Filipino communities in Lebanon, Brunei donate classrooms to Iloilo
Two Filipino communities in Lebanon and Brunei showed support to government’s effort to address classroom shortage in the country by donating two buildings to Iloilo Province under the Classroom Galing sa Mamamayan Abroad (CGMA) project.
The two buildings with two classrooms each were turned over recently to the Alimono Elementary School and Passi I Elementary School all in Passi City.
Each school building is worth P400, 000 or about US$ 4,000.
Amy Judicpa, Information Officer of the Department of Labor and Employment, said the latest donations came from the Bistang Filipino Lebanon and the Mary Lim and Guo Zhan Sheng, Brunei Darussalam with the Sugar Tripartite Council as their local counterpart.
As of July, Judicpa said a total of 18 two-classroom buildings were donated by Filipino communities to various areas in Western Visayas.
The CGMA program is a joint classroom project of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), and the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc (FFCCCII).
DOLE and DFA are responsible for sourcing out funds abroad while the DepEd identifies areas where the classroom building will be constructed.
FFCCCII is tasked to undertake the construction of the project.
(PNA)