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Meralco unit MPower ramps up K-12 education support

DT · Nov 8, 2022, 2:19 AM

As part of its Back-to-School Donation Drive, MPower and One Meralco Foundation turned over school supplies to the teachers from Lagundi Elementary School in Plaridel, Bulacan. | Photograph courtesy of Meralco

MPower, the local retail electricity supplier of the Manila Electric Company, and its partners have poured in over P8 million for various education programs that benefitted some 3,000 kindergarten students in 19 schools in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

In line with the resumption of face-to-face classes this year, MPower recently donated P875,000 of school supplies to seven beneficiary schools, including printers, hard drives, hygiene products, and antigen test kits.

Amid modular and blended learning during the pandemic, 12 schools received P1.2 million worth of school items, including headphones and microphones, to help teachers transition to online distance learning set-up.

The Back-to-School Donation Drive was an extension of MPower's flagship Kinder Classroom Project which started in 2015 in support of the Department of Education's requirement to include kindergarten in a child's formal schooling.

Since the inception of the Kindergarten Classroom Project, MPower has already turned over nine kindergarten classrooms to beneficiary schools with the help of donations from partners worth around P6 million.

The beneficiary schools are Lagundi Elementary School in Plaridel, Bulacan; Malabon Elementary School in Malabon; San Antonio Elementary School in San Pedro, Laguna; Dela Paz Main Elementary School in Biñan, Laguna; and Halang Elementary School in Naic, Cavite.