Development for Peace in Sulu

Teachers and parents construct the new poultry house at the Jolo Agricultural High School. The school grounds were once a battle field.
Teachers, parents and members of the Department of Education clear and clean the field around the poultry house.
School officials show AAI Director, Al Santoli and AAI advisor Atty. Nabil Tan (in dark shirt) the new construction inside of the poultry house at the Jolo Agricultural High School.

The new water tank works!
DPIS - Model of Excellence - similar signs are in front of each of the model schools.

Before: Bakud elementary outdoor classroom in September, 2004.

Bakud Elementary.

Now: Bakud Elementary outdoor classroom transformed.

Students previously in outdoor classrooms are now inside.

New chalkboards made by local carpenters for the model schools.

Sulu High School students sitting in their new desks.

Community Service scholarship students from the Mindanao State University.

New elementary school Educational Television (ETV) teacher training.

Computer technicians from AAI partners - Ateneo Zamboanga and FITED - evaluate the computer lab at the Fisheries High School.

New equipment and supplies for the Fisheries High School has enabled teachers and students to become social based business entrepreneurs.

The Fisheries High School laboratory floods when it rains.

The Adult Literacy students whose classes are supported by AAI with a US Congress/USAID grant conducted under the Sulu Department of Education.
The Adult literacy students attend a planning session with Al Santoli at the Department of Education. The next phase of the program will be livelihood development.

Al Santoli and Atty. Nabil Tan with the Mohammed Tulawie Elementary School Band.

The Tulawie school band greets Al Santoli at the airport.

The Tulawie School Band invades the Philippine Presidential Palace in Manila. The Band won the regional championship and was provided a trip to the capital to compete in the National Championships. It was the students' first time in Manila.

The Tulawie School Band members get a treat at McDonalds in Manila.
Students at Mohammed Tulawie Elementary School play traditional Tausug music.

Joy in classrooms, through the collaboration of teachers, parents and the AAI at Bakud Elementary, a DPIS Model School.
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