Lumad children visit city for first time

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (July 27, 2009) – Thirty Grade VI pupils from New Canaan and Kiangkos Elementary Schools, seeing the city for the first time, pose in front of KCC Mall of General Santos Friday, July 25, as one of their destinations in their educational tour. New Canaan and Kiangkos, a village community of the Blaan indigenous people who still practice their old tradition, are among the farthest communities in Alabel town where children have to walk for an hour from home to
school. (Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)