Information and news about the USAID Growth with Equity in Mindanao III (GEM 3) Project

Students of Waan National High School in Davao City explain their science experiment to visiting U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Goli Ameri. Khalid Lintangi, president of the school’s parent-teacher-community association (PTCA), looks on. The PTCA established the science laboratory with help from the Education Awareness Support Effort (EASE) project of USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program, which provides grants to match, peso-for-peso, funds raised by PTCAs to support education improvement projects such as libraries, science laboratories, computer laboratories and multi-media resource centers. The GEM Program is implemented under the oversight of the Mindanao Economic Development Council (GEM)