Dear Mr. President:
First of all, may I thank you most sincerely for the immediate actions your Office has made on my behalf in several concerns I raised with various agencies, since 2011.
I found it quite remarkable that not a single letter I sent through copy to you has failed to elicit a response.
I write, this time directly and personally, about my concern that the CHED moratorium on certain college courses has stifled the government policy to help a great number of young people in the country craving to take up college.
I had a word on this with Dr. Patricia Licuanan in one open forum sometime ago, but I failed to touch her mind.
My college, which I founded in 1995 after returning as medial missionaries to Tanzania, is located in Camotes Islands between Cebu and Leyte. It takes 2-3 hours to reach by sea travel from either Ormoc or Danao City. It is more than 50-60 kilometers from the urban centers where a moratorium must be and should be applied. To attend college in either Cebu or Leyte you must be rich. To attend college in Camotes Islands, the cost is “a drop in the bucket†so to speak. Here, poverty is not a hindrance because we also serve.
We have graduated many poor students in education, commerce, criminology who are passing the Board and now gainfully employed everywhere. We answered a need. We want to continue answering the needs here, Mr. President.
Please help us convince CHED that while a moratorium is good for quality education, it disadvantages the poor living in distant islands whose only access to college education is the local schools. Please help us open doors of opportunity in Camotes Islands. Let us open other courses now in demand.
Thank you for your kind attention.
DR. Aguido A. Magdadaro
Mt. Moriah College since 1995
Poro, Cebu