Osmeña wants to put up college for mountain barangays

CEBU, Philippines - Children from the mountain barangays will need not go to the downtown area soon just to get a college education, as colleges will be built in their midst.

This is what Cebu City South District Rep. Tomas Osmeña assured in his speech before the urban poor settlers in the upland barangay of Binaliw recently.

“Many people have a hard time going to college in the downtown area,” said Osmeña, adding that students from the mountain barangays spend more for their room rents, which is adding burden to their college expenses.

He said putting up “colleges sa kabukiran” will guarantee that even the poorest of the poor can get at least a two-year basic course of college education. He said this education will then help them get jobs like in the call center industry.

Osmeña said Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young, being an expert on education, will help him plan out this program and from there they will decide which of the city’s upland villages will first have these colleges.

He said he will have this dream project materialized once he sits as mayor again.  (FREEMAN)