PRESS RELEASE ( Jemin B. Guillermo-PIA/Capiz)
“I can see from time to time my twin daughters who will be kinder pupils this opening of classes while I am also performing my job in my office.”
Police Officer 2 Van Frofunga, a father of three girls, expressed excitement on the realization of the Day Care Center of the Capiz Police Provincial Office inside Camp Apil in Lanot, Roxas City.
His twin daughters, Adriel and Sophie who are four years old, are currently enrolled at the barangay Lanot Child Development Center, commonly called Day Care Center. Their boarding house is about a kilometer away from the Center, hence, his children and a nanny have to take a tricycle daily.
“I am spending P60.00 per day for the transportation expenses of my twin daughters for going to school and back home,” PO2 Frofunga, who is assigned at the Capiz Police Provincial Office as Deputy Information Officer, said.
He said when the Day Care Center at the Capiz PPO compound will start operations this opening of classes, his other daughter who is two years old will also join her two older twin sisters in attending the day care classes.
“With the opening of the Center at the Camp, I can be together with my three children in going to my work and going home after school. I will not also worry about them while I’m at work,” Frofunga said.
Aside from him, other police officers and non-uniformed personnel are also eager to have their young children be enrolled in the Day Care Center at the Camp.
In February 26, 2019, Police Regional Office-6 Women’s Club president Rosalinda Bulalacao, the wife of PRO-6 Regional Director John Bulalacao, graced the groundbreaking ceremony of the Capiz PPO Day Care Center.
Bulalacao lauded Capiz PPO Director Canilo Fuentes for spearheading the child development center, which is the first to be built in a police provincial office in Western Visayas. She also pledged to help complete the project.
“This Center will benefit not only the PNP dependents but also other children nearby the camp,” she said, citing the importance of education as an equalizer especially in applying for a job.
As a partnership project of the PPO and the PNP Provincial Advisory Council for Transformation and Development, Fuentes, on the other hand, stressed that the Capiz PPO Daycare Center aims to provide the PNP personnel and the community a healthy environment.
“This facility will serve as breeding ground of young individuals for a strong foundation of quality education,” Fuentes said, expressing optimism to complete the Center in three months. (PIA/Capiz)
