We hate to call this the silver lining of illegal logging though.
“The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) recently turned over 200 armchairs made from ‘hot logs’ to the Pasong Tamo Elementary School in Quezon City,” reports Jeannette I. Andrade in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The chairs are products of 10 of the agency’s furniture manufacturing facilities. The report said that the initiative “is part of the multi-agency project launched in March 2011, aimed to put to good use illegal logs seized by authorities in the provinces.”
The reports explained that the PNoy Bayanihan Project “is a partnership among TESDA, the Department of Education (DepEd), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) to help ease the lack of chairs and other furniture in public schools nationwide.”
