Stakeholders go 'bayanihan' to rebuild school chapel

PAMPANGA. House Speaker and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, MRMF Board of Trustees and Project Head Vicky Cruz, San Simon Mayor Leonora Wong, ex-mayor Rodrigo Canlas, National Telecommunications Commission Regional Director Azor Sitchon, and Global Aseana Chairman Jerry Sy led the groundbreaking for the renovation of the Assumpta Technical High School chapel in San Simon on August 17, 2018. (Princess Clea Arcellaz)
PAMPANGA. House Speaker and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, MRMF Board of Trustees and Project Head Vicky Cruz, San Simon Mayor Leonora Wong, ex-mayor Rodrigo Canlas, National Telecommunications Commission Regional Director Azor Sitchon, and Global Aseana Chairman Jerry Sy led the groundbreaking for the renovation of the Assumpta Technical High School chapel in San Simon on August 17, 2018. (Princess Clea Arcellaz)

IN A school community built through generosity and cooperation aimed at providing education to the less fortunate, the alumni of Assumption schools and private individuals once again went "bayanihan" to rebuild the chapel of Assumpta Technical High School (ATHS), a member of the Assumption school community in San Simon town.

After years of raising funds, House Speaker and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, together with Mother Rosa Memorial Foundation (MRMF) Board of Trustee and project head Vicky Cruz, San Simon Mayor Leonora Wong, former mayor Rodrigo "Digos" Canlas led over the weekend the groundbreaking for the renovation of the decades-old chapel.

Arroyo, being an alumna of Assumption Convent for her grade school and high school education and Assumption College where she graduated magna cum laude for her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, visited ATHS during this year's Holy Week as part of her Visita Iglesia activities.

During her visit, Arroyo vowed to the Assumption sisters and the whole school community to help raise funds for the long-sought renovation and expansion of the 49-year-old chapel nestled at the forefront of the catholic school.

Since it was built on December 1969, the ATHS chapel has been serving as a venue for Eucharistic celebrations, midday prayers, adorations, religious visits and seminars of the Religious of the Assumption sisters, school's faculty and staff, students, parents, alumni and other religious people.

Initially, ATHS' founder MRMF reportedly generated some P3 million from the donations of alumni, students, parents and kind-hearted people intended for the school chapel renovation.

To augment the said funds, Arroyo, together with the MRMF Board of Trustees headed by Cruz, spearheaded the fundraising activity via a golf tournament where alumni, parents, individuals from private sector and companies participated.

Aside from these, San Simon Mayor Leonora Wong, who was also an alumna of the school, said she also donated some P500,000 for the chapel reconstruction as her way of looking back and giving back to ATHS, which molded her during her high school years.

Wong said she also urged investors in San Simon to donate in the ATHS renovation project as part of their respective companies' corporate-social responsibilities, wherein companies like Global Aseana, Real Steel Corporation, Wan Chiong Steel Corporation and Melters Steel Corporation committed to donate.

Also, former mayor Canlas said he shelled out P100,000 for the project, and has vowed to lend his company's construction equipment to lessen the expenses of the renovation.

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