IPs in Mindanao to get 605 new classrooms 

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The budget department releases P500 million for new classrooms in 18 provinces

NEW CLASSROOMS. Students from indigenous peoples' communities in Mindanao will get new classrooms this 2016. File photo by Rappler

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released P500 million ($10.71 million) for the construction of 605 classrooms for students from indigenous peoples’ (IP) communities in Mindanao.

The fund released to the Department of Education (DepEd) is for the implementation of the “Establishment of New Public Schools for Indigenous Peoples in Mindanao: Classroom Component” project, the DBM said in a statement Friday, May 27.

The education department proposed the project in December 2015, and the funds for it were charged against the contingent fund for 2015, as approved by President Benigno Aquino III early this month. (READ: Luistro: Don’t forget far-flung schools)

The new classrooms will be built on 251 sites in the following provinces:

Zamboanga del Sur Davao Oriental
Zamboanga del Norte Sarangani
Zamboanga Sibugay South Cotabato
Bukidnon Sultan Kudarat
Misamis Oriental North Cotabato
Lanao del Norte Agusan del Sur
Compostela Valley Surigao del Norte
Davao del Norte Surigao del Sur
Davao del Sur Agusan del Norte

For school year 2016-2017, these classrooms will cater to an estimated 19,622 students from the following IP groups:

Subanen Dibabawon
Sama-Bajau Mandaya
Higaonon Mansaka
Matigsalog Matigsalog
Manobo Tagakaolo
Talaandig Tagabawa/Bagobo
Tigwahanon Manobo-Dulangan
Umayamnon Tboli
Ata-Manobo Uvu Manobo
Bagobo Banwaon
Blaan Mamanwa
Diangan  

The new classrooms will be built on land in the beneficiaries’ ancestral domain. DepEd and IP groups will execute a contract of usufruct for the use of the land for educational purposes.

DepEd will employ members of the beneficiary communities to build the classrooms within the implementation framework of the social welfare department’s Kalahi-CIDSS National Community-Driven Development Program.

In building the classrooms, DBM said the design will be based on indigenous architecture instead of the standard design of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

Local materials will also be used during the construction of the classroom, which will each cost an average of P825,000 ($17,664.07) – lower than the P1.1 million ($23,552.09) cost of the standard DPWH design for a single story classroom with a toilet. Rappler.com

*US$1 = P46.71

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