Steel plant gives school bags to students

SAN SIMON. Real Steel Corporation Pollution Control Officer Cyril Hilario, San Simon Councilor Glenn Yabut, Sta. Monica Barangay Treasurer Myra Yabut, Kagawad Filipina De Dios and Sta. Monica Elementary School Principal Flor Mangalino led Friday's distribution of school bags from Real Steel Corporation. (Chris Navarro)
SAN SIMON. Real Steel Corporation Pollution Control Officer Cyril Hilario, San Simon Councilor Glenn Yabut, Sta. Monica Barangay Treasurer Myra Yabut, Kagawad Filipina De Dios and Sta. Monica Elementary School Principal Flor Mangalino led Friday's distribution of school bags from Real Steel Corporation. (Chris Navarro)

SAN SIMON -- It’s back to school again and it’s the time of the year when parents and students rush to buy school stuff. But in this town, several families did not only save time, but also money as a private steel company on Friday distributed free school bags to public school students.

Real Steel Corporation, a steel smelting plant located along Quezon Road in Barangay Isidro here, once again shared its resources to more than a thousand school kids of public elementary schools through its annual “Balik Eskwela 2018” program.

According to Real Steel Corporation Pollution Control officer Cyril Hilario, a total of 1,600 schools bag of different sizes and colors were simultaneously given away to students of Sta. Monica and San Isidro Elementary Schools and its employees’ children.

“This is part of our corporate-social responsibility initiated by our boss who has been generously sharing his generosity to our host community Barangay San Isidro and neighbor Barangay Sta. Monica through different community-oriented activities,” she said.

Hilario added that the activity also aims to show the company’s gratitude to Simonians, particularly residents and officials of Barangay San Isidro, for adopting them and making them part of the community.

“What’s a better way to give thanks than giving back to whom you owe it to? That is why our boss continue to conduct activities like this, and medical missions and environmental clean-up to include, to show his deepest gratitude to people of San Simon,” she noted.

Meanwhile, Sta. Monica Elementary School Principal Flor Mangalino said that the aid extended by Real Steel Corporation will be of big help to families who have limited resources but wishes to provide complete school materials for their children.

“Instead of spending it for bags, they can now use it to buy other things like shoes. But there are also children who are incapable of buying anything so this gift from Real Steel Corporation is really important for them,” she shared.

This was seconded by San Isidro Elementary School Principal Melanie Castañeda as she expressed gratitude in behalf of the school community to the steel corporation for continuously providing assistance to its students.

“We are blessed that Real Steel Corporation partnered with us in our journey to uplift the education of children here. This is already the second time that San Isidro Elementary School became recipient of the Balik Eskwela program, aside from their sponsoring of the upgrading and concreting of our covered court here,” she added.

Association of Barangay Captains-elect and San Isidro village chief Randie Flores acknowledged the sustained support extended by steel plant to the people of San Simon.

“Real Steel Corporation has been our partner in developing our elementary school here, from upgrading our court to helping our children. It is really significant for the family that expenses in purchasing school bags will not come out of their pockets so we are really thankful,” he said.

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