Boy Abunda turns over a Silid Pangarap school building

By NINFA B. QUIRANTE, PIA Borongan
August 5, 2011

BORONGAN City, Eastern Samar  –  Boy Abunda, well known celebrity and TV host personally visited his former barangay Campesao where he turned over kindergarten classrooms to DepEd officials.

Abunda who represented presidential sister Pinky Abellada, chairman of the Aklat Gabay, Aruga tungo sa Pag-angat  at Pag-asa (AGAPP) was in high spirits as he inspired the pupils to –dream big and the teachers and parents to support .

In his speech, Boy said he has surpassed many challenges because he never stopped learning.

“Waray ako, di ako umaatras,” the talk show host who is very close to the Aquinos narrated. He said that he has done researches and continues to study that, “A few years from now, I will finish my Doctorate in Human Development.”

Boy, according to former teachers excelled in school that he graduated Valedictorian in high school at the Seminario de Jesus Nazareno.

Aside from the school building, Boy also donated close to two hundred thousand pesos for the school’s rondalla.

Jun Nilo Dulfo, principal of the Campesao Elementary School said they have to rename the school to Eugenio Abunda Elementary School in honor of Boy’s father who donated the school lot.

Ma’am Licerna Abunda, Boy’s Nanay Lesing also taught in the same school for 43 years.

And these days, Boy is pouring in some donations like books, training fund for teachers and an endless list of support to the school.

Boy narrated that he studied in Ateneo and shared that while his classmates took their break in Paris or other nations, he chose to return to Samar every chance he gets. “I will always be a Boronganon by heart,” he told the crowd composed of senior citizens, most of whom were his mother’s co-teachers.