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COTABATO CITY — More school buildings are being turned over by the Bangsamoro government to various schools in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
This is being implemented by the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) under the leadership of Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal.
The Ministry’s Education Facilities Section (EFS) recently conducted seven turnover ceremonies amounting to 𝐏𝟐𝟐,𝟏𝟓𝟑,𝟑𝟑𝟑.𝟑𝟔 for school building projects in the divisions of Sulu, Maguindanao Del Sur, Maguindanao Del Norte, and Special Geographic Area (SGA).
These projects include four units of 1-storey with 1-classroom school building project, three units of 1-storey with 2-classroom building project, and a handwashing facility.
Funded under the 2021 Transitional Development Impact Fund (TDIF), 1-storey with 1-classroom school building projects were constructed at:
1. Mahad Darul Ahli Al-Ijtima’, Inc. ES
2. Madrasatu Hissattul Jareed Al-Islamie, Inc.
3. Madrasah Mentok Al-Islamiyah, Inc
4. Sapakan ES (with handwashing facility)
Meanwhile, 1-storey with 2-classroom school building projects funded under the Special Development Impact Fund were constructed at:
1. Lahnagan ES
2. Madia ES
3. Tinindanan ES
The Bangsamoro region, established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), is made up of the provinces of Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Sur, Maguindanao del Norte, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi, the cities of Cotabato, Lamitan, and Marawi, as well as the Special Geographic Area’s (SGA) 63 barangays or villages that voted “Yes” in a plebiscite in February 2019 to be under the BARMM jurisdiction.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities: Basilan, 11 municipalities; Lanao del Sur, 39; undivided Maguindanao, 36; Sulu, 19; and Tawi-Tawi, 11. Its component cities are Cotabato (the regional center and capital) in Maguindanao; Lamitan in Basilan; and Marawi in Lanao del Sur. (✓)