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PGMA presides over start of construction of P4.2-M school building for Muslim children
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008
DAVAO CITY – The entire population of Barangay Sirawan in Toril District here practically turned out for the brief visit to the Sirawan Elementary School of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo this morning.
The President motored to this seaside district to lower the time capsule that kicked off the construction of a much-needed school building for Muslim pupils belonging to the Kalagan tribe. She is the first Philippine Chief Executive to reach this “far, far” area of Davao City.
The President’s 20-vehicle convoy – with two helicopters hovering by along both sides of the highway -- took some 30 minutes to reach the outskirts area some 20 kilometers to the south of the city proper.
The Muslim elementary pupils, numbering 403, were joined by the high school students and their parents and community in converging at the school grounds where a lively program of Muslim dances was prepared for the visiting Chief Executive.
The President proceeded to the site after her arrival at past 10 a.m. at the Davao International Airport where she was met by Davao City OIC Mayor Myrna Dalodo-Ortiz, Davao City Reps. Vincent Garcia (2nd District) and Isidro Ungab (3nd District), Philippine National Police regional director Chief Supt. Andres Caro III, AFP East Mindanao Command’s Lt. Gen. Cardozo Luna and other Mindanao officials.
At the schoolsite some 20 kilometers from the airport via the Davao Diversion Road, President Arroyo was cheered by the Muslim schoolchildren who gifted her with a Muslim “sablay” handed to her by a Grade I pupil.
Female students of the Sirawan High School came dressed as Muslim princesses to act as the President’s “ladies-in-waiting.”
The President lowered the time capsule for the two-storey, four-classroom school building of the Sirawan Beach Elementary School by slicing off with the Muslim sword "kris" the colorful twisted bandana that served as the rope tied to the golden time capsule.
The project that costs P4.2 million will benefit the 403 Grade I to Grade VI pupils, 99 percent of whom are Muslims.
The school -- which is some one-and-a-half kilometers away from the national highway -- has 10 teachers, seven of them Muslims.
The 403 pupils – who are distributed at one to two sections per grade level – are presently holding classes in six “standard” classrooms, three Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) rooms; and one makeshift/tent covered classroom.
With the President in the groundbreaking ceremonies were local and Department of Education (DepEd) officials who briefed her about the school and other projects of the education department in the area.
In gratitude for the quick response of the national government to their school’s urgent need for an additional school building, the pupils performed a ritual dance of thanksgiving for President Arroyo.
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