{"id":274540,"date":"2020-11-08T05:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=274540"},"modified":"2020-11-08T05:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T10:06:39","slug":"nograles-wants-yolanda-resettlement-sites-closer-to-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/08\/nograles-wants-yolanda-resettlement-sites-closer-to-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Nograles wants &#8216;Yolanda&#8217; resettlement sites closer to schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251999\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nograles-april-12.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251999\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nograles-april-12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nograles-april-12.png 587w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/nograles-april-12-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nograles, who heads Task Force Yolanda, said he raised the matter before Education Secretary Leonor Briones, who was \u201cwilling to consider\u201d his proposal. (PIA NCR File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Resettlement sites should have schools close by so that students don\u2019t have to walk too far to have access to basic education, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nograles, who heads Task Force Yolanda, said he raised the matter before Education Secretary Leonor Briones, who was \u201cwilling to consider\u201d his proposal.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKawawa kasi ang mga bata kung malayo ang mga komunidad na ito sa mga paaralan<\/em>\u00a0(It\u2019s pitiful if students had to walk too far to get to school). So it&#8217;s good that the [Department of Education] has this Last Mile Schools Program, wherein they work to provide geographically isolated, disadvantaged, and conflict-affected (GIDCA) areas with access to basic education,\u201d Nograles said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Last Mile Schools are schools that have multi-grade classes, with less than \ufb01ve teachers, and a student population of less than 100 learners, more than 75 percent of which are usually indigenous people.<\/p>\n<p>He said he also reached out to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Department of Health (DOH) to put up day care and health centers in resettlement sites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot just stop with building their houses; we have to make sure that these displaced families also have access to basic necessities: schools, day care centers, health centers.\u00a0<em>Naiintindihan naman nina<\/em>\u00a0[DWSD] Sec. Bautista at [DOH] Sec. Duque ito (Sec. Bautista and Sec. Duque understood this concern), and they said their agencies will be helping out in this regard,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nograles said it is important to make sure that resettlement sites are not just built, they should also allow families to \u201cthrive, not just survive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to do more than rebuild their homes &#8212; we want to help the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda rebuild their lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the importance of bringing education and livelihood closer to ensure that communities live and work successfully.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that livelihood and education would be concerns that need to be factored in to ensure the long-term viability of these relocation sites,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Resettlement sites should have schools close by so that students don\u2019t have to walk too far to have access &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":251999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274542,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274540\/revisions\/274542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}