School billets break borders, build ‘Palaro pathways’

This is an official release from the Davao del Norte Provincial government

DAVAO DEL NORTE, Philippines – Elementary and high school sites tapped to billet delegates to the Palarong Pambansa 2015 literally typified the theme of the national games: “Breaking Borders, Building Peace”.

‘Palaro pathways’ now connect the adjoining elementary and high school campuses, which were previously separated by sturdy concrete walls and fences.

Governor Rodolfo del Rosario was elated to see the schools broke down a portion of their fences to connect their campuses.

“Our billeting quarters exemplified our theme in the literal sense when bordering elementary and high schools opened their fences to connect their campuses,” he noted.

The governor made rounds in schools used as billeting areas for the delegates, in order to ensure first-rate hosting of the country’s biggest sporting event on May 3-9.

Most of the adjoining campuses were separated by sturdy concrete walls and fences that establish school territories and promote student safety.

The fence make it easy for administrators to easily keep watch over the property and monitor the flow of individuals entering and coming out of the campus.

However, the barriers will give some inconvenience to the delegates trying to get to their fellows from the same region who were housed in the adjoining site.

The governor said the opening in the fences now makes it easier for the officials and delegates to breeze through the borders of the billeting quarters of the Palaro.

Davao del Norte is hosting the 2015 edition of the country’s largest school-based games supported by the Tagum Agricultural Development Company Inc. or TADECO, Damosa Land, Davao Packaging Corporation (DPC), Davao International Container Terminal, Inc. (DICT) and Pearl Farm Beach Resort.

Virginia Maningo, Principal of La Filipina National High School praised the building of the ‘Palaro pathway’ linking her campus to the adjacent La Filipina Elementary School.

“The passageway now results to a better collaboration of issues of mutual interest among the two schools,” she said.

Aside from easier access, she added, the new link nurtures human connection among the teachers and students from the two schools, which, she said, is the essence of a sense of community among the two educational institutions.

However, she is quick to add that they will impose some access control in the passageway when the school year opens in June to ensure safety of the students. – Rappler.com