Schools Division of Paranaque never misses celebrating the milestones, achievements, or accomplishments that directly or indirectly affect its services to the clients.

Attaining excellence requires hard work and deep commitment. It entails providing the employees with continual motivation and a work environment conducive to carrying out their duties and functions. It means being responsive and sensitive to the needs of the workforce who deliver the services with satisfaction.

It has been almost three years since the COVID-19 pandemic that, finally, the SDO organized a Thanksgiving Mass and Blessing to its newly renovated and newly occupied offices on November 14, 2022.

The homily of Fr. Kevin Luther Crisostomo focused on the six (6) letter Cs summarized in fingers to reflect on the responsibility of the teachers and the non-teaching personnel of the SDO referring to the SDO family.

The priest said that the smallest of the fingers symbolizes compassion to take care of the little, the least, the last, the lost, the lonely, and the losers. The ring finger is the culture which means to give importance to the values and the virtues with themselves as role models. The middle finger is the competence to mean being an expert in the delivery of services, whereas the index is conscience, which means to teach and serve what is right and wrong, or not to confuse right from wrong, to fear God and love fellowmen.

Here, the priest emphasized everyone to be formators of conscience with the thumb to mean the character that holds things together, while the whole hand symbolizes the SDO community armed with the complete fingers as they attend well to their clients: the school, teachers, learners, and other stakeholders.

Nevertheless, the priest encouraged everyone to give inspiration and light to learners as the sole reason for service.

The ribbon cutting and blessings of the SDO offices then followed right after the Mass with personnel present in their respective offices. (by Reena G. Orquina)