DepEd starts assessment of Marawi schools

TWO days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City liberated from the terrorist Maute group, the Education department has begun its rehabilitation assessment efforts to determine the extent of damage to school buildings.

“We’re now conducting post-conflict needs assessment in Marawi City and in areas outside ground zero. We will be assessing the damage and loss, covering infrastructure and non-infrastructure,” Ronilda Co, head of DepEd’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service, said in a text interview on Wednesday.