Marawi SDS thanks EU for support in education delivery

Marawi City Schools Division Superintendent Anna Zenaida Unte Alonto conveys her gratitude to EU Head of Delegation to the Philippines Ambassador Luc Veron for helping them in the delivery of quality and protective education to Bangsamoro learners. (Micheal John Paclar / PIA Lanao del Sur)

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur —The City Schools Division Superintendent (SDS) here expressed her gratitude to the European Union (EU) for mobilizing support to help the Division in ensuring the delivery of quality and protective education.

SDS Anna Zenaida Unte Alonto conveyed her thanks to EU Head of Delegation to the Philippines Ambassador Luc Veron during his visit to the Sagonsongan Temporary Learning Shelter on Thursday, November 18.

She said that, for the past decades, Bangsamoro children are the most vulnerable to conflict and poverty that is why the Department of Education (DepEd) makes sure that the quality of education will not be curtailed even in the darkest face of terrorism or any other disaster that may affect their community.

But the delivery of quality and protective education, according to Unte, cannot be done by the DepEd alone as it needs the support and help of partners and donors.

"The entirety of the City Schools Division of Marawi would like to take this opportunity to express our immense gratitude that you have been helping us especially at the height of the siege and until this very moment," she said.

Unte recalled that the EU thru Save the Children Philippines (SCP) has been helping the City Schools Division since the time SCP set up the first temporary learning school spaces in Saguiaran Central Elementary School where displaced Marawi children sought refuge to continue their education.

She hopes that the EU along with its partners will continue to help the City Schools Division until the last child is transitioned to a Marawi permanent regular school. (APB/PIA Lanao del Sur)

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Project SiNDAO seen to boost quality educ, child protection

Ambassador of the European Union to the Philippines Luc Véron says that they prioritized supporting children affected by conflict.  

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur--Quality education and child protection here are seen to be improved through the Project SiNDAO: Protecting Learning in Conflict and Complex Emergencies in Mindanao funded by the European Union Humanitarian Aid or ECHO. 

The two-year project aims to contribute to improving the access to quality and protective education and children protection services of the most marginalized and vulnerable boys and girls affected by conflict, displacement, and pandemic crisis in Mindanao. 

Ambassador of the European Union to the Philippines Luc Véron said that they prioritized supporting children affected by conflict. 

"The priority is to support children affected by conflict in schools by providing access to safe quality and protective education both in formal and informal schools," he said. 

The ambassador also emphasized that keeping children in school will give them a better future. 

With Project SiNDAO, uninterrupted quality learning and protective opportunities will be provided for conflict-affected children through resilient education systems and school communities that are protective of children’s rights and the international human rights and humanitarian law.  

The interventions under this project are Education in Emergencies, Child Protection, and Disaster Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Response. 

This program benefits 28 municipalities and cities in 10 provinces in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Regions 10, 12, and 13 and implemented by Save the Children Philippines, CARE/ACCORD and Geneva Call. (LELA/ PIA Lanao del Sur)

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