Tboli kids get new classrooms from World Bank

MAITUM, Sarangani (June 23, 2012) – With construction materials as backdrop, kids patiently wait for the program to start during the ground breaking ceremony of the three-classroom high school building at Wali Integrated School Wednesday, June 20. The project which costs P1,825,000 is funded by KALAHI-CIDDS: KKB with a P0.5 million counterpart fund from the provincial and municipal government units. Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan - Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services - Kapangyarihan at Kaunlaran sa Barangay widely known as KALAHI-CIDSS: KKB is the Philippine government's flagship poverty-alleviation project implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development through the financial support of the World Bank. The DSWD is now working to expand its KALAHI-CIDSS project to cover 8,000 barangays in 334 municipalities nationwide to extend the benefits of the program to more people. For more news and updates, please visit the Province of Sarangani . (Joylyn Ty/MAITUM INFORMATION OFFICE)