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A visit here and a relief mission there does not give justice to the Mindanao vote — if all of that is a mere tactic bent on widening the political divide

We’ll accept any help…we need everything, Gerlita Wata told our reporters John Sitchon and Jelo Mantaring who spent a week in Sarangani, which was worst hit by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted many parts of Mindanao on June 8. It’s been two weeks since, and students in the province have yet to go back to school. Here’s how to help.

The principal of an elementary school, Gerlita showed us her makeshift office that contained what they were able to retrieve from the school. It’s not much; their sole printer was broken. Over a hundred schools in the province alone suffered from major damage. Here’s a situationer.

The earthquake shook an already fragile public school system and rattled a government infrastructure roadmap already wounded by a massive corruption scandal.