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DepEd calls for desk donations for displaced Marawi studes


The Department of Education (DepEd) has called on big private companies to donate school desks for students displaced by the on-going clashes in Marawi City.
Education Secretary Leonor Briones said they have established learning spaces in evacuation centers through the help of the United Nations (UN) and other donors, but they need desks to facilitate comfortable learning among children-evacuees.
She admitted it would take time to purchase school desks under the government procurement procedures.
Briones also disclosed that DepEd is preparing for the Brigada Eskwela Para sa Marawi. She said they have chosen a school where they would gather resources and materials for the repair of affected schools in Marawi.
According to her, six schools in Marawi and nearby areas were destroyed, three were razed while the other three damaged by crossfire.
The Education Secretary meanwhile assured affected teachers that they will continue to receive salaries while school opening in Marawi is still on hold stressing that the crisis is not their own making. She said the Philippine Public School Teachers Association will also offer loans in ‘very generous terms.’
Displaced teachers will also be given psychosocial assistance to help them re-establish sense of normalcy. “They have to deal with the trauma.., they can only help the school children if they themselves are also helped,” she said.

While waiting for the go signal from military authorities, Briones further urged parent-evacuees to send their children to the nearest school so that their studies will not be interrupted. She reiterated that DepEd has waived the usual documentary requirements to give leeway to displaced children to go to school. 

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