SIX schools in Cotabato City have received laboratory apparatus worth P600,000 from the Ministry of Science and Technology in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

These are the Cotabato City National High School Main Campus, CCNHS Rojas-Site Campus, Cotabato State University-Laboratory High School, Coland System Technology, Inc., Shariff Kabunsuan College, and Dr. P. Ocampo College.

MOST Minister Engineer Aida Silongan said that the initiative was part of their flagship program to assist students and teachers in the region by providing equipment and capacity building for the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program.

“This endeavor is a continuous effort to support students and teachers, especially those in the remote areas, with less equipment and capacity. It is our way of supporting the science education system, so we can produce numerous S&T human resources that would help in the socio-economic development and a progressive Bangsamoro region,” Silongan said.

“This year, we will be completing the turn-over of laboratory apparatus, amounting to P3 million, to 30 schools in the region. We will continue to provide more laboratory apparatus across the region in the coming years,” she added.

Silongan said that schools in Special Geographic Areas in the region will also receive laboratory equipment.

CCNHS Rojas-Site principal Cecilia Omar thanked MOST-BARMM for selecting their school as a recipient of the program.

“Indeed, BARMM’s generosity that reached us has added to our confidence in addressing the learning loss brought about by the two-year health crisis,” Omar said.

“This gives us support for a good start which will surely inspire not only the learners but also the teachers in the achievement of quality education which we have been striving for,” she added.