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There are also a lot of technologies regarding construction and infrastructure building all over the globe.

A company suggested that a prefabrication facility could benefit the Philippines in a great amount. A prefabrication line if building the materials in a facility before transferring it to the site of construction.

It is advantageous to the situation of Marawi since they are considered to be a "ghost town" for quite a while because of the lacking in resources and buildings for an area of work. It is best to build these materials on a safer environment for the safety of workers and better quality of the materials. The disadvantage of this is the transportation itself. It can be difficult to transport these materials to Marawi since the roads are also in chaos because of the war.

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A lot of Filipinos around the country has offered to help in rebuilding the city. A lot of reconstruction has been occurring in the area to bring back their homes and infrastructures that would home the public services that would be for the citizens.

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Rebuilding Marawi almost 4 years after the war

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Almost 4 years after the Marawi siege, a resident helps rebuild the city that he once knew, in the hopes that things will return to what they used to be before their lives - and homes - were shattered by war

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SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

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SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES

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Since the Marawi seige, and the city being Lanao Del Sur's capital, there were a lot of casualties in the area including their homes and available public services because of the war. Focusing on "SDG 11: SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND COMMUNITIES" would help the Maranaos to gain back their infrastructures.

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There are a lot of technological advancements around the world that could help in the production of agriculture but Philippines' being a third-world country, it is difficult for us to acquire such technologies.

If given an opportunity, a machine called WR-801 Multi-Function Hand Tractor could aid farmers in their productivity since this machine can do weeding, double-row tilling, rotavating, and furrow forming for corn fields and vegetable plots.

An advantage of this is to make work easier for the farmers and faster production of the products that they have to offer. For the disadvantage, there could be a poor maintenance of the machine and improper use because of the lack in knowledge of the farmers on how to use it. To address that, the machine-provider could give a training or a lesson to the farmers on how to use the said machine.

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Since Lanao del Sur is also rich in agriculture, specifically in rice, coconuts, and corn, they can use these natural resources as their food or their business which they can export to different cities and provinces in the Philippines. They are also surrounded with lakes which can be a source of seafoods.

This can lead to economic growth which can eliminate poverty and hunger in their families.

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Marawi City is the capital city of Lanao del Sur and has been the area where the Marawi seige or the war against the terrorist group, Maute.

There were a lot of casualties that were caused by the war. The families affected lost their homes and were evacuated to a safer residence but since poverty rose because of the war, many residents suffered from hunger since they lack resources for food.

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John Unson - Philstar.com

COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Hundreds of Maranao families affected by last year's hostilities in Marawi City received food from a humanitarian program addressing poverty in impoverished barangays.

Some of the recipient-families are residents of the hinterland Butig town in Lanao del Sur, ravaged by conflicts sparked by the hoisting there in 2014 of the black Islamic State flag by the Maute terror group.

Workers of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao-Bangsamoro Regional Inclusive Development for Growth and Empowerment, most known as ARMM-BRIDGE, also distributed food to families in Lanao del Sur's Picong, Balabagan, Madamba, Lumba-Bayabao, Balindong, Saguiaran, Mulondo, Butig and Ditsaan-Ramain towns this week.

David Ali, project manager of ARMM-BRIDGE, said Saturday part of their feeding initiative is to weigh children of beneficiary-families periodically to determine the impact of the activity.

He said 900 Maranao families received food supplies from ARMM-BRIDGE this week.

The ARMM-BRIDGE is focused on providing recipient villages in the autonomous region with four basic amenities --- food, shelter, clean water and electricity.

The ARMM-BRIDGE project management office in Cotabato City will expand in the coming weeks its dispersal of food rations to Maranao villagers in Piagapo, Lumbaca Unayan, Lumbayanague, Bubong Ramain, Kapai, Ganassi, Madalum, Masiu, Kapatagan, all in Lanao del Sur and in Marawi City.

The conflict-stricken Marawi City is the capital of Lanao del Sur.

The feeding thrusts of ARMM-BRIDGE targets what program planners and researchers call the "poorest of the poor" in isolated barangays in the autonomous region.

ARMM-BRIDGE workers have distributed food supplies to families in far-flung barangays in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi in separate operations early on.

The program is also constructing hundreds of core shelters for poor villagers in the ARMM's five provinces, whose recipients include now reforming former Abu Sayyaf militants who have surrendered and pledged allegiance to the Philippine flag.

Ali said workers monitor the weight of children of families receiving food supplies as part of a continuing evaluation process as basis for policy and operational directions.

The ARMM-BRIDGE, operating for more than two years now, is under the ministerial control of Gov. Mujiv Hataman, now in his second term as elected chief executive of the autonomous region.

The Hataman administration has earmarked P2.9 billion for the humanitarian interventions of ARMM-BRIDGE in different towns.

Norhaya Tomawis, 45, a resident of Barangay Baclayan Raya in Ditsaan Ramain, said Saturday her family is grateful to the ARMM-BRIDGE program for rationing food in remote barrios.

"It's a big help for us, poor Maranaos," she said in Filipino.

Nutrition experts and dieticians in the ARMM-BRIDGE have also been helping educate villagers on the importance of eating healthy foods, particularly by children, to ensure good health.

Besides rice, fresh eggs, powdered milk, protein-rich beans, cooking oil, iodized salt, brown sugar and coffee, the ARMM-BRIDGE also provide villagers with hygiene kits containing shampoo, bath soap, toothbrush and toothpaste.

