Synergeia is expanding in yet another municipality in Bohol province.  Following the lead of Baclayon and Maribojoc, the town of Loboc began its journey to further improve the delivery of basic education in its locality.  Last March 10, the local government, led by Mayor Leon Calipusan convened its first Education Summit with about 85 stakeholders in attendance. 

It’s a dream come true.  Synergeia has always worked for scaling up its work ARMM.  The education programs started with 5 LGUs in ARMM—and now there are 32 that are dedicated to reducing dropout rate and improving learning performance.  The number is growing because of the LGUs demonstrated success, and through word of mouth. 

It was indeed a “Thank God it is Friday”.  We reached several milestones during the Conference of the ARMM Mayors with the ARMM Regional Governor last Friday, February 10, 2012 in Davao City.

First, there are now 32 Synergeia mayors in ARMM.  Compare that with only 8 when we started the program in 2005.