Daily Success Story of Brigada Eskwela 2023

Day 1- August 14, 2023 Monday

Simultaneously, Buenavista-Cigaras Elementary School holds its School-based kick-off
ceremony of Brigada Eskwela 2023 with the District Kick-off on Buenavista Integrated National High
School.
The first day started with the cleaning of Luna Building, Teresita Building and Carino
Building (School Canteen). The first day was filled with 282 volunteers. These volunteers also did
weed of each garden. Cleaning of the pathways, pruning and removing of tall grasses and
plants were done by twenty-five (25) Barangay Buenavista 4Ps members.
In the afternoon 6 volunteers from Bureau of Fire Prevention department came to help
in trimming the trees’ branches in the school they were headed by FO3 Jessa D. Sapiter
together with SF01 Brayan Banatlao and SF01 Edrick Randel Arocena. He leaded the
cleaning of the remaining outside garden and the removal of crawling vines in the pence. The
volunteers of today’s activity were also BCES parents and guardians with a total of two
hundred twenty-three (223) and all in all the volunteers were two hundred eighty two (282)
volunteers for today’s Brigada Eskwela.

Day 2 – August 15, 2023 Tuesday

The second day of the BE 2023 had a jumpstart activity coming from the Social
Livelihood Office (SLO) of the provincial governor’s office headed by then former school
principal of BCES and former mayor of Magdalena municipal Mrs. Nieva S. Reodica with
her team that offered seminars on creating opportunities for the parents/guardians.
The SLO also offered a seminar workshop to give work opportunities at home – the
seminar includes dishwashing making, fabric conditioning making and basahan making. The
SLO hopes to provide opportunities to parents/ guardians to earn money at the comfort of
their homes.
The total numbers of participants for today’s school maintenance activity which
cleaned the following main building (Multi-purpose building, 3Ps Building, HE/SPED
building and the 2021 School Building *Maam Zy) were composed of participants from
parents and guardians of 261, 7 alumni, forty-eight private individuals and organizations, 10
provincial officers/employees, 6 barangay officials, and 19 other volunteers with a total three
hundred fifty six (356) volunteers.
Day 3 – August 16, 2023 Wednesday
The third day of BE2023 started again with the clean up of the surroundings of the
school, including the clearing of the garden beside the principal’s office with the fifty-four
(54) members of the 4Ps of Barangay Cigaras and one hundred fifty-nine (159) parents and
guardian help one another to clean the Gulayan sa Paaralan near the Department of Public
Works and Highway (DPWH) Building, the cleaning in Filipino and Pagsikat Garden were
facilitated Samahan ng Natibidad ni Maria spearheaded by Mrs. Christine Lao-Criste – the
youth and/or youth serving church organization with 12 members made sure to clean the
surroundings of the Pagsikat Garden.
 After cleaning the garden, the SNM volunteers prepared rice porridge which were
then distributed to National Learning Camp pupils. There were 106 CRLA beneficiaries and
86 RMA pupils who benefited from this activity.
Today’s volunteers were composed of two-hundred-thirty-six parents/guardians, five
alumni, 62 private individuals and organizations, 12 members of religious groups, eight
barangay officials with 6 SK members with, and 22 other volunteers with a total of three-
hundred sixty-four (364) volunteers.
Day 4 – August 17, 2023 Thursday
Volunteers come together in different places, organizations and institutions to help the
redeemed the readiness of the school for the upcoming limited face to face classes this
coming August 17, 2023. First on the list are the representatives of 4Ps Brgy. Cigaras they
help clean the facilities and the back parts of the school building.
There were six (6) representatives from NGO, two-hundred-thirty-one (231) from the
parents and twenty-eight (28) from the private sectors. All of these industrious and generous
volunteers went up cleaning all the remaining unclean parts of the HE Building and the
Make-shift buildings.
Another seminar was offered among the parents/guardians by the Provincial
Population Office which gave a helpful guide to responsible parenting – facilitated by Ms.
Arlene G. Mercado – head of provincial population office.
Simultaneously, Sir Jordan Jimenez, started cleaning the growing molds in the
pathways inside the school, these molds started growing as the rain started pouring heavily
for the past weeks. He started cleaning the path walk in front of the PAGSIKAT Garden and
ICT Building. Meanwhile group of youth from Brgy. Cigaras headed by Ms. Angelou Reyes
cleaned the remaining unattended dirt from Pagsikat and Filipino Garden.
Accumulated number of participants from today’s activity were three-hundred-eight
(308) volunteers, mostly participated by parents/guardians followed by private individuals
and organizations and lastly by pupils.

Day 5 – August 18, 2023 Friday

Tedious and united efforts continue on the last day of Brigada Eskwela in Buenavista-
Cigaras Elementary School, it started as the former barangay chairman of Brgy. Buenavista –
Mr. Efren Pili together with his group Highway Marshall Group continued clearing the
classrooms from 4Ps building and the Marcos Type building by bringing out armchairs and
desk outside for repainting. Consequently, a group of young men from Brgy. Buenavista
headed by Mr. Jericho Esquibel repainted desks and armchairs from the ICT Room.
Meanwhile some youth did polish the floor by applying floor wax.
Luckily, Lions Club Pintong Pilak chapter headed by its president Mrs. Hilda A.
Tapongot, came in with school supply donations, after which they hurdle down and join the
rest of the volunteers in the cleaning activity. Just in, Mrs. Lorna A. Virtucio – one of the
heads of Rural Bank of Magdalena came in as well, with school supply donations too.
Capping this year’s volunteers from Day 1 to 5, all in all BCES was participated by one-
thousand-seven-hundred-and -nineteen volunteers.
In the afternoon, Sir Jordan Jimenez continued cleaning the path walks and get rid of
the molds. Group of men from the parents continued cutting, pruning and trimming the
unwanted tree branches. Afterwards, the closing ceremony started and each of the committee
in the Brigada Eskwela were recognized by Dr. Bonifacio S. Togado – the school principal
along with this year’s BE Chairman Mr. Wilmer R. Lebria.

Day 6 – August 19, 2023 Saturday