Former war-torn village finally glimpses light; gradeschoolers get educational tools

Here's a brief success story on Sumesid.

A school in a former war-torn community has been brought into the 21st century with the installation of electricity and audio-visual facilities.

In the remote village of Liong, in the Philippine's southern province of Shariff Kabungsuan, the children are getting the chance to enter the high-technology age through a distance education learning program.

The Sumesid Elementary School, a former battlefield of Moro guerrillas and government troops in 2000, became the last in Barira to be connected to the solar power.

In 2006 schoolchildren started using audio-visual materials like TV set, DVD player and radio powered by electricity from solar panels installed by AMORE, and books provided by the ABS-CBN Foundation's E-Media program. With these materials, grade-schoolers – all 417 of them – now learn basic literacy and numeracy with ease.