THE SM Group of Companies through SM Foundation turned over two school buildings in General Santos City as provided for in a previous memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Department of Education.

One of the school buildings turned over benefited the General Santos City Special Education Integrated School It is a one-story, two classroom building constructed in partnership with project partner SM Prime Holdings Inc. It is the 40th school building donated by SM to the government educational system.

The school building is provided with teachers’ tables and chairs, students’ desks, blackboards and toilet facilities.

SM also turned over textbooks and reading materials for students and the school library.

Another school building will go to Banisil National High School located eight kilometers from the heart of General Santos City. The school building handed over by SM is one-story, four-classroom edifice. Just like other school houses from SM, it comes complete with desks, blackboards, tables, chairs and toilet facilities.

Banisil National High School is a former annex school of General Santos City High School that started with only 98 first -year students temporarily housed at the multipurpose building of barangay Tambler, Project partners for this school building were SM Prime Holdings and BDO Foundation.