Manila, Oct. 16 -- Following the permanent closure of 55 Salugpungan schools, a Palace official assured Wednesday that Salugpungan schools will be replaced with institutions that will truly ensure that indigenous children will have a much better future.
Undersecretary Severo Catura, of the Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat (PHRCS), was reacting to Bishop Roberto Mallari of San Jose, chairman of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Catechesis and Catholic Education, who lamented the closure of indigenous people's schools in the Davao Region.
"We owe the hope of our country and of our indigenous communities no less than this," Catura said in a statement sent to the Philippine News...