SM Prime and Ayala Land have donated a new school building to Sta. Barbara Central Elementary School in Zamboanga City, replacing facilities destroyed during the 2013 Zamboanga siege.
SM Prime and Ayala Land turned over on Dec. 18 a newly built two-story school building to Sta. Barbara Central Elementary School in Zamboanga City, which was heavily ravaged during the Zamboanga siege in 2013. School principal Anna Liza Martin says that none of the three multi-story school buildings of Sta. Barbara Central School survived the attacks as all of them were rendered unusable after the siege.
As the campus fell under the control of the insurgents who barricaded themselves inside the classrooms, all school facilities were either completely demolished or considered dangerous to use for everyday classes. Aside from the classrooms, Martin says that all their learners lost considerable school hours, added with the stress and pressure of having to relocate to neighboring schools just to catch up.Head teacher Alice Yusop, who was present during the attacks, says that even when neighboring campuses have hosted their learners, the shortage of teachers and facilities in other schools in the surrounding communities hindered their learners from receiving quality education. “Six of us teachers had to follow them there so that we can teach them because those schools can barely accommodate them and we did not want them to lose any more school days,” Yusop says. But the Zamboanga siege not only affected the learners’ school days, but their mental well-being, as well, according to the teacher. “I remember one specific instance when, in one of our makeshift classrooms in a host campus, there was an explosion, but it was just an electric fuse box. I remember how the learners ran scared and crying. That was the toll on them. It was not only about losing school days, but it was also about their mental health,” she says.Going back to the campus after the month-long attacks, they found almost nothing to build from and the memories of the attacks scattered all around them.
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