On Tuesday, the Department of Education (DepEd) listed a total of 226 public schools and 7, 169 learning materials that were damaged because of the world's most powerful tropical cyclone Super Typhoon Rolly with destructive winds and torrential rain.
The damaged schools are under 26 divisions in Regions 1, 2, 4-A (Calabarzon), 4B (Mimaropa), 5 (Bicol), 8 (Eastern Visayas), and Cordillera Administrative Region.
In these regions, the number of totally damaged classrooms is 138, the number of classrooms with major partial damage is 289, and the number of classrooms with minor partial damage is 609,
the DepEd said.
The estimated cost for reconstruction and rehabilitation for the damaged infrastructures amounts to PHP489.5 million.
Furthermore, the department reported 14,999 learners who take refuge in public schools which was converted as evacuation centers. The 869 public schools or 4,367 classrooms being used as evacuation centers are in the National Capital Region and Regions 1, 2, 3, 4-A, 4-B, 5 and 8.
DepEd said it has already mobilized the agency’s engineers and disaster risk reduction management coordinators to assess the infrastructure and non-infrastructure damages for response, rehabilitation, and recovery interventions.
DepEd records 226 public schools damaged by super typhoon Rolly
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