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USAID Office of Education Chief Thomas Crehan listens to new ARMM Education Secretary Dr. Hamid Barra after he presented USAID’s EQuALLS2 project to the Secretary on February 24, 2010 in Davao City. |
USAID reaffirmed its commitment to improve basic education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) under its EQuALLS2 project, during a briefing and consultation with new Department of Education ARMM Secretary Dr. Hamid Barra in Davao City on February 24, 2010.
Secretary Barra expressed eagerness to work with USAID in introducing reforms to improve the current state of the region’s education sector, now among the poorest in the country.
EQuALLS2 is training educators and implementing out-of-school children and youth programs in the region, where 60% of its efforts is directed, and engages communities to participate in local education improvement.
