Oriental Peninsula

DEPED fetes program private partners

The Department of Education has recognized Citinickel for its valuable participation in the Adopt-a-School program, providing a computer laboratory and learning and technology equipment to San Isidro Elementary School in Narra, Palawan.

The Department of Education (DepEd) recently hosted a thanksgiving and recognition program for private sector stakeholders under the department’s Adopt A School project. The honorees have been responsive to the call of DepEd for partnership in the pursuit of promotion of accessible quality education. Among these feted is Citinickel Mines and Development Corporation, a mining company that has built a computer school and provided computers in Barangay San Isidro, Narra, Palawan. In photo, Education Secretary Armin Luistro (fourth from the left) awards Citinickel through its president Andy Pallera (second from the left) and witnessed by Undersecretary Francisco Varela, Atty. Brenda Jay Angeles- Mendoza of the Chamber of Mines, Undersec Rizalino Rivera.