Sustainability

Quality education is the best tool to fight poverty. Through scholarships and aid to deserving students, including students who are members of indigenous groups, we enable the young people with education. They can then find good job opportunities and support their families. These scholarships and other forms of aid include payment of tuition, stipend allowances and provision of school supplies and uniforms. 

We also had Education projects for the improvement of school facilities, provision of educational materials to schools, teachers’ training programs, and payment of teachers’ honoraria. 

At our Cagdianao Mine, we have provided free education and school materials to about 580 students from Barangay Hayanggabon. 

Other projects were: 

• Salaries for six (6) public school teachers in host and neighboring communities 
• Provision of school learning materials, supplies and equipment to nine schools from host and neighboring communities and 22 schools from non-impact mining communities 
• School-to-school campaign promoting knowledge in mining and 
• Sponsorship for inter-school educational competitions 
• Support for the Department of Education’s annual Brigada Eskwela