Bataan Aeta villagers welcome onsite classes

ABUCAY, Bataan: Indigenous Peoples on Monday welcomed the opening of face-to-face (F2F) classes in an Aeta upland village here, saying it is more beneficial to pupils and parents, especially to some residents who do not know how to read and write.

Rosalie Joy Maaño, officer in charge of the Bangkal resettlement Elementary School in Abucay, said they have 154 school children, 80 percent belonging to the Magbukun Tribe, from the present in-classes from kindergarten to Grade 3.