17,300 school children in Tanauan and Tolosa receive school supplies from Korean NGO

TANAUAN, Leyte, February 4 (PIA) – Some 17,300 school children from Tanauan and Tolosa towns in Leyte will receive knap sacks full of school supplies from a Korean NGO called the Korea Food for the Hungry International, one of the many humanitarian organizations now in Eastern Visayas, on February 4, Tuesday.

The distribution in Tolosa will start at 10:00 o’clock in the morning of February 4 and will cover 15 schools.

Meanwhile, the distribution in Tanauan will start at 1:00 o’clock in the afternoon and will cover 45 schools.

Dr. Sang Rok Suh of KFHI told the Philippine Information Agency that although many schools reopened on January 6, classes are disrupted by the lack of school supplies.

“So we will bring the school supplies from Manila urgently,” Dr. Sang said, as he underscore that the school supplies will be distributed to school children from Kindergarten to Elementary up to High School levels.

Dr. Sang who was also in the Region during the Guinsaugon tragedy in 2006, intimated that the school supplies to be distributed amounted to P6.92 million.

“We will put pencils, ballpens, erasers, crayons, art materials, color papers, notebooks, among others in the knap sack,” he said.

For this effort, Korean missionaries, Christians, and church members, with an overall number of 500 were engaged in packing the school supplies, worked for two days in the army headquarter gym located in Manila and the packages were transported to Tolosa and Tanauan through Filipino military vehicles.

”We don’t want to boast about this effort. We just want the residents in Yolanda hit-Leyte that there are many countries in the world that would like to help, so they must not lose hope.

Dr. Sang said KFHI arrived in Leyte 4 days after the typhoon Yolanda and conducted emergency relief food supply activities, health care¸ epidemics prevention and tent distribution.

“Now, we are on a long-term project which focuses on rebuilding schools and churches,” Dr. Sang said. (PIA 8)