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

Students of the Hadji Imam Banjal Elementary school in Manuk Mangkaw, Tawi-Tawi, crowd around the computer laboratory and home economics equipment purchased for their school through a partnership between their parent-teacher association (PTA) and USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program. More than 620,000 students across Mindanao, many of them in remote and underserved island schools, have benefited from mini libraries, home economics centers, science laboratories and other education aids acquired through their PTAs’ fundraising efforts, matched peso for peso by GEM’s Education Matching Grant Project (EMGP). 

Published in Manila Bulletin, March 27, 2011