Tan Yan Kee Foundation Trustee Ms. Tan Hui Bin ceremonially hands over an Educational Television Package to Mayor Carlito Abadilla of Banna, Ilocos Norte.
A total of five (5) Educational Television Infrastructure Packages (ETVs) were donated to public schools in Banna, Ilocos Norte, a fourth-class municipality that thrives mostly on agriculture.
During a turnover ceremony, Tan Yan Kee Foundation Trustee Tan Hui Bin personally handed over the ETV’s to Mayor Carlito Abadilla and the school heads of Bomitog, Bangsar, Banna Central, Crispina, and Valdez Elementary Schools.
 Reinforcing the partnership for ETV. From left, Nerissa Flores—Vice President of Pan Asia Securities, Juanita Tan Lee and Harry Tan, Corporate Secretary and Vice Chairman of TYKFI respectively, Ma. Regina Lopez—Managing Director of ABS-CBN Foundation, Wilson Young—Project Director of TYKFI and Tanduay Distillers Chief Operating Officer, and Zen Dimalanta—ABS-CBN Foundation E-Media Director. | ABS-CBN Foundation E-Media Director Zen Dimalanta was also on hand, while she shared that ETV learning brings lessons to full living color and thus makes studying a fun experience for the pupils. DepEd District Supervisor Jovencio Agoy, on the other hand, is thankful for the donations and says that it is the fulfillment of the district’s educational dreams and that such will but accelerate the process of learning. He also personally assured that the ETV’s will be fully utilized for the educational development of school children. An ETV package, a highly entertaining and engaging alternative to learning your typical academic subjects, is comprised of a television, a DVD player, and 108 volumes of the TV shows Hiraya Manawari (Values), Bayani (History), Epol-Apol (English), Math-inik (Mathematics), and Sine-skwela (Science); it also comes with a teachers’ lesson guide. |