TEN MOVES! HANDS OVER NEW SCHOOLBUILDING FOR SENDONG SURVIVORS

Student survivors of Typhoon Sendong have more reasons to rejoice. On Friday, May 24, 2013, officials and representatives from CLSA Chairman’s Trust and TEN Moves! formally handed over a two-storey, four classroom-building at Angelico J. Medina Memorial Elementary School, which serves the educational requirements of children in Barangay Sta. Elena, Iligan City. The newly completed school building with safe water system was happily welcomed by the school officials, faculty, students, and education and community officials of Barangay Sta. Elena.

Constructed through TEN Moves! (The Entire Nation Moves!), the school building project aims to assist Angelico J. Medina Memorial Elementary School to accommodate more students especially those affected by Typhoon Sendong. The project also seeks to enhance the learning condition of students who experienced physical and psychological trauma caused by the deluge.

As of February 2013, the Angelico J. Medina Memorial Elementary School already recorded an enrolment of 619 students, a significant increase from 399 students in 2011-2012, before Typhoon Sendong hit the area.

TEN Moves! is part of the Bayanihang Pampaaralan (BP) campaign, which aims to raise enough resources to build 10,000 classrooms in public schools nationwide. Its main strategy is to get 2 million people to donate P10 per day for 10 months.

Organizations part of the BP movement are: Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), League of Corporate Foundations (LCF), Children’s Hour, Eugenia Apostol Foundation (formerly Foundation for Worldwide People Power), Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) and Synergeia Foundation.

 

Published in Manila Times, page B7, 3 June 2013