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2 Saipan groups to build four classrooms in the Philippines
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Posted on Jan 26 2009
Two Filipino groups on Saipan have raised $16,000 to build four new classrooms in the Philippines to help address the classroom shortage in the country.
This brings to 15 the total number of classrooms sponsored and built by the Filipino community and other entities in the CNMI under the Philippine government project “Classrooms from Workers Abroad.”
In elementary and secondary public schools with critical shortage of classrooms in the Philippines, students hold classes in makeshift classrooms, on stairways, grass lawns and even under the trees. They also have to share one room with up to 200 other students.
Wilfredo DL. Maximo, Philippine Consul General in the CNMI, received yesterday the donations from the Saipan Simbang Gabi Group led by chair Rene Atienza and Filipino Community Foundation CNMI led by its president, Maribel Loste.
“We are truly appreciative of the generous gestures of the Filipino Community Foundation and the Saipan Simbang Gabi Group. These donations are worthy investments for the future of our children in the Philippines because this will mean better classrooms that would provide them with a more conducive learning environment,” Maximo told Saipan Tribune.
Nine of the 15 new classrooms are already built, while the construction of two classrooms will soon be completed. The four other classrooms funded by the two Saipan groups will be built within the year.
The Filipino Community Foundation will be building two rooms at Sara National High School in Sara, Iloilo.
The Saipan Simbang Gabi Group will be building two rooms in Misamis Oriental, in addition to one it built earlier at Lalawigan Elementary School in Borongan, Eastern Samar. Another classroom construction it funded, located at Labnig Elementary School in Malinao, Albay, will soon be completed.