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Lanao del Sur families receive food supplies from ARMM anti-poverty org

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John Unson - Philstar.com COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Hundreds of Maranao families affected by last year's hostilities in Marawi City received food from a humanitarian program addressing poverty in impoverished barangays. Some of the recipient-families are residents of the hinterland Butig town in Lanao del Sur, ravaged by conflicts sparked by the hoisting there in 2014 of the black Islamic State flag by the Maute terror group.

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Since Lanao Del Sur is one of the provinces in the Philippines that suffer extreme poverty over the last few years, focusing on "SDG 1: NO POVERTY" would aid in eliminating a lot of problems caused by poverty such as hunger, risks of diseases, unsanitary environment, and many more.

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Lanao Del Sur remains as one of the Philippines' poorest province with an incidence rate of 71%. It is mainly because of the long war that is happening within their area.

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Abundant in natural resources, what with Lake Lanao's 340-square kilometer area and fertile lands as far as the eye can see, the province of Lanao del Sur has every potential to become a food basket for the whole of Mindanao and the rest of the Philippines withal - but only if its agricultural sector is sustainably developed.

For sadly, Lanao del Sur has remained poor despite its valuable potential and is in fact considered to be the Philippines' poorest province with a poverty incidence of 71 percent. This regrettable state is mainly attributed to the breakdown of peace and order, which has plagued this part of the south for so long.

To comprehend what needs to happen for Lanao del Sur to realize its full potential, a look back at its peoples' history is in order.

Before the colonial period, Lanao had four important boundaries that held power in appointing a new sultan - Baka-yawan, Dalama, Madamba and Sawer. In appointing a new sultan, the permission from these four boundaries were needed to validate the position.

Impregnable by colonialism, Maranaos to this day pride themselves to have successfully resisted the successive forays of Spanish, American and Japanese encroachment as documented by how their men fought with kris, spear, and bow and arrow against the canons and rifles of the Americans in the legendary battles of Tamparan, Bayang, Sultan Gumander, Ganassi, Tugaya and Marawi City. The Japanese Imperial Army likewise failed as Maranaos gallantly asserted their freedom and distinct political identity in the Battle of Lanao.

It was in Malabang that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Jose Abad Santos was killed by the Japanese in a firing squad.

From one province to two

What used to be a whole Lanao, administratively part and a political unit of the Moro Province by virtue of Philippine Commission Act 787, was divided into two distinct provinces - Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte - on May 27, 1959 by virtue of Republic Act 2228. Lanao del Sur was officially chartered on July 4, 1959.

Lanao del Sur's political landscape went through a series of transformation. As a result of the peace settlement with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) under the Tripoli (Libya) Agreement during the Martial Law years, President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree 742, which included the province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Lanao del Sur constituents affirmed the inclusion of the province in ARMM during the plebiscite on Feb. 19, 1989.

Although its capital Marawi City refused to be included at first, it reconsidered its position and joined ARMM in 2001.

Lanao del Sur is composed of 39 municipalities and divided into two congressional districts, consisting of 1,159 barangay (villages).

Latest statistics show that the province has a total population of approximately 1.1 million out of a total 2.5 million Maranaos, where around 1.3 million are spread all over the country, mostly traders in urban areas.

Hope for bright future amid anarchy

Since its charter, politics in Lanao has been controlled by a few dynastic clans, where people have no choice but to be beholden to their patrons for survival. The anarchaic situation is characterized by rido or family feuds, kidnapping, carnapping, theft, gambling and illegal drugs. There is inadequate access to government's social services and economic development programs, which socioeconomic difficulties are nurtured by sketchy and poorly maintained road network brought about by neglect.

Those who love their birthplace just cry in silent pain as the condition of the national highway, particularly the Lake Lanao Circumferential Road, is deplorable when they know that term after term those in authority were given budget to finish the projects.

It is for this reason that leaders concerned of their province's development have banded together to help ensure the presence of the government in all the municipalities, including Marawi City.

"Leadership shift is the change that the good people of Lanao del Sur and Marawi City must collectively pursue with Allah's help," is the Development Podium of Lanao del Sur Alliance for Good Governance (LAGGO), adding, "Our future and our children and children's children well-being is today's Change."

LAGGO vows to help provide good governance in cooperation with concerned government offices and agencies "for the lack of it amounts to lack of governance." Another objective is to help reinstitute and restore peace and order and promote a just and peaceful society; as well as fight terrorism and extremism so the Marawi siege and Butig attacks will not happen again.

Conversely, the alliance commits to support the Bangsamoro Government and the shift to federal system of the national government.

"It is our pledge to look after the socioeconomic welfare of every man and woman, young and old, in the province of Lanao del Sur and Marawi City and form a united front to fight illegal drugs, criminalities, corruption and poverty of the people," LAGGO states.
PHOTOS BY J. GERALD SEGUIA

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Lanao del Sur should pursue cultural, economic and political revolution

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Abundant in natural resources, what with Lake Lanao's 340-square kilometer area and fertile lands as far as the eye can see, the province of Lanao del Sur has every potential to become a food basket for the whole of Mindanao and the rest of the Philippines withal - but only if its agricultural sector is sustainably developed.

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As of 2020 Consensus, the population in Lanao Del Sur grew at 1,195,518.

This represented 27.14% of BARMM, 4.55% of the Mindanao island group, and 1.10% of the Philippines.

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Found on the west of Northern Mindanao. Province of Bukidnon at its East, province of Maguindanao and Cotabato on its south, Illiana Bay on its west.

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Lanao Del Sur is a province that belongs to the BARMM or Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Most of the people that resides in Lanao Del Sure are called the Maranaos. The province consists of mostly Muslims which makes Marawi City, a city in Lanao Del Sur, as the only Islamic City of the South in the Philippines.