Ana Zenaida Unte, assistant schools superintendent for Marawi City, said pupils in the four schools were initially supplied last Tuesday with “halal” food prepared by teachers and volunteers. "It was an expansion of our current feeding program for school children displaced by the trouble in Marawi," Unte said. Besides the feeding program, DepEd-ARMM has also been operating makeshift learning facilities for school children in safe areas outside of Marawi City, managed by teachers who are evacuees themselves. Magno on Friday said hundreds of school children from conflict-stricken barangays in Marawi City also joined last week’s Global Handwashing Day in Lanao del Sur. Marawi City is the capital of Lanao del Sur, which covers 39 towns.

Source: Philippine Star October 27, 2017 03:22 UTC