The 60 pre-schoolers of the Antipuluan Elementary School in Bago City will no longer have to use musty dilapidated classrooms with roofs about to cave in and rickety desks that could give them splinters.

That is because Aklat Gabay at Aruga Tungo sa Pag-Angat at Pag-asa Foundation, chaired by presidential sister, Pinky Aquino Abellada, turned over a fully furnished two-room preschool building cum library complete with books and learning materials to the Antipulan school yesterday.

Abellada turned over the P700,000 preschool building funded by the San Miguel Corp. to the Antipuluan Elementary School in the morning and another one at the  Crispino V. Ramos Elementary School in Bacolod City  funded by Dr. Vicki  Belo’s Ike and Nena Belo Foundation  in the afternoon, which  were built under the supervision of  the Negrense Volunteers for Change.

“My father believes in teaching people how to fish rather than giving them fish. He always told me not to give money, give an education that will last a lifetime,” celebrity cosmetic surgeon Vicki Belo said yesterday.

Belo was in Bacolod for the turnover of a two-room preschool building, funded by her Ike and Nena Belo Foundation, to the Crispino V. Ramos Elementary School.

She made the donation through Aklat Gabay at Aruga Tungo sa Pag-Angat at Pag-asa Foundation chaired by presidential sister Pinky Aquino-Abellada.

A visit by President Benigno Aquino to Negros Occidental to meet with the business community is in the works, his sister, Pinky Aquino-Abellada, said yesterday.

Abellada, who was in Negros for the turnover of preschool buildings from her Aklat Gabay at Aruga Tungo sa Pag-Angat at Pag-asa Foundation, said the visit of the president is being readied but she does not know yet when it will be.

She said the president was not really scheduled to come to Bacolod for the football match between the Philippine Azkals and the Mongolian national team on Wednesday.