Engineering Battalion-Korean Araw contingent partnership completes rehab of Baras Elementary School

From the Philippine Information Agency (Apr 21): Engineering Battalion-Korean Araw contingent partnership completes rehab of Baras Elementary School

The teachers and students of the Baras Elementary School expressed their gratitude for the completion of the rehabilitation of the school ready to be used next school year.

School principal Len Artiga thanked the Korean and Philippine soldiers who rehabilitated the school hit by Yolanda, for a period of 25 days, from March 11 to April 8, 2014.

She said the pupils can proudly say that their school was constructed because of the strong friendship between the Korean and Philippine Government  through their respective soldiers.

She said the school is lucky to have been chosen as one of the schools in Leyte to be rehabilitated by the joint team.

Surely, this help extended to them will forever be etched in the hearts of the pupils and the teachers, the principal said.

The said school rehabilitation was jointly undertaken by the Republic of Korea Joint Support Group led by its commander Colonel Lee Chulwon and the 546th Engineer Construction Battalion of the Philippine Army led by 1Lt. James Lowell P. Andaya.

The rehabilitation work included the repair of ceiling boards and jalousies, laying of CHB and painting of the entire school building.

The turnover of the rehabilitated school was attended by ROK Commander Col. Lee Chulwon, Monk Jung Woo, head of Korean Buddhist; 546 EBC and 543 EBC troops led by Lt. Col. Edgar Yerro, the commanding officer of 546EBC; Mrs. Len Artiga and Efren Santa Monico, the barangay chairman of Barangay Baras.

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