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COTABATO CITY — As part of the implementation of the Project Improve Quality Education in the Bangsamoro Land (IQBAL), the Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) headed by Minister Mohagher M. Iqbal has distributed various supplies to the divisions of schools of Cotabato City and Maguindanao del Sur.
These supplies include 2,301 Learners’ Kits, 89 Teachers’ Kits, 140 sets of educational charts, 140 sets of flashcards, 37 sets of manipulative toys, and 20 boxes of McDonald’s toys.
The recipient schools are the following:
1. Abdulazis ES
2. Angoyao CES
3. Banga PS
4. Basak ES
5. Campo ES
6. Campo NHS
7. Damakling ES
8. Datu Conte ES
9. Kakal ES
10. Langkuno ES
11. Paglat CES
12. Paglat NHS
13. Sero ES
14. Tual ES
15. Upper Iditig ES
The Ministry ensures that all schools divisions are entitled to receive equipment and materials and will be delivered to them by schedule.
Established in 2018 by the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) to implement the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the Bangsamoro region 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. With the recent plebiscite at SGA, the BARMM now has eight new municipalities as residents voted “Yes”.
According to the Philippine Atlas BARMM has 4,404,288 people. It has 116 municipalities (plus eight newly established under the SGA: 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. (✓)