Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa and Magallanes, Sorsogon Municipal Mayor Augusto Ragragio signed the grant contract for “The Project for the Construction of Community Learning Center in the Municipality of Magallanes, Sorsogon” on March 17. The total grant amount is $98,776 (or approximately P4.1 million) and is funded under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP).

Municipality of Magallanes currently faces challenges related to the high incidence of drop-outs and out-of-school children, the main reasons of which are greatly attributed to the high cost of education and poverty. To resolve this issue, the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Magallanes tries to implement an educational program called Alternative Learning System (ALS).

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