A P500-MILLION school building is set to rise in the newly-inaugurated Golden Residences resettlement center in Barangay San Nicolas, Masantol town.

The building is a one-story classroom that will be funded by the National Housing Authority (NHA) as part of the new community it developed for the displaced residents from barangays San Nicolas, Bebe Anac and Sto. Niño.

NHA general manager Marcelino Escalada, Jr. said the facility aims to cater and provide convenience to the youth who will be relocating in the at the six-hectare lot.

“There will be 928 families that will soon be living here so that will also bring hundreds of children and youth who needed to go to school so an educational facility is necessary,” he said.

Mayor Danilo Guintu, meanwhile, said that a portion of the building will be used as a training center for the vocational courses that will be facilitated by the Don Honorio Ventura State University (DHVSU).

“We are partnering with DHVSU for their short vocational courses and we have offered this site as their training center and hopefully, we can produce more skilled workers soon,” he said.

Aside from the school building, Guintu disclosed that a wet and dry market, multi-purpose building, health station, day care facility, police community action center and tricycle terminal will also rise in the said community.

He said that the national and local government, through the assistance of Fourth District Representative Juan Pablo “Rimpy” Bondoc and Governor Dennis “Delta” Pineda, are ensuring the comfort and safety of the residents that will soon relocate to the center.

“We relocated them from their former houses, some of them were living there since birth so we wanted to make sure that they will have the same, if not better, comfort and security they had in the community where they came from,” Guintu said.