MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur (PIA)—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)