CEC teaches students 'community payback'

Sunday, October 31, 2010

CLARK FREEPORT -- More than academic education, the Clark Education City (CEC) also teach their students to give back to their community.

Recently, CEC held a fund-raising project called "Sausage for a cause" where they sold sandwiches for the benefit of old patients at the Rafael Lazatin Memorial Medical Center (formerly Ospital ning Angeles).

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Nichole Major, one of the foreign teachers at CEC, said the proceeds of the project will be used to buy bed sheets, pillows, soaps and other health care products for the elderly.

Aside from the hospital in Angeles City, Major said they will also help nursing homes in the province and in Bataan.

"If this fund-raising project goes well, we'll have another one so we can help more hospitals and nursing homes," Major said.

Eunice Bienncie, a health care student from CEC, said she joined the fund raising project as her way of giving back to the community.

"So instead of having a class, we dedicated one day for the fund raising project," Bienncie said.

The CEC is an Australian-funded school, which aims to create a real world environment that is 100 percent Australian: not only the education, but also the style and living environment that would be experienced within Australia.

It occupies the former 1999 Philippines Expo site. The first stage of the campus comprises a significant 300,000 square meters.

The CEC offers a combination of impeccable safe, modern, spacious, fully integrated training and living facilities. Moreover, it has exceptional academic faculty and professional support mentors who vow to ensure the successful completion of a student's preferred program.

Among the courses offered by the CEC are English language, auto mechanical, business, engineering, health care, hospitality and refrigeration and air-condition repair. (Charlene Cayabyab)