World Vision opens child-friendly spaces, facilities

MARAWI City ― As part of its Urban Child Protection Project (UCPP), the World Vision unveiled on Tuesday, August 10, the newly constructed playground and handwashing facility in Sikap Elementary School in Barangay Rapasun, this City.

Sikap Elementary School is one of the five schools in the City that received both a playground set and handwashing facilities for their students.

“Installing facilities like a playground is providing children the space to play and do unstructured psychosocial activities. It promotes not only the children’s mental health and rights to play, but it enhances as well the communities MH-PSS capacity as it provides space for identification and referral of CP-CBV cases and conduct of other services,” said World Vision Project Manager for Marawi Initiatives Adonis Casinillo in a message read by project coordinator Cecile Cenas during the inauguration ceremony.

Casinillo also said the installation of handwashing facilities is also important to promote the handwashing practice in the midst of the pandemic.

Moreover, he cited how schools become reliable partners in promoting nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene, and general health that even in the midst of a pandemic, it continually hosts different stakeholders as a venue for learning continuity, information dissemination, aid distribution, quarantine facility, among others.

Under the UCPP, the World Vision targets to turn over a playground with constructed or repaired handwashing facilities to five selected schools in the City. Such facilities were already unveiled at Cadayonan Elementary School in May this year.

Meanwhile, a playground in Dulay Elementary School and a handwashing facility in Bae Inomba Blo Bacarat Central Elementary School are set to be inaugurated soon under the Marawi Peace and Protection Project-Phase 3. (PIA-10)