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Children from some 200 Muslim families displaced by attacks by US-trained Philippine military temporarily sheltered at Kasmbuhan Village Elementary school in Sulu, assisted by AAI with goods provided by Catholic college students based in Manila.
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Student dancers at Mohammad Tulawie Central School entertain classmates and parents at the 2007 Commencement and Recognition Day festivities.
Mohammad Tulawie finished First out of 93 elementary school in all categories of the Region's annual academic testing performance.
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AAI Director Al Santoli, hands Academic Excellence Award to the mother of a graduating 6th grade student at Mohammad Tulawie Central School.
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Graduating 6th grade Student Council representatives at Mohammad Tulawie Elementary School, which has a more than 99% promotion rate, compared to under 40 percent average in the region. Overall, AAI's Model of Excellence elementary and high schools average more than a 90% promotion and graduation rate.
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AAI team members Sheena Acero [left] and Rohaniza Sumndad [center] with representatives of Dole Fruit Company Philippines at inaugural for the "Peace-O" fund-raising project in Manila.
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AAI team with Tausug tribal folk dancers at Peace-O benefit inaugural in Manila.
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Tuasug tribal folk dancers perform at Peace-O inaugural.
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At "Play for Peace" battle of the bands benefit concert and contest for AAI in Manila, more than twenty bands performed.
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Refugee children sheltered at Kasambuhan Village Elementary in Sulu, happy to be assisted by AAI. The families had not had food delivered during week before AAI arrived in Jolo.
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AAI's Rohaniza Sumndad [with cap] oversees distribution of food to displaced persons at Kasambuhan School.
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Community leaders of displaced families at Kasambuhan pack relief bags of rice, cookies, powdered milk and canned fish donated by Manila college students through AAI.
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Singing group Awakening Echoes performs peace songs at the Sulu Regional Hospital.
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New [and first] library at Jolo National High School stocked with books provided by AAI, in partnership with Brother's Brother of Pittsburgh, PA, the US Camber of Commerce in Manila and the Bato Balani Foundation in the Philippines.
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A teacher at Bakud Elementary School in Jolo informally instructs students who asked him to teach about the Koran.
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AAI Community Service Scholarship students demonstrate their entrepreneurial skills with a small food shop on campus at Mindanao State University in Jolo.
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Home economics cooking materials contributed by AAI for elementary and high schools to assist entrepreneurial learning projects also used to sell cookies, cakes and steamed fish to help support their underfunded schools.
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Community leaders at Kasambuhan Village Peace Zone on property that is being considered as a future site for AAI/ Habitat for Humanity to build homes for demobilized guerillas and their families.
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Traditional weaving by women of Tausug tribe decorates wall of an AAI supported school library.
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Craftsman hand carves hardwood furniture in Jolo.
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Hardwood door handcrafted in Jolo by local craftsmen.
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Hand carved hardwood living room set in central Jolo.
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Student dancers entertain at Mohammad Tulawie Central Elementary School commencement ceremony.
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Bakud Elementary is a Model of Excellence School supported by AAI and California-based Books for the Barrio.
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Happy students attend festive Commencement and Recognition Day ceremony at Mohammad Tulwie Central Elementary School.
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