Goldberg leads turnover of new classrooms in Leyte

By Roel T. Amazona, Philippine News Agency PALO, Leyte, May 28 – United States Ambassador to the Philippines Phillip Goldberg lead on Friday the turnover ceremony of a two-storey 10-classroom building at Palo National High School, in Leyte. Philip S. Goldberg. Photo courtesy of manila.usembassy.gov   The school building is part of the 310 school-building-donation of the US government to the country’s rehabilitation efforts in areas devastated by super typhoon Yolanda that struck parts of Leyte and Samar islands on Nov. 8, 2013. The school building was designed to withstand magnitude of an 8.5 earthquake and typhoon with 360 kilometer per hour wind velocity. Each classroom is equipped with learning materials and ventilation to help students study in a conducive environment. The 10 classrooms are part of the 199 classrooms that were already constructed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Construction is now ongoing for 111 classrooms. [...]