Mandaue City to provide free school supplies for all public school students in 2025

Mary Rose S. Sagarino 09/19/2024

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — All public school students in Mandaue City will receive free school supplies from the city government next year. City Treasurer Atty. Regal Oliva, during the “Storya Ta! A Move to Good Governance and…

School supplies: DTI Cebu monitors prices as classes draw near

Niña Mae C. Oliverio 07/23/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines — With only a few days before the classes for the School Year 2024-2025 starts, the Department of Trade and Industry here has already been monitoring the prices of the school supplies. Ines Cajegas,…

DSWD-7 receives 38,000 online applications for educational assistance in less than 24 hours

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/13/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) received about 38,000 online applications for educational assistance, in less than 24 hours since the regional agency reopened the online application for…

DSWD-7 releases over P21 million in educational assistance last Sept. 3

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 09/07/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Visayas (DSWD-7) provided educational assistance to a total of 7,665 students during its third payout last September 3, 2022. In a statement, the agency…

High prices of school supplies has parents changing buying habits

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 08/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The rising cost of school supplies has some parents adjusting their buying habits. Instead of buying a dozen notebooks at once for her daughter, who is in high school, Marrisa Cagnaan, 48, chose…

Under new normal in learning, school supply stores are also affected 

Mary Rose Sagarino 10/01/2020

Mandaue City, Cebu— Bergie Estoy, a manager of a noted school supply store here, remembers how, in previous years, sales bloomed months before classes even started.  But 2020, as we all know by now, turned out to…

Cebuano nurse in Las Vegas sends school supplies to pupils in Cebu City mountain brgy

Raul Constantine L. Tabanao 06/09/2020

MOALBOAL, Cebu —Lan Alyxandre Cabatingan bought school supplies which he planned to give out to children in one of the public elementary schools in Cebu City before he left for Las Vegas on January 21. But his…

Gwen wants SEF spent on textbooks instead of ukuleles, lab equipment

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has asked the Department of Education (DepEd) to prioritize the purchase of educational materials such as textbooks that will help improve in teaching English as a medium of instruction in…

Lear Corp donates school supplies to over 800 pupils of Sabang ES in Olango Island

PR 12/15/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – As part of its annual community outreach program, Lear Corporation recently provided educational assistance worth P1.3 million to pupils of the Sabang Elementary School (SES) in Olango Island. The managers and employees distributed…

HTLand gives back-to-school kits to 270 kids

PR 07/09/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines – A total of 270 primary school pupils in Mandaue City became the beneficiaries of HTLand, Inc.’s back-to-school initiative as academic year 2019-2020 started in June 2019. HTLand is the joint venture of internationally-listed…

Last-minute school supply shoppers flock Cebu City’s bazaars

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/02/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Last minute back to school shoppers filled the bazaars in downtown Cebu City on Sunday, June 2, a day before the start of classes in public schools on June 3. Several parents and…

No movement in prices of school supplies so far, says DTI

Futch Anthony Inso 05/23/2019

Cebu City, Philippines—The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Cebu has not observed any movement on the prices of school supplies, more that a week before classes for school year 2019-2020 start on June 3, 2019. “More…

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