As schools prepare to reopen in the new normal, PLDT, in partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), recently turned over new classrooms, built from the proceeds of a sustainable recycling program, to Pula Elementary School in Barangay Pula, Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.
PLDT constructed the two-storey, four-classroom building with funds from the Motolite-PBSP Balik Baterya program, a sustainable partnership program that encourages member companies to donate their used lead acid batteries (ULABs) for proper recycling. The fund derived from the responsible waste disposal is then used for various education projects, such as new classrooms.
“Realizing the urgent need for classrooms in many regions across the country, and guided by its core value of malasakit, the PLDT Group has been donating classrooms over the years through its various education programs,” said PLDT and Smart first vice president and head of Corporate Communications Catherine Yap-Yang. “With PLDT’s support to the Motolite-PBSP Balik Baterya Program, our education assistance has built and rehabilitated more than 40 classrooms nationwide,” she added.
