June 2006

June 2006

Development for Peace in Sulu

	Excitement at Don Jose Godinez Elementary School on arrival of Asia America Initiative team to distribute text books and plan new school year on second day of new classes.
	AAI Director, Al Santoli is greeted by children in courtyard of Godinez Elementary, the newest AAI Model of Excellence public school.
	AAI Program Coordinator, Ms. Rohaniza Sumndad, meets with Godinez Elementary students at medicines and textbook distribution festivities.
	Typical overcrowded classroom at Sheikh Mustafa Elementary made brighter by AAI distribution of chairs and tables made by local carpenters under AAI supervision.
	First grade teacher at Sheikh Mustafa Elementary leads first graders in a song.
	The 'A, B, C's' song performed by first graders at Sheikh Mustafa Elementary.
	Students and teachers at Tanjung Elementary do believe in magic, under wall mural painted by parents in PTA.
	DPIS partnership in action: Classroom at Tanjung Elementary with chairs and green boards provided by AAI and painting and decoration of walls by teachers and parents.
	New Library at Tanjung Elementary with books and globes provided by AAI and Manila-based NGO partners.
	The role of education in community building stated on wall of Bakud Elementary library.
	Students at Bakud elementary greet Director Santoli.
	A pre-DPIS Model of Excellence rural school, with bamboo walls, leaky roof and mud floor.
	Bamboo school building at Kampaung Elementary made brighter with table-top chairs, wall posters and chalk boards provided by AAI.
	Overcrowded classroom in stifling heat and humidity at Kampaung Elementary.
	Renovated classroom at Kasambuhan Elementary, the first Peace Zone school in Indanan District, an area of conflict.
	New computers provided by AAI to Peace Zone school, Kasambuhan Elementary.
	AAI distributes medicines to school clinic at Mohammad Tulawie Elementary.
	The operating room Sulu Provincial Hospital in 2003, where surgery was routinely performed without anesthetic or other pain killers.
	Operating room at Sulu Provincial Hospital today, which was renovated through a grant from the World Bank.
	Some of the midwives at the Sulu Provincial Hospital whose expenses are covered by AAI. Sulu has the infant mortality rate in the Philippines.
	Director Santoli and the senior scholar at the Islamic Library in Jolo, where AAI has assisted in providing chairs and reading tables.
	Smiling faces are the gauge of progress at Don Jose Godinez Elelmentary, AAI’s newest Model of Excellence school.

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