distance Telephone Co. for Cebu
City’s center.
“There’s no way we could move forward if we
don’t have information technology,” Mercado
said.
He believes empowering citizens with technology will help
solve problems like poverty and economic dislocations.
Aside from the training for teachers, Bigfoot will also
give maintenance services for the project.
Since it was launched three years ago, the Bigfoot foundation
has already given over P15 million to Cebu’s public
schools for computer laboratory, training of teachers and
books.
At present it has set up seven computer laboratories in
schools located in the city’s mountain barangays and
26 in the towns of Barili, Dumanjug, Daanbantayan, Carcar,
Naga, Camotes, Oslob and Liloan. CYR
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