DepEd gets $1.5-M grant from Japan

Emiko Masaki, Social Sector Economist Southeast Asia Department, ADB; Pinky Aquino-Abellada, Chairperson, AGAPP; Hon. Toshinao Urabe, Ambassador of Japan; Bro. Armin Luistro, Sec. of Education; Kunio Senga, Southeast Asia Regional Director, ADB; Usec, Yolanda Quijano, Dep Ed; Cecile L.H.F. Gregory, Head, Office of Co-financing Operations, ADB

100 Pre-schools—all in a year`s work

IT SEEMED so ambitious when Pinky Aquino Abellada mentioned last year that the goal of the foundation she would be involved in was to build 100 pre-schools during President Noynoy Aquino’s first year in office. But true enough, AGAPP Foundation lived up to its boast of a hundred pre-schools from July 2010 to mid-June 2011, with the 100th built in Limay, Bataan. The focus on pre-schools